PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Puts one and one together, say 5 Handbag
monogram 8 Cliff notes? 13 (I touched
your nose!) 14 Shop selling
salami
15 Soft palate
projection 16 Wrestling popular in Tokyo 17 “Everything’s
fine!”
18 Bread crumbs used for tempura 19 They relate
well to others 22 Spanish custard
23 “Family Guy”
matriarch 24 Cut, as grass 27 Employ 29 Boardroom VIP 32 “I want to see!” 34 Prez before
Jack
35 Cobra curl 36 With 38-Across, snitches
37 Size above
med.
38 See 36-Across 39 Sitter’s bane 40 Triumphant
cry
41 Photo often snapped at arm’s length 42 Bottle
alternative 43 Lab report
writer? 45 Hither’s partner
46 Cut, as costs 47 Director Ephron
49 What Kevin Love achieved in 53 consecutive NBA games, or a theme hint 53 One may have attachments 55 Touch a
side of 56 “Carpe diem”
acronym 58 Pop, as
a balloon 59 Covers with
black goo 60 Shout after the pound of a gavel 61 Collections of
bits 62 Hurricane’s
center 63 Drove
lickety-split
DOWN
1 Muscles below the ribs 2 Arrange, as hair 3 Rounded roof 4 “Spaceballs,” for “Star Wars” 5 Sana’a citizen 6 Sty food
7 Have a crush
on, informally 8 Affluent ’80s
city dweller 9 Flattened
circles 10 Mound in
the Sahara 11 Animal with
antlers 12 Southeast Asian language 14 What pupils may do during an exam? 20 Prunes, once 21 Flow like
molasses 24 “The ReidOut” channel 25 Catherine of
“Schitt’s Creek” 26 “I’m Every ___” (Chaka Khan hit)
28 Hardly heavy 29 Like pj’s
30 “Old MacDonald” letters 31 Elizabeth of “WandaVision”
33 Just out of the
jacuzzi 35 Stanford’s rival,
for short 37 Airing in the
wee hours 38 India’s first
prime minister 40 Parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme
41 Gets a
move on 43 Bank heist
targets
44 Stick it out 46 Personal grace 48 Bottomless pit 49 It’s thrown
at a board 50 PayPal’s parent company, once 51 Circular Blue
Angels stunt 52 Palindromic fashion magazine 53 Gradually
decline
54 “___ bien,
gracias!” 57 Like 2021, but
not 2022