PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Transmission
chain?
6 Yoga pad 9 Book of maps 14 Run, as a
meeting 15 Ginger ___ 16 Steamy room 17 Something especially attractive? 20 “___ of the Needle” (thriller novel) 21 “Now you’d better watch out!” 22 Wonderment 23 Prefix similar
to equi24 Crash sound
in comics 26 Singer Aimee 29 Works hard 33 Fisher of “Wolf
Like Me” 37 Vicinity
38 ___ noir (grape variety) 39 Storage building
40 Insta
postings 41 Yellow-green
shade 42 “Ditto” 43 Michigan or
Erie
44 Law and ___ 45 Per item 46 Channel showing games 47 Cheery tunes 48 Copperplated coin 49 Sort of: Suffix 51 Earth:
Prefix
52 Pair of
rappers, say 53 Enter en
masse
56 “___ Madness” (classic antidrug film) 59 Syst. of hand
signals 60 What gets
stuck in locks? 64 NBA great
Ming
65 Lion in
the sky 66 Assign to a
position 67 Globe 68 Kitten call 69 Hard-boiled Chinese snacks
70 Put in
service
DOWN
1 Hurt
everywhere 2 Sailor’s “Hey!” 3 Female horse 4 Prefix for
“gender” 5 Cookies with a Super Mario variety
6 Half a
Hawaiian fish 7 Scads 8 Summer tops 9 Cobra pose or
corpse pose 10 Identify on
Facebook 11 Moon
goddess 12 Freshly 13 Completely fill 18 Played billiards
19 Mafia
members 23 From one
perspective 25 What an actor shouldn’t do
26 Source of
syrup
27 Opera
solos
28 Airline passenger’s prop 30 Drilling structure
31 Sitting at a red
light, maybe 32 “It’d be my
pleasure!” 34 2017 Ed Sheeran hit ... and a phonetic hint to 17-Across, 60-Across, 28Down and the center of this puzzle’s grid 35 Dish soap
scent
36 Very skillful 50 Drummer’s
cymbal pair 52 Auto dings 53 Part of the
hand
54 “Oh, OK!” 55 Scruff
56 “Does that
___ a bell?” 57 Organs with
drums
58 It’s worn after
a bath 61 Hoppy brew,
for short 62 Beluga eggs 63 Swine