PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Unadorned

5 Flex

9 Flourish

14 First fratricide victim

15 It’s spiky yet soothing

16 Author Ingalls Wilder

17 One running in fashionable circles

19 Complete and total

20 Interrogate Zuckerberg?

22 “I can’t ___ that!” (response to a gross image)

23 Ray guns’ rays, maybe

27 Newsroom VIPs

28 Leprechaun who’s a cereal mascot

30 Corp. head honcho

31 Daring poker statement

34 Tear transmitters

36 With 37-Across, hugely inflate price estimates?

37 See 36-Across

39 Mothers’ sisters

40 Mollusk often served in a white wine sauce

41 Letters before a pseudonym

42 Tissue layers

44 Clean Air Act org.

47 Cherished

50 Deck with wands

52 Send along Kirk x Spock fanfic, say?

55 Measured poker statement

58 Infiltrate, as a spy

59 Righteous

60 They may be long on the underdog

61 Father of 14-Across

62 63-Across and others

63 Ogden who wrote, “The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk”

64 Shoe part, or a fish

DOWN

1 From a region on Spain’s border

2 Teem

3 Music played as the clergy exit

4 Renee ___ Goldsberry

5 Indonesian island

6 “Call Me by Your Name” protagonist

7 Like a bully

8 Decree to pass muster

9 Book jacket summary

10 “I love you a ___” (Hanukkah card pun)

11 Openly queer

12 Mine material

13 Damage

18 Put away some groceries?

21 ___ which way

24 Gradually speeding up, in music

25 New York baseball players

26 . . . - - - . . .

28 Short, informally

29 Application

32 Place to get stuck

33 Six-pack components

34 MS-___

35 Tribe for which a Western state is named

36 Ellington of jazz

37 “___ pasa?”

38 Naval letters

39 Vocalization at the dentist’s

40 ___ rights (suspect’s protections)

42 Part of rpm

43 Food writer Nigella

45 Part of USPS

46 Not out and about

48 C sharp, by another name

49 Barbie and G.I. Joe

50 Reproachful sound

51 Secret identity

53 Scarlet and vermilion

54 Crush, as hopes

55 Little devil

56 Dove call

57 Verb that sounds like its second letter