LA TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 __ test 5 Oft-poached pear
9 With 9-Down, Thanksgiving dessert
14 Arm bone
15 Bar mixer 16 Fuming
17 Some baby shower honorees 18 *Big moth 20 “Da 5 Bloods” actor Whitlock Jr. 22 Cookbook writer Garten
23 Choose 24 *Theater debt 29 “Makes sense” 30 False front? 33 ETA provider 36 Parker products 38 Made in Taiwan, say
40 “It was even funnier at the time,” or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers 44 Cantaloupe, e.g. 45 Close in anger 46 August hrs. 47 Beach city where Barbie’s Dreamhouse is available for shortterm rentals 50 Historic times 52 *Frozen state 57 Toward the stern
60 Spacewalk initials 61 Title with a tilde
62 *Title bot 67 Falafel bread 68 Fountain drinks 69 Char on a grill
70 “For real?” 71 Setting for much of “The Mummy” franchise
72 Like a chimney sweep’s clothes, maybe
73 Wall St. index
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1 Component of self-guided museum tours
2 Necklace fastener 3 Nonstudio flick 4 Fiji 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 10 Add salt instead of sugar, say
11 Baja resort, familiarly
12 Perched on 13 “What else ya got?”
19 Price points? 21 __ Heritage Month: September 15 to October 15 25 Require
26 Gallant guy 27 Products of thermal imaging 28 Derriere
31 Faded out 32 Sculler’s tools 33 Muscle building? 34 Ada Limón work
35 Toni 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
54 Harmony 55 Flatbreads made with atta flour 56 Wipe clean 57 Recess on a Catholic school campus? 58 Mesopotamian symbol of fertility
59 Neat
63 Cook in the microwave 64 Rough fig.
65 “Shows you!” 66 Attempt