PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Transparent eye part
7 South Pacific nation
11 Break in continuity
14 Cooks, like clams
15 Cheese in a red wax
16 Game with a Wild Draw Four card
17 *Slanted text
20 Person up on a soapbox, maybe
21 Erases
22 “Bottled or ___?” (waiter’s question)
24 House call?
25 Preamble
30 www.indiana.___
33 Worry
36 *Structure that tourists “hold up” in photos
40 Attorney’s field
41 ___ kick (soccer move named for a cutting tool)
42 Slight trace
44 “Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘___ Up’” (Guante poem)
45 *Column with an angle
47 “Into the Unknown” singer in “Frozen 2”
49 Get the picture
50 Like some wine barrels
51 Tats
53 Chow line? 56 “Quit
fidgeting!” 60 More
greasy 65 *Piece of equipment with rungs and sliding sections 68 Gibbon or
bonobo, e.g. 69 A bit wet 70 Name that sounds like a self-description of each starred clue’s answer 71 Word paired
with “neither” 72 “At once!” 73 Gets hot on
social media
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1 Long-running
CBS drama 2 Apt name for a
race car driver 3 Raise, like
a child 4 Beyonce’s role in “The Lion King”
5 Give off
6 Fred’s neckwear in “ScoobyDoo”
7 Hat with tassels
8 Pointed a
finger at? 9 Green gemstone prized in China 10 Insinuate
11 Bit of embellishment in a rock song
12 Actress/model Watanabe
13 Soup-cooking vessels
18 Playwright Levin
19 Place to see clown fish
23 Word before “talk” or “rally”
25 Unhelpful response to “Who’s there?”
26 Super lite
27 Artemis, to Apollo
28 High-___ monitor
29 “Ish”
31 Opera star
32 Person rating an app, probably
34 “King of birds”
35 12-year-old, e.g.
37 “Sorry, my mistake!”
38 Like water at most restaurants
39 Concerning
43 Aunt, in Spanish
46 Anti-trafficking org.
48 Feed the kitty
52 Varieties
54 Comedian Funches
55 ___ mignon
56 Fava or mung morsel
57 Convention center event
58 Aspiring D.A.’s exam
59 Capital of Peru
61 Villain’s hideout
62 Sit with the engine running
63 Starter home?
64 Clarinet necessity
66 Make a choice
67 Some hospital employees: Abbr.