PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “We Have the

Meats” chain 6 Bygone music

player 10 “Frozen” queen 14 Remove a big

coat?

15 Like someone

from Phuket 16 Tie up, like a

ship 17 *Avoiding anything complicated 20 Exhausts 21 Feel sick 22 Guiding principles

23 Spring mo. 24 Chimney

grime

25 *“This is pretty straightforward” 31 Oahu

verandas 33 Birth control

option

34 “Star Wars Holiday Special” guest Arthur

35 Big name in

aluminum 36 Wooden pin 37 Norwegian

toast 39 Country that has sent the most women into space, for short

40 Six, in Sicily 41 Words of selfpity

42 *“Quit following the mainstream!” 46 Attended 47 Brazilian city whose anthem is “Cidade Maravilhosa” 48 Unit of electrical current

51 Scrap of cloth 52 Virtuous 56 *Diner order represented visually in and above the ends of the starred clues’ answers

59 Ice cream

parlor order 60 Helper 61 Lower leg joint 62 “___ All That” (1999 rom-com) 63 Glaswegian gal 64 Mexican

money

DOWN

1 Queries 2 Seehorn of “Better Call Saul” 3 Microwave

sound

4 Little barks 5 ___ Lanka 6 She’s hot!

7 “In the Air Tonight” singer Collins

8 Grain in

Cheerios 9 Danced in a

’70s club 10 Doc Brown of “Back to the Future” 11 Unhurried gait 12 Convinced 13 Greek god

of war

18 Places to pick

up kittens? 19 Fe on the

periodic table 23 Most populous

continent 24 Self-satisfied 25 Like Machu

Picchu 26 Concept in Chinese philosophy 27 Refrain in a song with the words “With a moo moo here” 28 Multiplechoice options 29 Paper

quantity

30 Ivy where Lupita Nyong’o got her master’s 31 Exalt 32 Furthermore 36 Nuisance 37 Meh 38 Japanese carp 40 West African nation known for mbalax 41 Satchel of

baseball fame 43 Twitter posts 44 Arctic Ocean

hazard 45 Weathers

courageously 48 Machines originally called Docutellers 49 Kiss sound 50 Fish stick? 51 Fish sticks? 52 DNA

sequence 53 Where squirrels go to get their acorn fix 54 Capital of

Norway 55 Coloring

substances 57 “Chandelier”

singer

58 Da Brat genre