L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 *Mean message

9 Administer an oath to 16 2018 SAG Life Achievement Award honoree

17 Above it all, in a way 18 Featured dishes

19 Grassy expanse

20 Impassive

22 Skewed view

23 Walk leisurely

27 *Occasion for hiring

a babysitter

29 Beers served with

lime

32 Grubhub link

33 Persia, today

34 “Hidden Figures”

org.

36 Jazz great who was the first AfricanAmerican man to win a Grammy

41 *”So Much to Say”

Grammy winners 45 Nocturnal sound 46 50+ group

47 Microsoft search

engine

48 Spring

51 Pungent cleanser 53 *Fits together

neatly

58 Put into words

59 Disney’s “_ _ and the

Detectives”

60 Hailed 63 Philadelphia school whose teams are the Explorers

65 Lucrative venture 70 Harness racer

71 Minor issue?

72 Stops

73 Mushy message, and the end of a sequence that progresses through the answers to the starred clues DOWN

1 Consumes

2 Swiss mountain

3 _ _ kwon do

4 Env. insert

5 _ _ name

6 Banned fruit spray

7 Without much

thought

8 Performed light

surgery on?

9 Fla. recreation spot 10 Norton in “The Shawshank Redemption,” for one

11 Portuguese feminine

pronoun

12 Excuse

13 Outfit again

14 Whitlock Jr. of “The

Wire” and “Veep” 15 Arms treaty subj. 21 Big name in pianos 23 Corrosive

compounds

24 Colonel called “the second most dangerous man in London” by Sherlock Holmes

25 “Way to go!”

26 Introvert

28 Worn-down pencils 30 Santa _ _ winds

31 Posed (for)

35 Swingline insert

37 Cloister leader

38 Canonized one

39 Concave navel

40 Painter Degas

42 Cheesy sandwich 43 Pitching stat

44 Typing stat

49 Young bird of prey 50 Broadcasters

52 Confuse

53 Atlanta-based

airline

54 Astrologer Sydney 55 Cap brim

56 Thrill to pieces

57 “The Goldbergs”

actor George

61 Like deli orders

62 Hgt.

64 Capt.’s underlings 66 Max. opposite

67 “I think,” in texts 68 Minor quibble

69 Bastille Day time