‘shore thing’

ACROSS

1 Chip with toppings 6 Embassy employee

13 Loud noisemaker

15 Knights ___ (Catholic crusaders) 16 Makes happy

17 Wardrobe fresheners 18 Legume that sounds like a letter 19 Make very happy

21 “No ___, ands or buts!”

22 Used to be

23 The “R” of BART

26 About 30 percent of Earth’s land 29 One Night in Miami star Goree 31 Where a pop-up may send you 35 Emerald or aquamarine 37 Love, in Italian

39 Price add-on

40 Fertility lab eggs

41 Arrivals of notable things

43 Bit of gear for a cross-country trip? 44 Stimpy’s pal

45 Dough raiser 46 Domesticates 48 Inconsequential matter

50 Pull to a garage

52 Period before Easter 53 Memory failure 55 Silent communication syst. 57 Altar vow 59 Bert’s friend 61 Afternoon snooze 64 Proportionately 67 Far from forthcoming 69 Turtle candy ingredient 70 Diabolical 71 Coastal region, or what each starred answer has?

72 Holy council DOWN

1 River in Egypt

2 The “A” of BART

3 With some of 4-Down and all of 22-Down, shoo

4 Book after Daniel

5 End of an ultimatum 6 Befuddled

7 With some of 6-Down and all of 24-Down, disentangle

8 Film lover’s network 9 Ladybugs’ prey

10 Staff symbol, in music

11 Thrown into a metaphorical ring 12 Trauma ctrs.

13 Tablet download 14 Code-cracking org. 20 Three-month period 22 Technique

24 Role

25 Latin for “that is”

26 Scrub, as a mission

27 Cut off

28 Persian, today

30 It may cool into obsidian 32 Response to “Who’s there?” 33 Spoken for

34 Be

36 Woman in a Derek and Dominos hit 38 Aware of

42 With some of 54-Down and all of 66-Down, well-established

47 With some of 56-Down and all of 68-Down, versatile type of tire 49 Groups of plants 51 Relinquishes

54 Black Panthers cofounder Bobby 56 Disreputable

57 “Dies ___” (hymn)

58 Explorer on Nick Jr.

60 His home is next to Homer’s

61 El ___ (cause of disrupted weather) 62 Fired up

63 Ab’s neighbor

64 Some laptops

65 Parisian pal

66 Actor Danson

68 “My boy”