PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “I Do” singer Lisa 5 Purpose 8 Brown spot? 14 *Humorist Bombeck (circle letters 2 and 3)

15 Hot off the

presses 16 Tennis great

Andre

17 Out of

the wind 18 **Student’s respite

(5 and 6) 20 Carrot’s cousin 22 Oil grp. 23 *Genetic letters

(2 and 3) 24 Knoxville sch. 26 Pass over 30 Stevenson of ’50s politics 32 **Soldier’s denial

(4 and 5) 35 Dogfish Head brew 36 “Judge me by my size, do you?” speaker 37 Alps, e.g.: Abbr. 38 Justification 40 Tasteless sorts, or a hint to each starred group of circled letters 43 Some believers 45 Start to “starter” 46 Taunt

49 It may be framed 50 ***Game with rooks (1 and 2) 52 Eddie Van ___ 53 ___ Mawr 55 Choice word? 57 **** Winter D.C. setting (1 and 2) 58 Bug-eyed 61 Rashly 63 ***AC controller (5 and 6) 67 ___ Xtra (soda) 68 Zany

69 I, on a clock 70 **** No aristocrat (2 and 3) 71 Pizza party leftovers 72 Fashionable initials

73 Lug around

DOWN

1 *Quadrennial occurrence (3 and 4) 2 Universal Studios Florida site 3 Dorothy’s destination 4 *Sweethearts, in modern lingo (3 and 4) 5 Ill-suited 6 Cobras and such 7 Female sheep 8 Dogpatch cartoonist Al 9 “A Death in the Family” author 10 **Call before “Polo!”

(4 and 5)

11 Last Greek consonant 12 G.I. entertainers 13 Punk rocker Vicious 19 **Ages and ages (2 and 3) 21 Rapa ___ (Easter Island) 25 What a fool makes 27 Launch facility 28 Wall St. debut 29 Beachgoer’s goal 31 Contented sounds 33 Tehran’s land 34 Theologian’s subj.

37 Go well together

39 Bit of pond scum 41 Abbr. after a comma 42 Sarajevo residents 43 Small amount 44 Mess up

47 Greatest chance 48 **** African site of a 1976 rescue (4 and 5) 51 ***Brain scans, for short (2 and 3) 52 Snicker syllable 54 ***Drug cops (1 and 2) 56 Recon mission aim 59 Future MBA’s hurdle

60 “My bad!” 62 **** Datebook entry, briefly (1 and 2) 63 Network for cinephiles 64 Laugh syllable 65 End of Yale’s URL 66 Kind of poodle