PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 New Year’s

shower 9 Pressure unit 15 Harmful

precipitation 16 Plaza Hotel

girl 17 Made

comments 18 Becomes less

intense 19 Key near

Caps Lock 20 Indian

garment 21 Emulate a

parrot 22 Author Blyton or Bagnold 24 Improvise 26 Certifiable? 30 Oklahoma

city 34 Having fits of laughter with “clot,”“sun” and“van” 38 “Tres ___” (“very well,” in French) 39 State of

excitement 40 Took a

header 42 Crumbly

fertilizer 43 It’s full of

words 45 Various metal

wastes 47 Mammal’s

coat 48 PreNovocain application 50 Messy person 54 Early arrival

( var.) 57 Midterm,

for one 61 Rowboat

necessity 62 Matures on

the vine 63 Freezer forerunner 65 Star’s gobetweens 66 The things on

the house? 67 Notorious

African fly 68 Most

delicious DOWN 1 A la ___ ( menu phrase) 2 Majority of

Earth 3 Rain clouds 4 Rx overseer 5 Goofs 6 Bangladeshi

currency 7 Stadium section 8 Harrison’s

archaeologist 9 Cultured gem 10 Even though 11 Suds 12 Write a ticket

for 13 On the briny 14 Old- style “for

fear that” 23 The disclosing of a secret with “vile,”“dent” and“gum” 25 Part of DDS 27 Some Greek

letters 28 Croat or Serb,

e. g. 29 With a slanted direction 31 McCann or

Wallace 32 Prophet 33 Artist

Warhol 34 Overhead

engine parts 35 Type of exam or vaccine 36 “... ___ lender be” 37 Big horn 41 Coffee container 44 Guarantee or

notarize 46 Work

periods 49 “Steppenwolf” author Hermann 51 Comic Anderson 52 Desert rest

stops 53 French

coastal city 54 Word attached to “fall” 55 Big semi

trucks 56 Sword that’s

blunted 58 Pale tannish

color 59 Have the look

of 60 Not us 64 Japanese belt