L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 FX for some Marvel characters

4 '30s veep John __ Garner

9 Different

14 __ & Hammer baking

soda

15 Throw for __: upset

16 Lumbering critter seen

on safaris

17 Make like Drake

18 Hot dog topper

19 Gave up formally

20 “That's what we agreed

on”

23 La., once

24 Latin word for “brought

back” used in titles

25 Haleakala National Park

locale

29 “Can't argue with the

truth”

32 Period of time

34 Bollywood wrap

35 Who, in Paris

36 Tic-__-toe

37 Drink suffix

40 Inc.'s U.K. cousin

41 Coffee dispenser

42 Pertinent

43 Ostracize

45 Barely making, with “out”

47 “Can't fight City Hall” 51 One-named “Pillowtalk”

singer

52 Pitney __

53 Puerto __

56 “That's life” ... and a summing-up of 20-, 29and 47-Across

59 Baby Yoda's real name

62 Workout regimen

63 Rollover acronym

64 Wavy dos

65 HR assessments

66 Mork's home planet

67 Tiptoe deviously

68 “For __ sake!”

69 Long of “Empire”

DOWN

1 Jeweler's measure

2 Test score

3 In a flawed way

4 Salt formula

5 Trumpet great with a

statue in New Orleans

6 Creaks and shrieks

7 Piña __: rum drinks

8 Anesthetic injection that

eases pain

9 Black-and-white ocean

predator

10 Louise's title pal

11 Kept out of sight

12 L.A.-to-Chicago dir. 13 Curtain holder

21 Devastated sea

22 Use, as influence

26 Corporate expansion

tactic

27 Turnpike no-no, usually

28 “Of Thee __”

30 Many a Zoom session

31 Castro of Cuba

32 Cable network that's a homophone for movie headliners

33 __ New Guinea

38 Abu __

39 Tricky basketball footwork named for the continent of its origin

44 '70s-'80s genre associated with the Knack's “My Sharona”

46 Actress Russell

48 Real puzzle

49 Nuke, as leftovers

50 Of service

54 Clouds that sound like a

virtual assistant

55 Japanese port

57 Warthog weapon

58 Throw easily

59 Navig. technology

60 Stimpy's sidekick

61 Iron mine output