Crossword No. 713:

What Month Is This?

ACROSS

1 UPS truck color 6 Part of PBR 11 Big Ben clock setting (abbr.) 14 Survival ___ fittest 15 Amazon assistant 16 Paddle’s cousin 17 Annual celebration in Munich that began this year on...well, Sept. 16 19 Business with relaxing music 20 Fences playwright not named for the month he was born in, but after his father, who...well, he wasn’t born in that month, either 22 Little lie 25 Reaction to a funny text 26 Desires 27 Maker of Ultrabounce running shoes 29 Bacon’s Italian cousin 33 It may become unhinged 34 Diet with few carbs 35 Cruise around Hollywood? 36 Overcast California weather phenomenon that often starts in...well, early spring 40 Tech’s workplace, often 43 “Fellow pirate” 44 Coco Gauff’s target 48 Furnished 50 Sound heard during shearing 52 Take a right, say 53 “___ the ramparts we watched...” 54 Stack of music 55 Athletic extravaganza whose next tournament’s final game will be played on...well, April 4 61 Classic record label 62 Two and a Half Men and Drop Dead Diva actress who was born in...well, the summer of 1980 66 Flying mammal 67 Prefix with processor or transmitter 68 Gullible 69 Brian in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 70 Vice president under Nixon 71 Small earrings

DOWN

1 Sound of an unhappy fan 2 ___ Jr. (presidential candidate) 3 Capital of Can. 4 Response to a wild allegation 5 Astronomy term that’s Latin for “mist” 6 New Yorker book critic ___ Sehgal 7 Landon and Clausen, for two 8 Borscht root 9 Annual Austin event 10 French comic actor Jacques 11 An Officer and a Gentleman Oscar winner Lou ___ Jr. 12 Correlate precisely with 13 Classic Pontiac 18 They may clash 21 Soap component 22 Fidget spinners, e.g. 23 Altar agreement 24 Prefix with degradable 28 Hoops legend 29 ___ through (skimmed, as a book) 30 Partner 31 Prefix with classical or liberal 32 Make dove sounds 34 Secretary Buttigieg 37 “Strike three!” shouter 38 Afternoon refresher 39 Future CEO, maybe 40 “Just go away!” 41 Jason Momoa role 42 Food that means “little donkey” in Spanish 45 Generation Gap network 46 Young fellow 47 Part of LV 49 Business abbr. 50 London-based TV channel, with “the” 51 Some insurance fraud cases 53 Running softly, as a fan 56 1985 U.S. Open women’s champ Mandlikova 57 Film file 58 Give someone ___ for their money 59 ___ Straits (“Money for Nothing” band) 60 Use a porch weapon 63 Lucy in Elementary 64 Fruit of the Loom rival 65 “Naturally!”