PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 It’s got a priest covered 4 Blood of the
Greek gods 9 Paper with a crinkled texture 14 By way of 15 Rain- bearing
clouds 16 From a certain
grain 17 Tree with hard,
tough wood 18 Made oneself
known 20 Bar mitzvah
officiant 22 Trees from which one can take a bow? 23 Vespa, famously 26 Gives in, as to
pressure 31 Shakespeare’s king of the fairies 33 Thing important to a micromanager 34 They have
young’uns 36 One of the
Wayans 38 Place with big
Bucs 39 Need a backrub, e. g. 41 French composer Erik 43 “... ___ ye be judged” 44 Belt holders 46 Spanish “black” 48 Become blond
overnight 49 Brownies in
bunches 51 Tremble from
the cold 53 More fidgety 55 Started one of
18 holes 58 Freeway
off- ramp 60 Active cowboy,
sometimes 61 Where relatives branch out? 67 Prefix with “fix”
or “test” 68 Have a crush
on, e. g. 69 U. S. Postal
Service symbol 70 Large
Australian bird 71 Footloose one 72 Piped up 73 Get ___ of
( trash)
DOWN
1 Declares
as true 2 Pale purple 3 Giant panda’s
treat 4 Stirred up 5 Spyorg. 6 “Very
interesting ...” 7 Not buck
the system 8 More over-abundant 9 Body armor for
the trunk ( var.) 10 Like unprocessed data 11 Pilot’s guess 12 Mph part 13 Conclusion 19 Hadn’t repaid
yet 21 Move up and down repeatedly 24 Studied times 25 Holy ___
Empire 27 Latin ist- shortening abbr. 28 “So Matthew McConaughey says to me ...” sayer, e. g. 29 A bit buzzed 30 Patio flooring surface, sometimes 32 Piano output 34 Mediterranean
republic 35 Oak, in a nutshell? 37 It falls daily but never breaks 40 Classic narrative poetry 42 Great Lake
name 45 Pitched
a pitch 47 Supervise 50 Like many
head- turners 52 Tokyo, once 54 Things that are
custom made? 56 One quadrillionth of a meter 57 Psychoanalyst
Sigmund 59 Pie hole
relative 61 Word with
“club” or “mail” 62 “Without
further ___ ...” 63 Pop lover? 64 Nest egg part,
often 65 Type of maniac or trip 66 Big game?