PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Engrave

5 Gift ___ (museum feature)

9 Basics 13 Stitch’s

adopter

14 New Zealander who practices ta moko

16 Cod or Horn 17 Certain acquired relative (In this answer, see letters 1, 2, 10, 14 and 15) 20 What can be lent to a speaker

21 27 is a superstitious one in music

22 Desert beast 23 They’re picked

pedantically 25 Fish in a piano

pun

26 Letter before

chi

29 Cards to scrape (... letters 1, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 14)

33 Martini

garnish 34 Cannabis plant 35 Impasses

38 In a neat way 41 Other, in

Oaxaca

42 DIY mover’s

rental

43 “Eyes Wide Shut” director (... letters 10-14)

49 Tofu base

50 Drink company with a polar bear mascot

51 Bad smell 52 Low female

voices

54 Try, as coffee 56 Absorb, with

“up”

58 Fairy tale trio whose houses are hinted at by the indicated letters 62 Be a getaway driver, perhaps 63 Chemistry’s

___ gas law 64 Place before a

point

65 Snakes that

squeeze 66 Rowing needs 67 ___ Plus shampoo

DOWN

1 Otherwise 2 Tennessee NFL team

3 Imam, for one 4 Partner of skip

and jump 5 “When the ___ clears in Los Angeles, UCLA” (pun)

6 Abhor

7 “Very

interesting!” 8 Already

chopped 9 Teenage skin

condition 10 Two-headed hammer variety

11 IRS form

expert 12 Embroider, e.g. 15 From Tehran,

say

18 Indian film genre named after a spice mix 19 Computer

since 1998 24 Like a notable wooden horse 25 Pain in

___ neck 27 WWW code 28 Kids’

guessing game 30 27-Down creator Berners-Lee 31 Drugstore

chain 32 “Young Dumb

& Broke” singer 35 Opposite of

a win 36 Inflatable pilot

in “Airplane!” 37 Unclear situation 38 “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. 39 Black or yellow

pooch 40 Georgia’s

home 42 Hawaiian instrument, briefly

44 Miller ___ 45 Lettuce danger 46 “That’s true

about me” 47 Adjacent side /

hypotenuse 48 Grocery store

chain 53 Permits 54 Sirius or Arcturus

55 Woes

57 “Hey,”

secretively 58 Key above

Caps Lock 59 “Euphoria”

channel 60 “Spilled” gossip

61 Soda