LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ewes’ guys

5 Jazz great James 9 Term illustrated by the starts of 39- and 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 Moodstabilizing hormone

25 Ante28 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

17- and 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 61and 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