PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Out of battery power
5 Sweetheart
10 “Rats!”
14 Folklore fiend
15 Pi, e.g., in math
16 New York canal
17 Arabica, for example
19 Military flute
20 Torments to no end
21 Pair from a deck, perhaps?
22 Small cities
25 ’90s optical illusion fad
27 Peter or Paul, but not Mary
30 Pretzel topper
31 Internet sensation
32 PC key used with F4
34 Slow-moving animals
38 Notable period
39 Word that this puzzle’s author uses frequently ... and that pairs with both parts of 17-, 25-, 51- and
61-Across
41 Drivers’ org.
42 Cupid’s teammate
45 Cobbler’s cousin
46 Visual ___ (charts and such)
47 Zone
49 Brings into harmony
51 Motor variety for a boat
55 Pretentiously creative
56 Bedlam
57 Smooth, musically
60 Symbol of saintliness
61 Bad time to take stock, maybe?
65 Regrets
66 “Tomorrow” musical
67 What snobs put on
68 Choice word
69 Settles in like a bird
70 ___ Lee desserts
DOWN
1 Bespectacled dwarf
2 It may be inflated
3 Pound sound
4 Side without
the ball 5 Guitar ridge
6 Dogs with a chocolate variety, for short
7 Starting squad
8 Sporty Mazdas
9 Forever and a day
10 In reality, from the Latin
11 Pop up
12 Really swell
13 You can get down from them
18 West’s bridge partner
21 Pepper grinder
22 Brought under control
23 Performance at the Met
24 John Lennon hit written as an ode to Yoko Ono
26 What a furious person blows
28 ___ Tar Pits (source of more than 3.5 million fossils)
29 Building addon
33 Touch lightly
35 Make impure
36 Underworld god
37 Freshmouthed
40 Spy org.
43 Last to arrive at the train station
44 Cupid’s counterpart
46 Night lights
48 Francis of old TV’s “What’s My Line?”
50 “Ciao!”
51 Earthy colour
52 DIY moving
option
53 “The Canterbury ___”
54 College VIPs
58 Mental toughness
59 Iowa home of the Cyclones
61 Make illegal
62 Soul seller
63 Slip up
64 Airport
screening org.