L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “I suppose it's true!”

7 Cab opening

11 Middle ear?

14 Beseech

16 Treasury Dept. concern

17 Oft-torn knee pt.

18 *Promo for long-range

basket shooters?

20 Passable grade

21 Girl's name that means “small river”

22 Hop back in horror

23 Teensy bits

25 Actor Omar

27 *Easy-to-revisit search engine results?

29 Title Pixar fish

31 Tiller's tool

32 Give or take

34 Bring on

38 Wild garlic

42 *Frilly fabric from the Middle East?

45 Actress Redgrave

46 Eclipse

47 “The gloves are off!”

48 Some tense periods, briefly

50 Gp. that includes the UAE and Gabon

51 *Award coveted by directors Anderson and Craven?

58 Totally on board

61 Star part

62 Neatens

64 Negative conjunction

65 AI exec, perhaps

66 Musical with the song “Put On a Happy Face,” and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues

69 “Not a mouse!”

70 Actress Skye

71 Follows shampoo bottle instructions

72 Booze-free

73 Horn sound

74 Dusty or Cody of pro wrestling fame

DOWN

1 Reading length

2 Square

3 Secure, in a way

4 Billy Joe Armstrong bandmate __ Cool

5 Suds

6 Float past

7 Endangerment

8 Reason to boil water

9 Stock market name

10 Part of Roy G. Biv

11 Arizona roadside sights

12 Antarctic, for one

13 Word after a sneeze

15 Fajita-like fare

19 Slow moo-ver

24 Runs

26 Moment of unpleasantness

28 Drag org.

30 GPS option

32 Everything

33 Baffin, for one

34 Post-ER facility

35 Gain

36 Mark Kurlansky book subtitled “A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World”

37 Vehicle for E.T.

39 Ran away (with)

40 Mine, in Milan

41 Hook's nemesis

43 Winning margin

44 Tear

49 Cheap

50 Sign of poor service?

51 Covertly added to an email

52 Foodie website

53 __ quartz

54 Memo taker

55 Lhasa locale

56 Big name in

frozen treats

57 Cambodian currency

59 Valley with many

vineyards

60 __ the part

63 “Star Wars” bad guys

67 Teo __ of “Past Lives”

68 Pi follower