LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fall into bed

6 Turn on

11 23andMe stuff

14 Santorini’s sea

16 Holy scroll

17 Ref. work that added “influencer” in 2022

18 *Person destined for greatness 20 Early afternoon

21 Fizz liquor

22 Polished

23 Goes (for)

25 Pseudocultural 27 *Nocturnal bird known for

its cry

31 Tea variety

33 Brass instrument

34 Arizona Wildcats coach Barnes 35 Chew the fat

37 Prefix with day or night 38 Irish golfer McIlroy

39 *Cocoa butter confection 44 Melville captain

45 Melber of MSNBC

46 Court

47 Drought-damaged 48 Fireplace stack

50 He-Man’s twin 54 *Board-breaking move 57 Mario Paint console, initially 58 Black Power leader Kwame __ 59 Chinese greeting

62 Chemical in some plastics,

briefly

63 Goal

64 Nature’s sonar, and what varies in the answers to the starred clues?

68 Slangy assent

69 Unoriginal

70 Least extroverted

71 “Give or take” ending 72 Talked up 73 “Ugh,I’llneverbeableto__that!”

DOWN

1 Period with a noticeable lack

of feline fossils

2 Employ again

3 “Men in Black” role

4 Wall Street regulatory org. 5 Chortles

6 Skunk aftermath

7 Four-time Pro Bowl quarterback who never made it to the Super Bowl

8 Affectional orientation abbr. 9 Bolted

10 2000s teen drama that

introduced “Chrismukkah” 11 Pencil puzzle

12 Story line?

13 Big fuss

15 Japanese drama

19 Certain sib

24 Ancient kings who wore

nemes headdresses 26 Jellystone resident

28 Actor Bana

29 Fund

30 Set down

32 End a fast

36 “If __ Street Could Talk” 39 Cereal with collectible boxes 40 Gruff protest

41 Lightweight clog

42 Singer’s challenge

43 Spanish article

44 Request

49 Besmirched

51 Some gender-fluid people 52 Tranquility

53 Swahili for “thank you” 55 Pearly whites

56 Soup sometimes served

with banh mi

60 Cooling systs.

61 Island near Kauai 63 Ghanaian writer __ Kwei Armah 65 Get weepy

66 With it

67 Sardine can