PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Weaver’s device
5 Young chaps
9 Breakfast strips
14 Volcano that towers over Catania, Italy
15 Plenty
16 In the know
17 You may make a bed of it (E.B., Anne)
19 Core belief
20 Settle once and for all
21 Urban haze
23 Dwell
25 Power shots in volleyball
29 Comes to a red light
31 “Jeopardy!” focus
33 Current carrier
36 Sheet metal producer (Danielle, John Stuart)
38 Largest cells in the human body
39 Continuously
40 As well
41 English version of the Bible (Stephen, P.D.)
44 Clarinet container
45 Smooth
transitions
46 On account of
49 Start to floss?
51 Sufficient
54 “Grand” baseball feat
56 Steal like Cruella de Vil
58 Bluegrass instrument
62 Literary collaborators ... or 17-,
36- and 41-Across, in a sense
64 Hunter constellation
65 Islamic ruler
66 Four of diamonds, for short?
67 Messages
from cells
68 Challenge
69 Flea or fly
DOWN
1 Raunchy
2 Questionnaire’s last choice, often
3 Being chilled
4 Fauvist painter Henri
5 Texas city on the Rio Grande
6 Actor Mahershala
7 Rx writers
8 Vase inserts
9 Alter ego of Barbara Gordon
10 Wonderment
11 One may be full of Natural Light
12 Mined
matter
13 Table tennis divider
18 Polish, like prose
22 Chose
24 ___ salts (bath additive)
26 Snowboarder Chloe
27 Musical set in Argentina
28 Farm towers
30 Spirited horse
32 Source of a skin-care balm
33 Stir-fry cookers
34 Like some college walls
35 Singer’s span
37 Happen next
39 Twangy
42 “Glue” or “staple” follower
43 Futuristic animated family on an old sitcom
44 Hand over reluctantly
47 Continue to exist
48 Sound of a tugboat’s horn
50 Tied, as running shoes
52 Garden guardian
53 Heavenly instruments
55 NYC gallery
57 Attentiongetting whisper
58 Droid
59 “___ we there yet?”
60 Put the kibosh on
61 Make a note of, with “down”
63 Football filler