CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 California’s __ Verdes Peninsula

6 Historic shrine

11 Cleaning crew item

14 Beautify

15 Antique photo color

16 Youngest March sister

17 Leaping grab of a would-be homer, say

19 Sleep study letters

20 Based on sound reasoning

21 “Fantastic!”

23 Go after, in a way

24 Division word

27 Hardly at all

29 Christian house of worship in Egypt

33 Word with place or door

34 Legal suspension

35 __ de Cologne

36 Many tax software users

40 Deal with

42 Barge unit

43 Hitchcock’s “__ Window”

45 Cabbage option

46 Northern glacial formation

50 Villainous look

51 “The Burning Giraffe” artist

52 “__ no surprise”

55 Press down

58 Standard salary

61 Contest involving letter placement

62 Souvenir of a Black Forest vacation

65 Thumbs-up vote

66 Authorize

67 SiriusXM channel

5 tune, say

68 Contractor’s no.

69 Grace word

70 Lab activities

DOWN

1 Treaties

2 Parting word in Paris

3 Michaels of “SNL”

4 Marine predator

5 Cold shoulder

6 Climber’s endeavor

7 Meadow

8 On topic

9 Lapel attachments

10 Locale of the surfing mecca Sunset Beach

11 Hard-to-find group

12 __ Cup

13 Y amenity

18 Minor error

22 Six-time NBA AllStar __ Gasol

25 Carol contraction

26 Numeric prefix

28 In this way

29 So__

30 Cheri of “SNL”

31 Uncouth fellow

32 Many-headed monster

33 Chopped pie filling

36 Bibliography abbr.

37 Anticipates ... or, phonetically, what’s found in puzzle answers of more than 10 letters

38 __ room

39 Came out with

41 Agent

44 Color TV pioneer

47 __TV: Turner channel

48 Some pipe joints

49 Parma parting

52 Touch and others

53 Unspoken

54 Guitarist John who played with Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake

56 Wound cover

57 Seed covering

59 Tony Blair, by birth

60 Fashion magazine since 1945

61 Parting, or half of one

63 NFL’s Browns, on sports crawls

64 Decks, briefly