PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Curved trajectories
5 Governing body for soccer
9 Crew member
14 Indonesian island
15 Gave the thumbs-up to
16 Dodge
17 Like die-hard fans
18 Bona fide
19 Short-range basketball shot
20 Heyday for your nemesis?
23 Make possible
24 What may be boring?
25 Feeling down
28 Subject of the “birds and the bees” talk
29 ___ golf (Frisbee game)
32 Agree out of court
34 Send your gown back to the store?
36 Wander
39 Prefix meaning “new”
40 Furry creature from Endor
41 Balancing job at the garage?
46 ___ Slam (tennis feat named for a Williams sister)
47 Low-carb diet
48 Electric bass hookup
51 “Just give it a shot!”
52 Place to enjoy a seaweed wrap
54 Get in the way of
56 Accuse one of the noblemen?
59 Small donkey
62 Soccer score
63 Opening for a token
64 More accurate
65 Not fooled by
66 One might save the day
67 Not fulfilled
68 Home made of twigs, maybe
69 Tiny, informally
DOWN
1 Subsides
2 Deep, narrow valley
3 High point
4 “I Am the Walrus,” to “Hello, Goodbye”
5 Surrender
6 Swedish furniture retailer
7 Emotion felt in a scary movie, maybe
8 Go off script
9 In the same family
10 Eggy, in a way?
11 Modus operandi
12 Part of a college URL
13 One curl, say
21 Adjective for a “shoppe”
22 Company in the plastic business?
25 Slow-cooked dish
26 “What’s more ...”
27 Word after “standing” or “information”
30 Like some numbers?
31 Floorboard sound
33 Christmas purchase that’s often thrown out in January
34 Russo of “Ransom”
35 Written reminder
36 Remainder
37 “Your turn,” on a walkie-talkie
38 Extremely
42 Briefly
43 California county for wine lovers
44 “This situation’s overwhelming!”
45 Campus military org.
48 It works like a charm
49 People who aren’t yet of age
50 Bone or squeaky ball, e.g.
53 Noble gas that’s an anagram of “organ”
55 Mario’s dinosaur pal
56 People of Canada
57 Out of the picture
58 Chows down
59 A/C measure
60 Fancy vase
61 Alcohol in a pina colada