PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Drifts, as a scent 6 Unwelcome inbox filler 10 Window molding
14 Greek assembly place 15 RC drink 16 (I’m not a cowardly lion!) 17 Remember past November races? 20 Sinclair who wrote “The Jungle” 21 Albuquerque Isotopes’ baseball league 22 Approves
24 Jot down minimum temperatures? 30 Bob Marley genre 33 Opposite of WNW 34 Stud horse, to many foals 35 Saint for whom the Russian alphabet is named 36 Ship’s bell sound 38 Superman foe Luthor 39 Appease Xbox users? 42 Fraternity T 43 Very overweight 44 Mountain ridge (EATER anagram) 46 WNBA game airer 48 Survived in musical chairs 49 “Just be patient” 50 Leave lab animals in a maze? 53 Chemical suffix with ox54 “Huh?!”
55 ___ candle (firework) 58 Put bosses’ pictures in a slideshow? 65 Dutch guilder’s replacement 66 Superman partner Lane 67 Actress ___ Michelle Gellar 68 Jack who played Sgt. Friday 69 Inscribe into metal
70 “Go ahead,
ask”
DOWN
1 Major
conflict 2 Information ___ 3 Market research panels 4 Pitfall 5 Shaker contents 6 Part of an act 7 Ilhan Omar or Kamala Harris, briefly 8 Tankard contents
9 ’90s dance craze 10 Legal drama events 11 Pooh pal in a blue shirt 12 “Moonraker” author Fleming 13 ___ Butterworth’s 18 Oral history
19 Tiny bit 22 Mordor warrior 23 Jingling pocket item 25 Piano relative 26 Missouri tribe 27 Plant concerning to environmentalists? 28 Took away by force 29 Explicit song subject, perhaps 31 Word before “rummy” or “fizz”
32 Too 36 Translucent 37 FBI guy 40 Part of a West Point course? 41 Historical period 42 Broadcaster Koppel 45 Barnyard mama 47 Dissatisfied worker’s desire 49 “The Heat ___” (Glenn Frey song) 51 Baseball scoreboard letters 52 Wreck, as a hotel room 56 Spinnaker supporter 57 Food thickener 58 Hymnalholding seat 59 Regret 60 Sphere 61 Tyke
62 It picks things up when it’s hot 63 Smash (into) 64 ___/her pronouns