PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Certain club 5 Like an old sofa or bad oatmeal 10 Fail to hit 14 Word with

“skirt” or “cam” 15 Demote

or humble 16 Peruvian

empire builder 17 Started up and

ran 18 Furthest from

the best 19 Mailbox open

ing 20 Up- tempo thing for a soldier? 23 With much

beef fat 24 Prevent from doing something 25 Message written in secret code 28 Conclusion for

“rough” 30 City in

Norway 31 Enjoy,

as praise 33 Common seat

for toddlers 36 Down- tempo title for a Wild West shooter? 40 “Excellent” sidekick in a comedy film title 41 City in

Georgia 42 Pressing agent 43 Sharing word 44 One- eighth of

a circle 46 Certain Arab 49 Dusky brown

ish gray 51 Up- tempo way the boss likes work done? 57 Au pair’s

responsibility 58 Bizarre 59 Song sung solo at the Met 60 Word after “as” in a letter closing 61 “___ we meet

again” 62 Sound of a

second hand 63 Current events

and such 64 Omits 65 Printing

supplies

DOWN

1 Flightless Aus

sie birds 2 Certain speech

impediment 3 Deep ___ bend

( exercise) 4 Attraction at a circus or carnival 5 Attorney 6 Depth- charge avoider of WWII 7 Tie the knot 8 Barely audible

“Hey!” 9 Mysterious sighting in Tibet 10 Intentionally taken in the wrong direction 11 Arm of a larger

body of water 12 Twenty years 13 Mythical horned creature 21 Kind of

process 22 Parkinson’s

drug 25 Go for, in the

marketplace 26 Escape in

the sea? 27 Move like a

pachyderm 28 What a sci- fi weapon will do 29 Attila the ___ 31 Cut into a surface with acid 32 “Long ___, in a

galaxy far ...” 33 Turkish

currency 34 River of the

Bard 35 Confined ( with

“up”) 37 Communicate

via laptop 38 ___ fly ( base

ball term) 39 Well- read

people 43 Comes in 44 European

blackbirds 45 PC’s brain

center 46 Much more than sometimes 47 Iffy

contraction? 48 Like a crookedly hung picture 49 Frutti go- with 50 Taking ___ down memory lane 52 Some common

pronouns 53 Type of bed 54 Home of Irish

poets? 55 Work a

lollipop 56 Flaps one’s

gums