PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dish before an entree, informally 4 Avails oneself

of

8 Furnishes with

a grant

14 Mess hall

queue 16 Response to a

good point 17 Thoroughly

enjoying 19 Family car 20 “Looky here!” 21 FedEx

competitor 22 Note to the

staff

23 Golden State sch. that Mayim Bialik attended 25 Lhasa ___ (dog

breed) 26 Getting up

there in age 29 Fuzzy

memory 30 AOL

alternative 31 Painter Vincent van ___ 32 Smoke detector noises 33 Listing in the

classifieds 36 Motorcyclist 39 Physics

Nobelist Niels 40 Transcript no. 43 Not odd 44 Abut

47 Item for a TSA

agent

48 Cereal grains 49 Courageous 50 Rustic

lodging

51 Tags on Twitter 52 “The final

frontier” 54 1997 Bruce Willis sci-fi film ... or what you’d expect to find at the end of this answer, given the last few letters of 17-, 26-, 33- and 44-Across 59 Pina ___ 60 Priced separately, at a restaurant 61 “The Scarlet Letter” protagonist Prynne 62 Pieces of info for detectives 63 Vegetable thatmaybe candied DOWN

1 Perform in

a play

2 “Star Trek”

weapons 3 Pikachu’s

franchise 4 Forearm bone 5 Fingerspell,

say

6 Finale

7 “Didn’t I tell

you?!”

8 One of the UAE’s national airlines 9 Canceled, at

NASA 10 “Obviously!” 11 Increase eightfold

12 Throws together quickly 13 Motion

detectors, e.g. 15 Black ___ (Avenger or spider) 18 Hang around 22 Leo the Lion’s

studio 23 Popular fleecy

boots

24 Live together 25 “Community” character portrayed by Danny Pudi 27 Frankenstein’s assistant, in film 28 Neither’s

partner

32 Wire fence

feature 33 Ward (off ) 34 Contents of a

firewood rack 35 “I’m not so

sure ...” 36 Cast a spell

over

37 Sir Walter Scott

classic 38 “Hotels” for

dogs

40 Grub hub? 41 Northern Italian cornmeal dish 42 “Your point

being?” 44 Nearby

45 The right way? 46 Bush

successor 51 Assistant 52 Sound of a

hockey shot 53 Bench press targets, for short

55 Bacon

drippings 56 Magician’s

prop

57 Peyton Manning’s brother 58 President

pro ___