PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Creative field 4 Certain parents, in Liverpool 8 Cinderella’s sweepings 13 “Hamilton” showdown 15 Bhutan locale 16 Facebook upload 17 “Tickle Me” doll

18 Word that can precede or follow “wishing” 19 Wee bits 20 Assignment for a Tex-Mex chef-intraining? 23 Arborist’s specialties 24 Used to be 28 Future fry 31 Calm and composed 32 Withdrawal device, briefly 35 Watts of “The Impossible” 38 Celestial bear 39 One who regularly buys and sells fixerupper houses? 43 Hawaiian island where Nicole Kidman was born 44 Moved slowly (into) 45 Sweden’s flagship carrier 46 Loosened, like laces

49 Porridge ingredients, perhaps 51 Ten lords’ activity 53 Ancient fabulist 57 Aquarium mensch? 61 “Pride ___ before ...” 64 2012 film set in Tehran 65 Potted plant’s base 66 Baby food’s consistency 67 Yarn 68 Obstetrician’s prefix for “gram” 69 Ringo of The Beatles 70 Do a school activity? 71 Boggy place

DOWN

1 Quite skilled 2 Stick with many marks 3 Where Arizona’s Sun Devil Stadium is

4 Bryn ___ College 5 Computer owner 6 About eight furlongs 7 Burst of artillery

8 Per item 9 Made an appearance 10 ___ under the collar

11 It’s within three other Greek letters 12 Sailor’s emergency signal 14 Bounds along 21 College sports channel 22 “Walk-___ welcome” 25 Gets bent out of shape? 26 Flummoxed 27 Largest U.S. retailer of the 1980s 29 Persian Gulf nation: Abbr. 30 Ready to serve 32 In violation (of )

33 A/C brand whose name sounds like a vehicle 34 Maestro Zubin 36 NYC transit org. 37 “Should that be true ...”

40 Person who makes clever remarks 41 “Glee” star Michele 42 Luggage attachment 47 “No preference” 48 “CSI” molecule 50 Creator of the Whos

52 Tiny flying pests 54 Light parody 55 Share a stance 56 Traffic cone 58 Take from a deck 59 Wrinkly fruit 60 Limerick, for one 61 Map app alternative 62 Softball umpire’s cry 63 Washday brand