PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Terrific!” 6 Dietary supplement 10 Botch 14 Woolly Peruvian animal 15 Great Fire of Rome emperor 16 Go up 17 Loosened, as a knot 18 Read Braille 19 Luau instruments, for short 20 Certain a cappella performers 23 Bea busybody 24 Scammer’s scheme 25 Address for a queen 26 Cocktail vessel 31 Sacrilegious 34 Decimal points 35 “My ___ tells me ...” 36 Like the score 7-7 37 Close to the ground 38 Shimmer makeup mineral 39 Chickenking connector 40 Biodiesel, e.g. 42 Just swell 44 German fish delicacy 47 Hatcher or Polo 48 Same-old grind 49 Employee of Santa 52 Cable company’s encryption, or what connects both words in 20-, 26- and 44-Across 57 “Regretfully ...” 58 Gushing review 59 Kiss-up 60 ___ guy (reliable sort) 61 Where things get heated? 62 Mother’s brother, say 63 Eve’s first home 64 Desire 65 Pumpkin eater of rhyme
DOWN
1 Batter’s dry spell 2 Of a forearm bone 3 Rice wetland 4 Dubai bigwig 5 Extreme 6 One in a onesie 7 Revolvingspool device 8 Mine metals 9 Kind of hold’em 10 Penny-wise 11 Amazingly effectively 12 Word before “fee” or “ID” 13 “Porgy and ___” 21 Not for the squeamish 22 Old horses 26 Reddit admin 27 Teen heartthrobs 28 Without delay
29 “No __ luck!” 30 Time at a hotel 31 Bryce Canyon locale 32 River through Egypt 33 60-100 bpm, normally 37 Shin’s place 38 Incensed 40 Unlikely to sag 41 “Line” over the eyes
42 +
43 Savor a compliment 45 It may be hard to listen to 46 Passionate 49 Pass, as a statute 50 Gravy server 51 Advertising handout 52 Wise person 53 Lump of dirt 54 Mauna Loa flow 55 Unvarying 56 “I’m ___!” (“See ya!”)