‘not so musical’

ACROSS

1 Fizzy drink

4 Like a stereotypical teen’s room 9 French pancake

14 Tribute in verse

15 Eschew a big wedding

16 Bed cover

17 Do a floor chore 18 Shakespearean sleepwalker (see letters 4 to 7 in this answer) 20 Make ready, for short

22 Like a bank account, vis-a-vis the

stock market

23 Empire that treasured alpacas 24 Disoriented

26 Cozy place to stay

27 Elite English boarding school 28 Doubter

31 “How r u?” and others

33 Satisfied person (5 to 8)

36 ___ XING

39 Top-flight crew

40 Sixth col. on a cal., perhaps 41 Christmas plant

43 Kitten’s cry

DOWN

44 “See? That proves it!” (6 to 9) 47 Cost of admission 48 Morose-looking

49 Bassoon relative

52 “Honest” prez

55 Spend time with People, say 56 Unable to decide

57 Apple’s apple and Red Lobster’s red lobster

59 Word before “blue” or “bean”

62 30 Rock costar (3 to 6) 65 Thumb in a fairy tale 66 Participate in, as a drawing 67 Singer Haggard

68 “...and the list goes on”: Abbr. 69 49-Across inserts

70 In its ___ (as a replacement) 71 Location of many schools?

1 Splendor

2 Skunk’s defense 3 Love-starved cartoon skunk 4 Blanc who voiced 3-Down 5 Stretchy

6 Fizzy drink

7 Genre for Bond movies 8 Neighbor of Saudi Arabia 9 Public health agcy.

10 Red gems

11 Happening

12 Chain that sells dog food 13 Hawke of Hollywood

19 Golfer Palmer, to fans 21 Momma’s partner, maybe 25 Thwart

28 Phony

29 Duchess Middleton

30 Place to drink a flat white

32 Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego

34 ___ Robinson (The Graduate role) 35 Chasms

36 Meetings arranged by parents 37 “Do it or ___!”

38 Like blue hair

42 Singer Billy or Frank 45 Dominion

46 Wine in an Italian chicken dish 47 Engaged in swordplay 49 Playful river mammal 50 Carried, as by wind

51 Take the podium 53 Explosion sounds 54 Everglades bird

58 Fairy-tale villain

60 Yea or nay

61 Popular sing-along song that’s butchered in the starred answers? 63 Mos. and mos.

64 Marge’s neighbor