PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bird known for thievery, briefly

4 Soft- palate attachment

9 Not appropriate or suitable

14 Roth plan

15 Banking expert?

16 Workplace for some clowns

17 Nothing at all

18 Preparing for Thanksgiving dinner?

20 Like an improperly hung picture

22 Gin- flavoring fruit

23 Female inheritor

26 Professor’s job security

30 Nervous ___ ( worrisome person)

32 Plays a guitar

34 Clothing attachment

36 Yoga position

38 Agitation

39 Bonneville Flats locale

41 Wearing a hidden microphone

43 Poker payment

44 Investment firm T. ___ Price

45 Spectacular stars 47 “Vandal” suffix

48 Damaged

51 River through Wales and England

53 Bobcats’ relatives

55 Backs out

58 Bit of this and a bit of that

60 Campaign manager?

61 Declining to draw

67 Become mature

68 Middle Eastern rice dish ( Var.)

69 Wear away

70 Ball prop

71 Barks sharply

72 Uses an acetylene torch

73 Botch something up

DOWN

1 Washington the blues legend

2 Questions do it

3 Rudely implying “forget it”

4 Abrupt increase

5 Seven on a grandfather clock

6 Consultants’ center?

7 A great deal

8 See 20- Across

9 Like some requests 10 Silent assent

11 Hue and cry

12 Sermon seating

13 Tare factor

19 “Nay” and “uh- uh”

21 Before, poetically

24 Like a snail’s pace

25 Play a set with the band

27 ___ Major (“Big Bear” constellation)

28 Biden, to Obama

29 Gives off

31 Common Market money

33 Part of a plant

34 Artificial grass

35 Coral island

37 Dissolve, as ties

40 Felled, as a small tree 42 Mr. Letterman

46 Government upper houses

49 Book of Moses

50 Place for cold cuts

52 U. S. flag color

54 Muscular “swine” anagram

56 Like beavers, it’s said

57 Look with a curled lip

59 Grimm villain

61 Undercover infiltrator

62 Bit of men’s formalwear

63 What a monopolist wants

64 Brief lie- down

65 D. C. dealmaker

66 Do simple

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