PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sore feet, in slang 5 Bygone Russian ruler 9 Familiar places of comfort 14 Almondshaped 15 Tingle that irritates 16 A Muse 17 Proofreader’s instruction 18 Pasture female 19 Correct 20 Sprout up 23 Former Japanese capital 24 Keats work 25 Gilligan’s stranding place 28 Brief expression of a guiding principle 30 Ramshackle, as a watermelon? 33 Deception 34 Hinny’s kin 36 “Long ___ and far away ...” 37 Composes 38 Place to go when hacked 42 Face- to- face exam 43 River rodent 44 Tentative taste 45 Last half of a cocktail? 46 Hebrew letters 48 Word with “human” or “alien” 52 Treeless plain 54 Shed tool 56 Negative link 57 What nerds have 61 Low, dull impact sound 63 Subordinate of a marquis 64 Capital of Latvia 65 Insect catching bird 66 Liver spread 67 It gives the eye its color 68 Ascended, as from a grave 69 Technical school ( abbr.) 70 Walking stick
DOWN
1 Old bumper car trademark 2 Bite off too much? 3 Awkward bloke 4 Killed, as a dragon 5 Hardly outgoing 6 Tent securers 7 Farm measure 8 Ostrich look- alike 9 Joan of Arc’s offense 10 College at Oxford 11 Another college at Oxford 12 Suffix for some ordinal numbers 13 Drunkard 21 Fit to be tied? 22 Wives of avid sports fans, facetiously 26 Last digit in a price, often 27 “Plaines” leader 29 Asian weight unit 31 “Planet of the Apes” setting 32 Bad attribute of many a prima donna 35 DiMaggio’s 56 games, e. g. 37 Prop for Sherlock Holmes 38 German “Mrs.” 39 Beautiful arcs 40 It’s passed for funds 41 Slander relative 42 Legendary Giant Mel 46 In need of a good fixing 47 Some summer attire 49 A Gandhi 50 Something to knock some sense into? 51 Bribe, in slang 53 Gifted one? 55 Forest fledgling 58 Foreign Legion headwear 59 Palindromic Indian bread 60 Clapton of “Layla” fame 61 EMT’s skill 62 Flowery gift