PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tens and twenties, e.g. 5 “Freeze!” 9 Cause for many sloppy mistakes 14 First Lady of Jazz Fitzgerald 15 Gutter locale 16 Frequently 17 Person with

top billing 18 Corporate big cheese, for short 19 Howled at the

moon 20 Ant-Man? 23 Deep-voiced

singers

24 Insult by ignoring

25 Lawyer’s org. 28 “Back to the Future” nickname 30 Identified on

Facebook 32 Handle

with ___ 35 Aquaman? 38 Garment commonly draped in the Nivi style 39 Bird of

prey’s nest 40 Causes of

overtime 41 Iron Man? 43 “Well, ___ that

special!” 44 Hazardous 45 Angsty punk

subgenre 47 Popular bread

in Jewish delis 48 Word in the center bingo square 51 Butting heads 56 Catwoman? 58 Bird in a Poe poem 61 “Dagnabbit!” 62 Clothing you don’t want to be seen in, for short 63 Protective

cover?

64 Speck in

the sea

65 From scratch 66 Tree whose leaf is on Canada’s flag 67 Fish that can swim backward

68 Get cheeky

with

DOWN

1 Person being gossiped about on TMZ 2 Amazon Echo assistant 3 Bed frame strips 4 Titular Greek god of an Anais Mitchell musical

5 Appear that

way

6 Subway alternative

7 A lot of dough

goes into them 8 ___ sandies (nutty cookies) 9 Boho-chic

purse

10 A long

way off 11 Dump 12 Golfer’s peg 13 Conclusion 21 Enjoyed a

roller coaster 22 Student getting one-onone help 25 “From the top!” 26 “Raspberry ___” (Prince song)

27 Tosses into the

mix

29 Word after “bass” or “treble” 31 Fearlessness 32 “Step right up!”

shouter 33 Came up, like

an issue 34 Capital

of Latvia 36 Fury 37 Dragons

breathe it 38 Spike on a

cowboy boot 39 “Fore!” for one 42 “No ___!” (words after a diss) 43 Smidgen 46 Clerics’ homes 49 Unsettling 50 Use the pink side of a pencil 52 Largest members of the oceanic dolphin family 53 Royal bride of

1981

54 Julie Andrews and Judi Dench, e.g. 55 Comes down

in flurries 56 Osso buco

meat

57 “___ do” (“Seems good enough”) 58 L.A.-based NFL

player

59 Arroz ___

cubana

60 One getting special treatment, for short