DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS

1 April number crunchers, for short 5 Houdini, for example 12 Bern’s river

13 Act contrary to

promises made

14 Jack Horner’s discovery 15 Residents of a medical

staff

16 Big name in luxury

hotels

17 Fast cat

18 Word with four or

point

22 Many Egyptians 27 Really mess up 28 Seasoned rice 29 Mining finds 30 Cornerstone

abbreviation 31 Predicted

36 Religious belief 37 Juvenile outbreak 40 Crow’s home

41 “My Name Is ___” (William Saroyan story collection)

45 Speaker’s platform 46 In living color

47 2000s sitcom starring

a country singer 48 Performs with

distinction

49 Alfa owners 53 Markers

54 French Sudan, today 55 Roller coaster feature 56 Hair eggs 57 Better than bad

58 It shows the way 60 “Or ___!”

61 Graveyard shift 66 Construction crew

protective gear 69 Spots

70 Workplace safety org. 71 Newly hatched insect 72 Big cat

73 Mock

74 Uninteresting 75 Where a zoom gets

you

81 Wimp

85 Electee

86 Mark of a ruler

87 Pet shelter visitor,

perhaps

88 Venetian farewell 89 Feeling-related 90 Start of many

addresses

DOWN

1 Family head

2 Hand part

3 Give ___ for one’s money 4 Athletes paid for parttime work

5 Kick out

6 Hyperbolic function 7 Pigeon’s home 8 Opposite of aweather 9 Fraction

10 Highest volcano in

Europe

11 Formed differently 19 Continental coin 20 Stadium section 21 Map feature 23 Skyrocket

24 High, prefix 25 Barnyard sounds 26 Hoagie

32 Prefix with byte 33 Vectra maker

34 Tree cover

35 1968 Tom Jones song 37 Actress Amy

38 Tree with pods 39 Nobelist Bohr 42 Lubricate once more... 43 Borders on

44 Pool shot 50 Short-billed rail 51 Unit of pressure 52 Music device

59 CCR’s “___ Stop the

Rain?”

62 Middle Eastern

republic

63 “Chicago” star, 2002 64 Suffer from 65 Russian empresses 67 Where the Himalayas

rise

68 Fund-raising suffix 74 Tasting like Miller 76 Anatomical knot 77 “Time’s a-wastin’!” 78 Speech organs

79 Not taken in by 80 Nostradamus, for one 82 Single entity

83 Take a hike!

84 Visit a store