PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Silver of FiveThirtyEight 5 Restroom,

briefly 8 Dalmatian

mark

12 Wet, melty

snow

14 Singer Amos

or Kelly

15 Had on 16 Short time

out?

18 Senate staffer 19 A liar may

spin one 20 Top-shelf 21 Response to “You’re a liar!” 23 Programmer’s problem 26 Scribbles hastily 27 Capitol insiders 28 “Preach!” 30 Port-au-Prince locale

32 ___ Gala (annual NYC event) 35 Pokemon imperative, or hint to 16-, 23-, 45-, and 56-Across 39 “Special” or “covert” follower 40 Standards 41 Bana of “Troy” 42 31-Down

insert 43 Shot that uses the backboard

45 It’s tossed after a nuptial ceremony 51 Disinclined (to) 52 Home, in Hidalgo 53 “___ the season ...” 55 Palm starch 56 Unanticipated piece of good fortune 59 Eve’s partner 60 Extreme angers 61 Mimic’s gift 62 Julia’s role in “Ocean’s Eleven” 63 Short ___ sweet 64 Dreary color

DOWN 1 “Don’t open in the office” letters 2 Soothing

creams 3 Powerful plane engines 4 Winter hrs. in Boston 5 Solitary sort 6 Animal pairs’ boat 7 Germanic invader of Rome 8 Hindu wise men 9 “Your ___ being?” 10 Surgeon, informally 11 Braces’ places 13 Marriott competitor 14 Fey of “SNL” 17 Bowls over, say

22 “Kate and ___” (’80s sitcom) 24 Wingdings, for one 25 “Beowulf ” and “The Aeneid” 28 In the past 29 Beatles hairdo 30 Start to go? 31 PIN-entering place 32 Sales specialist 33 Giant Manning 34 Mom’s spe-

cialty, briefly 36 Diarist Nin 37 Julius Caesar’s first wife 38 Restaurant window posting

42 They go in old PC trays

43 In use, as a phone line 44 Jordan’s only port 45 Attended 46 Give the slip 47 Impressionist Edgar 48 Secretly looped in 49 Sturdy shade trees 50 Princess party crown 54 Vodka brand 57 Large decorative vase 58 Dungeons and Dragons genre, for short