L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Push, as a button

6 Scuff, say

9 Air rifle

14 Mint with a Coca-Cola flavor

16 Language suffix

17 Russian crepes 18 Single-celled creature 19 Pint equivalent 21 “Yellowjackets” actress Purnell

23 Customizable Nintendo avatar

24 Actress Falco

25 DC Comics' Clown Princess of Crime 29 Re-re-re-reminds

30 “Rudy” coach Parseghian 31 WrestleMania win

32 Facts, for short

34 Clobbers, quaintly 37 __ Buddhism

39 Tennis icon Arthur 42 Members of royal courts who may be crowned at halftime

46 Like a Mega Millions

jackpot winner

47 NYSE debut

48 Open, as a onesie

49 Noisy car part

51 “Weekend Update” comic

Michael 53 LED TV brand

54 Ball in a craft store

57 Deluxe

61 Mine, in Marseille

62 22-Down monitoring org. 63 Aquatic mammal

64 Feels apprehensive

67 Planet orbited by a moon

named Margaret

71 Outperform

72 Official calling pitch clock

violations

73 City east of Los Angeles 74 Desert sanctuaries

75 Part of LGBTQ+

76 Teen sleuth Drew

DOWN

1 Booster gp. for schools

2 Crater's edge

3 __ mode: energy-saving

car setting

4 Iron alloy

5 Ferret's cousin

6 “Not my fave”

7 “Same for me”

8 Replacing the inner layer

of

9 Smoky chip flavor, briefly 10 Puritanical people

11 Celebrity chef De

Laurentiis

12 Strip of equipment

13 Informal evenings

15 Caribbean music genre 20 Literary Huckleberry 22 Pollution stat

25 __ browns

26 Samurai's protection 27 Maguire's “Spider-Man” director

28 Open, as a gym bag 33 Mythical man-goat 35 Method

36 Reverberate

38 Father of Methuselah 40 Painter Matisse

41 Make into law 43 Headphone jack insert 44 Get in line

45 Fix, at the vet's office 50 Actress Seehorn 52 Command ctrs., and a description of five answers in this puzzle 54 “Yippee!”

55 Appliance maker

56 Tokens of love

58 Letter before delta 59 Yankee slugger Judge 60 Peruvian pack animal 65 FedEx rival

66 Eve in “Killing Eve,” for one

68 The “N” of NFT

69 Mom's bro

70 “May I just __ ... “