PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Common fast-food side order
6 So far
11 Backstabber
14 Middle meal
15 Montoya in “The Princess Bride”
16 “A likely story!”
17 Inedible fruit that surprisingly isn’t a citrus
19 Anger
20 Cleopatra’s snake
21 Bit of aerobic exercise
22 Up-and-coming whiz
24 “Let’s see you do better!”
26 Split, like a hoof
27 “For ___ a Jolly Good Fellow”
28 Former legal drama that starred Susan Dey
29 Howled
32 Metaphor for a potential crisis
35 Extol
36 Line with triangles, on a weather map
38 Before long, to a poet
39 Become established
41 The way things are going
42 Track shapes
43 Big name in outdoor gear
44 New York NBA team
45 Candor
49 Pooh’s pink pal
50 Monotonous routines
51 One may be shortsleeved
52 John, in England
53 Contents of some palettes ... or what 17-Across, 11Down and 31Down could be, given that their starts are rivers?
56 Bird that hoots
57 High up
58 Not throw away, say
59 Person celebrated in June
60 Abominable snowmen
61 Construction spots
DOWN
1 Ice-cream treat served with a straw
2 Rene of “Ransom”
3 Like “Candy Crush” purchases
4 Heart record, for short
5 Relative of a man cave
6 Buenos ___
7 Lose your temper
8 Yang’s counterpart
9 Baba ghanoush ingredient
10 Initial bit of progress
11 Drink such as liebfraumilch
12 Composer Copland
13 Not us
18 Elevator pioneer
23 Saint of Hollywood
25 Lucifer
26 Extended family
29 Its first letter doesn’t stand for “bread”
30 Battery size
31 Potato variety developed in Canada
32 You may bid or build on it
33 Oui’s opposite
34 No ___ in sight
36 “Pecos Bill” or “Paul Bunyan”
37 “Friends” character with a Ph.D.
40 Saratoga or Daytona
41 Stretching muscles
43 Campus military org.
44 Southern Plains native
45 What the truth does, per Lizzo
46 “I’m a little teapot/Short and ___”
47 Brusque
48 Affirmatives
49 Trudge
50 Mortgage change, for short
54 Pampered one?
55 Fragrant neckwear