DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS

1 MasterCard alternative 5 Helter-skelter

12 The proof ___ the

pudding

13 Airbag site

14 Pizza feature

15 City in central

Switzerland

16 Noisy bird

17 Tailor’s supply

18 “The Sounds of India”

musician, first name 19 N.Y.P.D. employee 23 Leprechaun’s land 24 UK museum

25 Palm whose berries are

now used in fruit juices 26 Tofu, e.g.

27 Codes of conduct 34 Muddled

35 Adaptable

37 Bona fide

38 Abstruse

40 Site of Theo. Roosevelt

Natl. Park

41 Elliot of the Mamas

and the Papas 42 Wagner heroine 43 Prefix with dextrous 46 Perch or bass

49 ____ wheeler 51 Neo-soul singer, Erica 52 Strong and proud 53 Single entities 54 Maker of cutlasses perhaps

59 Zest

60 Silk color 61 Spring day toy 62 French for nothing 63 Viewed 64 Chemical endings 65 Humiliate

71 Sticks

74 Unfolds

76 Puts up, as a picture 77 Alleviate 78 Language of Lahore 79 Pooh-pooh

80 “Let’s Get It On” singer

DOWN

1 Birthplace of eight U.S. presidents

2 Bats 3 Asunción assent 4 ___ meridiem

5 Half of D

6 ___ monde 7 Cagey

8 Baltic feeder 9 Bolted 10 Hebrides island 11 Amex is one 14 Seafood delicacy 16 Explorer Polo

18 500 sheets

20 Jean Paul Sartre book 21 Run of luck

22 Step on it 28 Parasite

29 Rick’s love in “Casablanca”

30 N.M. art colony 31 Followers 32 French summer

33 Yes or no follower 36 ___ disobedience 39 Server homes 40 Front and back, at Pebble Beach

43 ___ point (never) 44 Israel’s Golda 45 Motion that can be part of an exercise program

46 Mae of the mortgage industry

47 Form concepts 48 Larry King trademark 50 ‘’In what way?’’ 51 Wooded areas 55 Baked Alaska cover 56 Cake glazes 57 Deodars

58 Attila’s horde 66 Balance 67 Blemish 68 Peace-prize winner Wiesel

69 Assert with confidence 70 St. Petersburg’s river 71 ___-a-lug

72 Star of “Tomb Raider” 73 Race place 75 Stiffen