PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Thin smoke streak

5 Ooze

9 A question of possession

14 Not out of, U- turn

15 Jessica of a “Fantastic” film

16 Sitcom’s forte

17 One’s establishment

20 Use, as plates

21 Half- hitch? Almost

22 Bar shot, sometimes

23 Fixer of the four- footed

26 Under the weather

27 First to marry while president

29 Drank like a boxer

34 Online client

37 Barbershop action

39 Goatlike antelope

40 Make plans to acquire

43 Feather in a cap

44 Like some sushi

45 Lack of intensity

46 Blunder

48 Aired “The Flintstones”

50 Common article

52 Costa del ___

53 Surefooted creature

56 Sheep owners, at times

61 Stored ( with “set”)

63 Do more than retreat

66 Dined at home

67 Run- down urban area

68 “True ___”

69 Defeats

70 Common column no. 2

71 Is a bench rider

DOWN

1 Squeegee

2 Bit of dental work

3 Make

comments

4 Spanish little

5 ___ Miguel,

Azores

6 Fairy- tale creature

7 Periods of decline

8 St. ___ Girl ( suds)

9 Neck injury

10 Babe counterpart

11 Sign of doom

12 Rating a C

13 Start with “while,” old

18 Covet

19 Window part

24 “Stop that or ___!”

25 Feeling pressure

27 Defeat but good

28 Stage item

30 Plate for Eucharist

31 Upright tower? No

32 Stars have them

33 Native like Hamlet

34 Circular deliverer

35 Money yielding pitch

36 Holder of notions

38 Coin hills

41 Hydrogen’s two

42 Greek sandwich

47 “Boy, is it hot!”

49 “Why is it always me?”

51 Surrealist pioneer

53 Goodweather clouds

54 Own up to

55 Hospital undertakings

56 Big block of granite

57 Completely dislike

58 Darting organs

59 Mine way

60 Seafood selection

62 Droops

64 Sister, really

65 Bad ___, Germany