L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Day on Mars

4 Crunched numbers

8 Shockingly vivid

13 Clean water org.

14 Inner selves

15 Wretchedness

16 Region of severe

drought in the 1930s

18 Structures that

provide shade

19 At the ready

20 Massive

22 Craigslist abbr.

23 Actress Polo

24 Diner, e.g.

28 Head physician, briefly?

29 Feeds the pigs

30 Light units

31 Assume, as a

responsibility

33 Bank vaults

36 Rochester, New York, dish with meat, fries, and baked beans

39 Question type

40 SoFi Stadium pros

42 Actor Hawke

45 Runs up against?

47 Light touch

49 Hazard for bare feet

in a beach parking lot

52 Cooked up

53 Bluff, maybe

54 Force from power

55 Gives for a while

56 “Doesn't look good for me!”

59 Army dining area, or a punny description of where to find 16-, 24-, 36-, and 49-Across

62 Apt name for someone born on Christmas

63 Operatic solo

64 Narc's org.

65 Class

66 Subsequently

67 Mule kin

DOWN

1 Hardly rowdy

2 Richly appointed

3 Activity that involves taking a shot in the dark?

4 Subject of a congressional ceiling

5 Previously

6 Pull along

7 Like a limb that's all pins and needles

8 “30 Rock” role for Tina

9 Employ

10 Start up again

11 Asimov work with

“Three Laws”

12 Vacuums that have “dual cyclone” technology

15 “I Try” singer Gray

17 Prefix with -athlon

18 Beneficiaries of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, for short

21 Out of style

24 Gooey lumps

25 Journalist Farrow

26 Pinky promises

27 Carb-loader's pre-race meal

29 Like the vibes at a spa

32 Style of boat first used by the Aleut, Inuit, and Yupik peoples

34 Overachiever's test score

35 Shoes that lack heels

37 Aspirational hashtag

38 Savory turnover

41 Seats for equestrians

42 Receding

43 Earthquake

44 Sore throat soother

46 The Caped Crusader

48 Cars that charge slowly in the cold

50 Honker

51 Word before microbiome

52 “It's fine”

55 DA-to-be's exam

57 Long in the tooth

58 Tap pour

60 Before, poetically

61 __-pack abs