Today's 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 short-term 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
DOWN
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