DIAGRAMLESS, 21 X 21

ACROSS

1 Flips (through)

6 Soup

10 Texas A & M athlete

11 Upscale hotel chain

12 Getting on in years

13 Factual

14 Fair fare

16 Identify

17 Russian ruler

20 Kitchen pot

25 Dog in “Beetle Bailey” 26 Cloth merchant

27 Three in Paris

28 Famous Greek physician 29 Elephant drivers

31 Fairy folk

32 High jump or discus, e.g. 33 Frightful flies

36 Opposite of sur 37 Film actor Sharif

38 Student score, abbr.

41 Cowell of Idol fame

42 Cigar

43 Smiling

45 Rumpus

46 Ringlet

47 “... with ___ in sight”

- 2 words

48 One who leaves prison without

permission

51 El ___ (artist)

52 Hail

53 Nonconfrontational one

55 1972 Derek and the Dominos hit 56 Nonsensical

57 With a sickly, yellowish

complexion

58 Wax closure

59 Southwestern bars 61 “Garden of Evil” novelist

Buchanan

62 Newsman Rather

63 Starting points

68 Mid-calf skirt

69 Those who identify

70 Type

71 March of ___

72 Like rainy London skies 73 Bias

DOWN

1 Garda or Como

2 Bavarian river

3 Buckin’, not backin’

4 Track down

5 Edible lily bulbs

6 Grinding bowl

7 “In other words...”, 2 words 8 Hurdle 9 “Mona Lisa,” e.g.

12 Over

15 Appliances

17 Raptor HQ

18 Bulk up

19 Toiling away, 2 words 21 Russian range

22 Give birth in a barn 23 Fencing swords

24 Writes

27 Heat prefix

29 Brainy bunch

30 Get around

33 Add together, 2 words 34 Campfire treat

35 Golden or tawny

38 Penny-pinching

39 ___-nez

40 Choice words, 2 words 42 Knave 43 Luanda native

44 Greatest of the apes

48 Lift up

49 Needles

50 Panamanian port

52 Brio

53 Calculate

54 Fought

57 Mental equilibrium

59 Inner circle

60 Parcels

62 Parisian house of design

64 Fasten

65 “Harry Potter” actress Watson 66 Visible

67 Formerly, formerly

68 Chinese food additive, abbr.