The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Ewes’ guys

5 Jazz great James

9 Term illustrated by the starts of 39and 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 17and 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