L.A TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 __ test
5 Oft-poached pear
9 With 9-Down,
Thanksgiving dessert
14 Arm bone
15 Bar mixer
16 Fuming
17 Some baby shower
honorees
18 *Big moth
20 “Da 5 Bloods” actor
Whitlock Jr.
22 Cookbook writer
Garten
23 Choose
24 *Theater debt
29 “Makes sense”
30 False front?
33 ETA provider
36 Parker products
38 Made in Taiwan, say
40 “It was even funnier at the time,” or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers
44 Cantaloupe, e.g.
45 Close in anger
46 August hrs.
47 Beach city where Barbie's Dreamhouse is available for short-term rentals
50 Historic times
52 *Frozen state
57 Toward the stern
60 Spacewalk initials 61 Title with a tilde
62 *Title bot
67 Falafel bread
68 Fountain drinks
69 Char on a grill
70 “For real?”
71 Setting for much of
“The Mummy” franchise
72 Like a chimney sweep's
clothes, maybe
73 Wall St. index
DOWN
1 Component of selfguided museum tours
2 Necklace fastener
3 Nonstudio flick
4 Fiji competitor
5 Secretly include,
in a way
6 “I'm impressed!”
7 Done in, as
a dragon
8 Opposite of
dogbane?
9 See 9-Across
10 Add salt instead
of sugar, say
11 Baja resort, familiarly
12 Perched on
13 “What else ya got?”
19 Price points?
21 __ Heritage Month: September 15 to October 15
25 Require 26 Gallant guy
27 Products of thermal
imaging
28 Derriere
31 Faded out
32 Sculler's tools
33 Muscle building?
34 Ada Limón work
35 Toni Morrison's
second novel
37 “Help us!” letters
39 __ zero emissions
41 Colorful Hindu festival
42 “Sacre __!”
43 Countess
counterpart
48 Emmy-winning
Ali Wong series
49 Certain travel doc.
51 Attempt to mediate
53 Batting practice sites
54 Harmony
55 Flatbreads made
with atta flour
56 Wipe clean
57 Recess on a Catholic
school campus?
58 Mesopotamian
symbol of fertility
59 Neat
63 Cook in the
microwave
64 Rough fig.
65 “Shows you!”
66 Attempt