PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lively dance 4 Evade 9 Fruit-filled pastries 14 Hullabaloo 15 “Raining cats and dogs,” for one 16 Hawaiian greeting 17 ___ C, aka Sporty Spice 18 Seedy breakfast option (unscramble letters 6 to 11 in this answer) 20 Negative press, informally 22 Buy time 23 Important stretch

24 Not worth arguing about 26 Started disliking, with “on”

28 “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” actress (3 to 7) 33 Physique, briefly 34 Erotic poetry muse 35 Does some housecleaning 39 Supportive garments 41 Whitney Houston’s “I’m ___ Woman” 43 Conceal, as an odor 44 Speak off the cuff

46 Made more bearable 48 “Woo-hoo!”

49 “The show that made country music famous” (5 to 10) 52 French fashion house 55 Women’s rights icon Alice 56 Juice box brand 57 White House No. 2s 61 Drizzle with ranch, say 64 Community with a shared cultural background (5 to 9) 67 Schumer or Poehler

68 Get a move on 69 “Haters ___ hate” 70 Space heater? 71 Ostentatious 72 Watch stealthily 73 Abbreviated list ender

DOWN

1 Doorframe part 2 Metaphorical lightbulb 3 One of four won by Simone Biles in Rio 4 Lose the threads? 5 Poem of tribute

6 Insult 7 Animal that has kids 8 Jane Austen heroine 9 One might cover an alien abduction

10 In the style of 11 “I read you,” on a radio

12 In that place 13 Healthy side dish 19 Otherwise 21 Old-timey curse 25 Pulled apart 27 E pluribus ___ 28 “Dancing Queen” band 29 British noble 30 “Nevermore” speaker 31 Lieu 32 Body’s trunk 36 Politeness reminder 37 Alexander I, for one 38 Vodka in a blue bottle 40 Aries or Gemini 42 Website with many bad reviews 45 “The soul of wit”

47 Like an emotionless comic delivery 50 “Match Game” host Baldwin 51 Couple’s possessive 52 “The Queen’s Gambit” game 53 Unforeseen snag 54 Sound preceding “Bless you” 58 Some are softboiled

59 The handkerchief in “Othello,” e.g. 60 PlayStation maker 62 Dirty literature 63 Align

65 At this moment 66 Card game similar to Crazy Eights