PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Book after Jonah

6 Puts on a patch, perhaps 10 Wear’s partner 14 Yoga posture 15 When doubled, a Hawaiian fish 16 Solo for

Renee Fleming 17 Soda shop

offerings 18 Malevolent

smiles

20 Show horse ... of animation? 22 Nelson

Mandela’s org. 23 Have challah,

say

24 Snake with a

king variety 28 Hover

ominously 30 “Baloney!” 34 Traveled like a

monarch? 35 Rolling rock? 37 Place to get a late-night stack 39 Hydrogenated ___

40 Dark horse ... of literature? 43 Laddie’s turndown 44 Mortgage deal, for short 45 Ranger or Explorer 46 Fundamentals 48 Did so-so on the final

50 Ritalin target: Abbr.

53 Play matchmaker for 55 Where you may sense an intuition 57 Rower’s necessity

58 High horse ... of the NFL? 63 Slanted column? 66 Mushroom with a long, thin stem 67 Rose or Violet 68 Parisian papa 69 Like the air after a fire 70 British boys’ school 71 Pre-fry? 72 Students may cram for them

DOWN

1 The blue whale is the largest one 2 “Thumbsdown from me!” 3 Phone at another’s expense 4 Against 5 What you make in a hurry 6 Refines, as ore 7 Spot to hang Christmas lights 8 Riding crop, e.g. 9 Farm tower

10 Skeptical toward 11 Singer Grande, to fans 12 Behave in an ungodly fashion? 13 Owns 19 Vitamin retailer

21 Get the beer flowing 25 They give to banks 26 Jockey’s strap 27 Belt-making tool 29 Goat’s sound 31 Bandleader’s cry after “One, two, three,” maybe 32 “Bingo!” 33 Offspring of a wild canine 36 DVD player predecessor 38 West Bank inits.

40 Term of endearment 41 Bay Area hub 42 Vanguard offering, briefly 43 Rapper Lil ___ X 47 Without notice 49 “I concur” 51 Make the grade 52 Sci-fi robots 54 It may be in your step 56 Trick alternative 59 Playful bites 60 POTUS’

No. 2 61 Hose shade 62 First word in many a fairy tale

63 Uno, in English 64 “Stand” or “down” follower 65 Gloomy genre