L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1__ test

5Oft-poached pear

9 With 9-Down,

Thanksgiving dessert

14Arm bone

15 Bar mixer

16Fuming 17Some baby shower

honorees

18 *Big moth

20“Da 5 Bloods” actor

Whitlock Jr.

22Cookbook writer Garten

23Choose 24*Theater debt

29“Makes sense”

30False front?

33 ETA provider

36Parker products

38Made in Taiwan, say

40 “It was even funnier at the time,” or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers

44Cantaloupe, e.g.

45Close in anger

46 August hrs.

47Beach city where Barbie’s Dreamhouse is available for short-term rentals

50Historic times

52*Frozen state

57Toward the stern 60Spacewalk initials

61Title with a tilde

62*Title bot

67Falafel bread

68Fountain drinks

69Char on a grill

70 “For real?”

71 Setting for much of “The Mummy” franchise

72 Like a chimney sweep’s

clothes, maybe

73Wall St. index

DOWN

1Component of selfguided museum tours

2 Necklace fastener

3 Nonstudio flick

4Fiji competitor

5 Secretly include, in a way

6 “I’m impressed!”

7 Done in, as a dragon

8 Opposite of dogbane?

9 See 9-Across

10Add salt instead of

sugar, say

11 Baja resort, familiarly

12Perched on

13“What else ya got?”

19Price points?

21 __ Heritage Month: September 15 to October 15

25Require

26 Gallant guy 27Products of thermal

imaging

28Derriere

31 Faded out

32Sculler’s tools

33 Muscle building?

34 Ada Limón work

35Toni Morrison’s second

novel

37“Help us!” letters

39__ zero emissions

41 Colorful Hindu festival

42 “Sacre __!”

43 Countess counterpart

48 Emmy-winning Ali

Wong series

49 Certain travel doc.

51 Attempt to mediate

53 Batting practice sites

54Harmony 55 Flatbreads made with

atta flour

56Wipe clean

57Recess on a Catholic

school campus?

58Mesopotamian symbol

of fertility

59Neat

63Cook in the microwave

64 Rough fig.

65 “Shows you!”

66Attempt