PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

39 1 Two-___ (ballroom dance) 5 Bad-news

child 9 French clergyman's title 13 Novelist Caleb

or singer Vikki 14 Top-rated

group 16 Fine pajama

material 17 Shortened version of a written work 19 Not made up 20 Saskatchewan

city 21 Omitted, as a

syllable 23 Wise Biblical

king 24 Book jacket bit 25 Business end

of a pen 26 Guys pursue

'em 27 Tumultuous

quarrel 30 Abates 33 200 milligrams, to a jeweler 34 Prefix with

"gram" 35 Costello or

Gehrig 36 Picnic take

alongs 38 "___ now or never!" "No, that's not a typo" 40 Acted human? 41 Alphabet

quartet 42 Animal on the

Michigan flag 43 Clam and

onion 44 Dish eaten with the fingers "The Wonder Years" years 48 Corner store owners "In spite of that ..." 54 Suspicious looks "The ___ Piper of Hamelin" 56 Way to kick a habit "... ___ the wild blue yonder" 59 Legally old enough "Billy Budd" captain 61 Mindy of "The Facts of Life" 62 In the hay, so

to speak 63 Abbr. in many

job titles

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60 DOWN 1 Frauds 2 Strictly

forbidden 3 Swashbuckler

Flynn 4 Attica and San

Quentin 5 Illegal entry 6 Word with "candle" or "numeral" 7 With a fresh

twist 8 Original Amendments count 9 Moving busily

about 10 Noodlehead 11 A primary

color 12 ___ out a living (barely scraped by) 15 Outstanding, as a performance 18 Moore of "A Few Good Men" 22 Commits a

deadly sin 24 Didn't keep

secret 26 Hurricane harbingers "I'm ___ your tricks" 29 Garden stinger 30 "... or ___!" 31 Cook, as

lobsters 32 Reason to get braces Military group

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33 36 Surrenders,

as territory 37 Part of the VenezuelaColombia border 41 Daughter of

Jupiter 44 Attached with

sticky stuff 45 Pearl Harbor's

island 47 ___ a high note (finish well) 48 Mosquitolike

critter 49 Dick and Jerry,

the Van ___ 50 Dukes and

earls 51 Thus far 52 Tale on a

grand scale 53 Chianti, in

Chianti 54 Excess body fat "Son ___ Preacher Man"

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