PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Book before Romans

5 The Bruins of the Pac-12

9 Get smart?

13 Cuisine with lemongrass and peanut sauce

14 Go bad, like milk

15 Bickering

16 “___ your manners!”

17 Google’s messaging service

19 Fizzy brown drink

20 Spiky-tailed bird

22 Stomach woe caused by nervousness

23 Fluffy scarf

24 Incessant

26 Dwindle

29 Smell from a dirty litter box, e.g.

32 Capote, to friends

33 Tropical root

35 Actor McGregor

37 Come together

41 Crustacean whose leg span can be five feet

44 From then on

45 Nintendo rival

46 Israeli dance

47 Off-road wheels, for short

49 Mail in a box?

51 Opponent’s vote

52 iPhone alternative

56 Race unit

58 Diving bird

59 Fish that has a metallic gray color

65 Tiny pasta

66 Stay away from

67 Fib teller

68 Like some cars and textbooks

69 Against

70 Carpenter’s shaping tool

71 Cozy retreats

72 Wellgroomed

73 Traffic sound

DOWN

1 Bill producers?

2 ___ Pet (fad item with green “hair”)

3 Citrusy kick

4 Back half of an LP

5 High rating for maple syrup

6 Vocalist Perry

7 Hawaiian party

8 Greet the day

9 Construction worker’s meal

10 Make amends

11 Grain towers

12 Box score data, informally

18 Mardi Gras follower

21 Slimy stuff

25 Pharmacy pickup

26 Greek H’s

27 Indonesian vacation spot

28 High-fiber cereal

30 Has title to

31 Fall lawn tools

34 Major nominations in Hollywood

36 Impending, poetically

38 Word after “waffle” or “wrought”

39 “Educated” memoirist Westover

40 Online marketplace

42 Low-carb diet

43 “That was perfect!”

48 Passport stamp

50 Golfer’s score to beat

52 Vocal way to read

53 Like Odin and Loki

54 Egg count

55 Long sofa

57 High-tech classroom

60 Unaccompanied

61 “La Dolce ___”

62 Helper in the House

63 Bulldoze

64 Type of school that Exeter is