PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Girl who may

say “nae” 5 Military wear,

informally 9 Rhyming nickname for a ’90s-’00s Britcom

14 Boat in “Jaws” 15 Acted just like 16 Navajo or

Pueblo 17 Tournament

favorite 19 Cliffside nest 20 Souvenir shop

garment 21 Comes down

hard? 22 Opposite NNE 23 Abbr. at the end of a business name 24 Geological

period 25 Problemsolve

29 Simple chord 32 Word said with

a sigh

33 Apply 34 Houston

university 35 Try to

prevent

37 “A Hard Road to Glory” author Arthur 38 Tribute from a

poet

39 West Coast

gas brand 40 Cook, as clams 41 Diagram of

options 45 Photographer

Adams

46 Suffix for “rocket”

47 “Te ___” (Spanish for “I love you”)

50 Item an Olympian hurls 52 Heart hit with the words “I cast my spell of love on you” 54 Buzzing with

activity

55 Yield the

desired result 56 Bogus

57 A single time 58 Annapolis

initials 59 Fabric for a professor’s jacket

60 Ram like

a goat

61 Like the observation “Crosswords are similar to life ...”

DOWN

1 Top housing options? 2 Astrological ram 3 Fastener that may be loose 4 Back talk 5 Slots’ spot 6 Brief outline 7 Convene 8 Not divisible

by two 9 Bewildered 10 Bottom-first

kind of birth 11 Building with a bell and a pole

12 Not much 13 Flower

pollinators 18 Bronze medalist’s place

21 Pointy pickle piece 24 Fashion magazine

25 ___ Bo (exercise system) 26 Conductor’s

stick

27 Dept. of Labor

arm

28 Abound

29 Put one’s foot

down? 30 Carnival attraction 31 Ornate-buttemporary winter structure

35 Towels off 36 Natural resource management subj. 37 Absorbed, as a

cost

39 Gave

confidence to 40 Bottom line on

a letter, say? 42 Cut with

a scalpel

43 It led to a 1773

Boston “party” 44 Wish undone 47 Get a smile

out of 48 Acadia National Park’s state 49 Available from

a keg 50 Ridiculous, to

a Brit 51 Translation of

Caesar’s “vidi” 52 Computer list 53 “Phooey!” 55 Go up and

down