L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ewes' guys
5 Jazz great James
9 Term illustrated by the starts of 39- and 44-Across
14 Director Kazan
15 Some skinny jeans
16 See 11-Down
17 __ paper: baking layer
19 Duvernay film set in
Alabama
20 Diamond gems
22 Way, way off
23 Mood-stabilizing
hormone
25 Ante
28 Solidify
29 California's Big __
30 Place for a stay
33 Souvlaki meat
35 Put away the groceries?
37 Term illustrated by the starts of 17- and 20-Across
39 Outwit
41 Cybergiggle
43 Dirties
44 Package
46 Director Anderson
48 Symbol on the Flash's
chest
49 Farm pen
50 Siete menos cinco
52 Cable channel with a
“superstar” wine club
54 Univ. aides
55 Initiates legal action
58 Red outside, maybe
61 Complex units
65 Watchdog breed
67 Cheaters
68 Kidney-related
69 “__ cost you!”
70 Bog fuel
71 Term illustrated by parts
of 61- and 67-Across
72 Kenneth of fashion
73 Dessert brand
DOWN
1 Default action, briefly
2 “Einstein's Dreams”
novelist Lightman
3 Swampy land
4 Goldman __
5 Target of some bark
beetles
6 Stay dry?
7 Core belief
8 Team that lost the 2019 World Series to the Nationals
9 Some coll. degrees
10 “Channel Orange” Grammy winner Frank
11 With 16-Across, 9-, 37-, or 71-Across, for any given hole
12 Writer Bombeck
13 2022, e.g.
18 Goes quickly
21 Slight
24 Mystery writer Johansen
25 Falls heavily
26 Charged
27 __ board
30 “Canadian __”: “Weird Al” parody of a Green Day song
31 Nabisco wafer brand
32 Mouse pads?
34 Tampa NFLER
36 Haul
38 Corddry of HBO'S
“Ballers”
40 Mani-__
42 “Time to bounce”
45 1970 Kinks hit
47 Sink on purpose
51 __ tank
53 “The Emancipation of __”: Mariah Carey album
55 Prenatal
56 Took care of
57 ASU'S home
58 Red inside,
maybe
59 SUNDVIK baby
furniture retailer
60 __-pong
62 Requirement
63 Highchair surface
64 Retired jets
66 Flagon fill