PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Desert haven
6 “Door number 1, 2 or 3?”
11 Conducted
14 Moan and
groan
15 Main artery
16 A third of tri
17 Throw to the side, say? (see the last 4 letters in this answer ...)
19 Time in history (... + all 3 in this one)
20 Formal deal
21 Forearm bones
23 Ran into (all 3 letters in this answer ...)
25 Mishmash
(... + the first 3 in this one)
29 Plum’s center
30 Highest peak in Alaska
31 Highlander (rhymes with “Braille”)
32 Hacienda brick
34 ___ box (Japanese lunch)
36 Certain football player (the last 3 letters in this answer ...)
39 Clash with foam ammo (... + the first 3 in this one)
43 Orange, but not apple
45 Submit taxes online 46 2012 film that won Best Picture
49 Drop in
52 Hack (off )
53 Overnight sensation’s trajectory (the last 2 letters in this answer ...)
55 Salt Lake City student (... + all 3 in this one)
56 St. Teresa’s Spanish birthplace
57 Humorist Lebowitz
59 Rapper ___ Nas X
60 Ending a relationship, or a theme hint
67 Snaky fish
68 Fire remnant
69 Fix, as a hair bow
70 Blow away
71 Honey Smacks frog
72 Very proficient
DOWN
1 Hogwarts messenger
2 “I get it now!”
3 Take a load off
4 Not at all proficient
5 Vaccine fluids
6 Sam of Sam’s Club
7 Short flight
8 Spousal ___
9 Pennies: Abbr.
10 Invites to the penthouse
11 Angola’s capital
12 Hold the attention of
13 Semi fuel
18 Massage target
22 Sign out
23 Calf-length skirt
24 English prep school
26 Apply gently
27 Secluded valley
28 “___ kleine Nachtmusik”
29 Buddy
30 Floor model
33 “Keep your shirt on!”
35 Card that beats a deuce
37 Not to mention
38 Chris of “The Good Wife”
40 Become limp
41 Lotion
additive
42 Single exercise
44 Sushi eggs
46 Flowering shrub
47 Critic’s write-up
48 Front piece on a car
50 Imagebuilding group
51 Brought into being
54 Wrapped, as an ankle
55 Like a groomto-be
58 Taj Mahal’s city
61 French friend
62 Late SCOTUS great
63 Casual shirt
64 Absorbed, as a loss
65 Toy’s sound?
66 Group of exercises