Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Old Hollywood
sex symbol West
4 Hooded winter coat
9 Flinch or gasp, say
14 Computer giant whose motto is “THINK”
15 Go-to crew
16 One-named “Hello” singer
17 *Smartphone download
19 Bricklayer
20 Chris of “The Avengers” (2012)
21 “... to __ it mildly”
23 Prefix meaning “one”
24 Feudal worker
25 *Sheet for plotting
28 Variety show
30 “Delish!”
31 Barbecued pork snack
34 Rain more gently
38 Platform for Siri
39 *Mr. Lube service jobs
42 “If you ask me,” to a texter
43 Basil-and-pinenuts sauce
45 Ideal wheels
47 Observe
49 Rid of vermin
50 *Sample set of buyers used in market research
55 Deep cut
58 Persian Gulf sultanate
59 Statehouse VIP
60 Roast host
61 Part of USNA
63 Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are
66 Recurring motif
67 Soccer shoe gripper
68 Has too much, briefly
69 __ Hawkins Day 70 Learns (of)
71 Eagle or evil organ
DOWN
1 Performers often “trapped” in imaginary boxes
2 Overhead
3 Humiliate
4 Close friends
5 Dug in, at dinner
6 Irish actor Stephen
7 Phi Beta __
8 Increase the intensity of
9 Ewe’s beau
10 Sushi soybean side dish
11 “The Frog and the Fox” fabulist
12 Replicate genetically
13 Barbershop quartet voice
18 Deduce
22 Biblical “your”
25 Expert
26 Harness strap
27 Star that’s also a source of radio waves
29 Presidential rejections
31 Nurse, as a drink
32 “The Raven” poet
33 B and B’s first B
35 Game with x’s and o’s
36 Thurman of “The Avengers” (1998)
37 __ favor
40 Pakistani language
41 “Not a __ out of you!”
44 Tidal wave cousin
46 Igneous rock, once
48 Omelet ingredient
50 Roman and Comic Sans
51 Nebraska city near Boys Town
52 Gave in
53 Exterminator’s target
54 Reproductive cell
56 Like dive bars
57 “Siddhartha” author
60 CPR pros
62 Jeans label
64 Leaves in hot water?
65 Rowboat rower