DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS

1 Reason to cram 5 Diamond legend, with

“the”

9 Trade show

10 Rows

11 Coach Andy

12 Fruity pastry 13 Apropos of

14 “A ___ Day’s Night” 15 Cries for attention 20 Old time writer

25 Lay into

26 Duck down

27 Ron whose #10 was retired by the Chicago Cubs

28 On the briny 29 Western potato 30 Give it sparkle

32 Pillar

34 ‘’Hey, Buddy!’’ 38 Enthusiastic poetry 40 Insurer for military

personnel 44 Machinating 45 Supporting

47 “___, Brute?”

48 Wife of Jacob 49 Telegraphy inventor 50 Plant with triangular

fronds

51 Fish-feeding eagle 52 Customer

53 Building block 54 Computer

information 55 Napoleonic marshal 56 Feel

58 Chops off

59 Lunch counters 63 Don’t exist 66 Director Wertmuller 67 NBA coach, Pat 68 Back street 69 Restrain

70 A Gabor sister 72 Meaning

73 Spanish for hand 76 Shade of blue 80 Way, way off 81 Capital of Italia 82 Characteristic carrier 83 Barely budgets 84 “___ a Teen-age

Werewolf”

85 “Buona ___” (Italian

greeting)

DOWN

1 Prefix with hertz 2 Old associates 3 Saliva

4 Flaps

5 Irritate 6 Battery for laser pointers

7 Winter comment 8 Founded: Abbr. 15 Helper

16 In direct competition 17 Sicilian lava spewer 18 Algebra or trig 19 Sitting spot

21 Halt to a war 22 Computer architecture acronym 23 Prefix meaning “notion” 24 Attentive male companion 31 Regretful sadness 32 Cried weakly 33 Soap or Mozart 35 Classic children’s game 36 Trapping noose 37 Belated 38 Bouquets 39 Charitable organization, often 41 Court reporter’s machine

42 ‘’Take ___ down memory lane ...’’ 43 Some wedding guests 46 Bump off 57 Connelly and Antony 60 Building additions 61 Jaime Murray, on “Dexter”

62 “Il Trovatore” soprano 64 Rub the wrong way 65 Style

68 Islands off Portugal 71 Land areas

73 Wise men

74 Some

75 Mom’s mom

77 Bind

78 US abbr.

79 Space explorers