PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Old proverb 4 Electrically versatile 8 Pile up 13 Lead-in to “angle” or “age” 14 Sandal holder
16 “48 Hrs.” star Nick 17 Vinegar complement 18 Soporific poem for summer afternoons? 20 Meat rater: Abbr.
22 They make many connections at work 23 Rodent not worried about individual glory? 26 Mani/pedi target 27 Small, fast fish
32 A boot may attach to one 34 Comics punch sound 38 Mississippi feeder 39 Results of clothes going unwashed for too long?
43 Jai ___ 44 Back burner’s place
45 “___ your words!” (preschool scolding) 46 River-mouth formations 49 Periods 51 Liver-based French crackers?
57 Sale type with huge discounts 61 Simple fastener 62 “Pound! Pound! Pound!”? 65 Genes material 66 Sooner State residents 67 Goddesses of the seasons 68 Archaic contraction 69 Like the Tudors, originally 70 “Auld Lang ___” 71 Thespian who makes this puzzle’s theme entries corny
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1 “I’m a little teapot/Short and ___” 2 Come up 3 Feral creature 4 Floor wood that can look whitish 5 El station letters 6 Child’s first responder, informally
. 7 Places to make
s’mores
. 8 Big Turkish city . 9 Chandon’s champagne partner 10 Dog food brand 11 Mix, as cocoa 12 Brief intervals 15 Foot expert? 19 Authority, to hipsters 21 Org. led by an M.D. 24 Scenic walk 25 Banned apple spray 28 “Vive le ___!” 29 Increment of 0.001
30 Half of zwei 31 “The Bachelorette” flower 32 Roe source 33 Trendy smoothie vegetable 35 Afternoons, briefly 36 No longer fashionable 37 Intl. mercantile group 40 “Bottomless” hole 41 Claim confidently 42 Trillion: Prefix 47 All over again 48 Go up fast 50 Checkup sounds 52 Creep (along) 53 Amazon speakers 54 Noted San Francisco boulevard 55 Craze
56 Tic
57 Mess offering 58 Michigan or Ontario 59 “___ and the Detectives” (children’s book) 60 Iowa college town 63 Palindromic Bobbsey twin 64 Letter-shaped shirt