PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Giving one? 6 Teamed, as oxen 11 ___-o’-ninetails 14 Busy place in Chicago 15 Powerful adhesive 16 Miner’s discovery 17 Prison-made license plate, e.g.?

19 Bit of cold in the air 20 Barks up the wrong tree 21 Hair snarl 23 Kangaroo’s title? 27 Feeling of guilt

28 Rub raw 29 Certain military member 30 Peeks 31 Spock’s forte 32 Eavesdrop 35 Death penalty alternative 36 Trig function 37 Place for a nursery rhyme owl 38 Camera type, initially 39 Auricular 40 Thomas Jefferson, for one 41 Happens 43 “Wuthering Heights” writer 44 Mapmaker’s name 46 Sinks like a rock 47 What auction winners do 48 Calla lily family 49 Seven on some clocks 50 Molded by a money player? 56 Overnight establishment 57 Indoor trampolines? 58 Big-time happening 59 1ofa carton’s dozen 60 What doors allow

61 Some

muscles, cut

DOWN

1 ER VIP 2 “What a discovery!” 3 Indian flatbread 4 Tolkien creature 5 Enjoys a favorite book 6 Crave

7 ___ for (selects) 8 Garden pond fish 9 Suitable for all audiences 10 Bright and energetic 11 Moving forward to vote? 12 Seed covers 13 Cone-shaped quarters 18 New York canal 22 Persona ___ grata 23 Umpire’s various shouts 24 Bubbling 25 Supporting AND funding? 26 Snatch 27 Was obviously furious 29 Red Sea notable 31 British transport

33 “La ___” (Camus novel) 34 Eastwood’s TV character 36 Witches’ kettle 37 1,000 millennia (var.) 39 Exceed in importance 40 Played a Pearl set 42 Trucker’s sleeper 43 Vague image 44 Flick 45 Prompting on-air talent 46 Pedestrian, as writing 48 Whence to admire from? 51 Poet’s adverb 52 Genesis VIP 53 Benicio ___ Toro 54 Dynamite relative 55 Some extra periods