PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Source of some unwanted feedback 4 “Quit it!” 8 Woman who leads a family (X = ARCH) 14 Actress Thurman 15 High-fat diet 16 Enter with troops 17 Road coating 18 Excited about 19 Tuchus 20 Soap opera about certain Londoners (X = AS) 23 Single-channel
24 More quirky 25 Luau necklaces 27 Teased, with “with” 28 Base for red trucks (X = REST) 32 Step after “lather” 33 Round before a final 34 Islamic sect 35 Friend, in France 36 Traveler’s flight (X = RIP) 39 Mont Blanc, e.g.
40 Joke around 42 Fundamentals 43 Assigns stars to
45 Big burden (X = LOTTO)
47 Scoped out before robbing
48 Give up, as land
49 “Tell me already!”
50 Tie to a dock 52 Algebra directive ... and a hint to decoding five entries in this puzzle 56 Place to let sleeping dogs lie
58 Water marker? 59 Archer’s asset 60 What blowhards and some balloons are full of 61 Fairy-tale monster 62 Place for a facial 63 Black-andwhite puzzles, colloquially ... and what the five sets of parentheses contain 64 Guesses: Abbr. 65 “Jeopardy!” host Jennings
DOWN
1 Silencing button
2 Huge movie format 3 Humorously exaggerated 4 Superficial 5 Looked after 6 Sea animal with dense fur 7 Low-quality 8 ’97 sci-fi film hidden in “Miami Blues” 9 Iron deficiency
10 Pat Sajak and Steve Harvey 11 Wet forecast 12 Digits on a plastic card: Abbr. 13 Marked, as a ballot
21 Ice cream brand 22 Covers with goo 26 Enter’s opposite 27 Watch brand 28 Fight with an epee, say 29 “Gotta broach a difficult question ...” 30 Greased 31 Afternoon rests 32 Indian prince
33 Dark weasellike critters 37 Cheryl of “Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups” 38 Sources of Superman’s piercing looks 41 Station with shells and salsa
44 “Oh, su-u-ure!” 46 Attendant of Poseidon 47 Prance around 49 Snails’ relatives
50 Cat’s cry 51 Springfield bus driver 53 High woodwind 54 Ready to pick 55 Marvel’s Beast or Wolverine 56 Ariz. airport 57 Neurologists, e.g.: Abbr.