DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS 1 Fabric dyed for hunting purposes

5 What beef and pork

are

9 Kind of column 10 Ready to go

12 Register

13 Picturesque

15 At the top

16 2010 NBA champs 18 Daunt

19 Jazz singer Carmen 20 Part of N.B.

21 Mount Everest

climber’s goal

22 Rate ___ (be perfect) 23 Like the Empire State

Building

27 Lingerie in bed 33 Organized crime 35 Software system containing ads 36 Peace branches 38 Little giggle 39 Scavenger kitty 41 Votes against

42 Miss Hawkins of Dogpatch

44 Soft drink 48 Discoverer of X-rays 53 Describing our numeral system

55 Very seldom

56 Admire and respect 57 Meat slice

59 Sponge 63 Oolong, Earl Grey e.g. 64 Ballyhoo

68 Fa followers 69 Spawning fish 70 Took ___ for the worse 72 Lowest deck of a ship 73 Small, brown, applelike fruit

75 Needs fixing 76 Bridled

78 Deeds

79 Plant with showy yellow flowers 80 Longed 81 Whiskey plants 82 Bridge action

DOWN

1 Pigment 2 Parsley family plant 3 Foggy vapor

4 Fall mo.

5 Wks. and wks. 6 Bottom-of-letter abbr. 7 Top performers 8 Petroleum carrier on rails

9 Con

11 Earring set up action 12 Part of Disney World 14 Studies 15 Annapolis inst. 17 Recognizes 23 Hollow 24 Jannings of “The Blue Angel”

25 Lagoon 26 Follows 27 More dapper 28 Chemical ending 29 No Doubt lead singer Stefani 30 Response to a joke 31 Three spot card 32 They’re barely passing 34 Gp. in charge of condominiums, perhaps

37 Rarer

40 Commotion

43 Execute

44 Director Reiner 45 Creme-filled cookie 46 Fluid rock

47 Not up yet

49 Align

50 “___ life!”

51 Some wings 52 Educator Bill 54 Outrage

58 Things to follow 59 Deception

60 Estimator

61 Shakes

62 Prior

65 Hollered

66 Narratives

67 See

71 Tot watcher 72 Promises

74 “Get Shorty” actress Russo

75 This established payroll tax

77 Perp prosecutors 78 Water source