“It’s Getting Dark” — but it’s supposed to do that.

ACROSS

1. They’re part of the vinyl solution?

4. Young of AC/DC

9. “Guernica” painter Picasso

14. Alley-___ (basketball maneuver)

15. Million-___ odds

16. “I speak for the speaker

17. Win-win deal

19. Still around

20. Conclusion of “Hamilton”

21. Discussion need

23. Grandma, across Atlantic

24. Seasonal reason to get a shot

26. Quite

28. Not built in a home workshop, perhaps

33. ___ Spaghetti (Detroit restaurant co-owned by Eminem)

36. Bard’s instrument

37. 2021 singer of “Easy On Me”

39. “Xanadu” rockers

40. Film editing technique, or what the edges of the theme answers represent

42. “Bloody ___!” (Cockney outburst)

43. Florida critter

45. Guitarist Benjamin and hockey player Bobby

46. It may be trapped in a filter

47. Old-timey emergency service provider trees” the

50. Go off course

51. Comes along

55. “American Dad!” employer

57. Primary impact

61. Layer discussed Inconvenient Truth”

62. Pull some strings?

64. Maryland home of the U.S. Army Field Band

66. Kitchen range

67. Like Lamb Chop or Shaun

68. Chess’s ___ Lopez opening

69. Hurting more

70. Chimney deposits

71. Refreshing resort

DOWN

in

1. Like some yogurt, informally

2. Cook eggs, in a way

3. “In ___ of it all ...”

4. Leader of the Huns

5. “Conjunction Junction” conjunction

6. First-ballot Hall of Famer, presumably

7. Go back, in a way

8. Move like groundwater

9. It may get colored in at dinner

10. “You’ve got mail!” ISP

11. Where pirate ships sink, poetically

12. Obsidian source

13. “Oregon Trail” creatures

18. Jazz motifs

22. Climbing vine

25. Stanford rival

27. “Excellent”

29. Henry VII or Henry VIII, for instance 30. “SNL” castmate of Ferrell and Gasteyer

31. Company shake-up, for short

32. Self-titled 1969 jazz album

33. Former

Whitman

34. Current chancellor Germany Scholz

35. Person who gets you going

38. Street of horror fame

40. Part of a pub concert promotion, perhaps

41. Insurance provider to mil. families

44. Bauxite, e.g.

46. Jump on, as an opportunity

48. “It’s too chilly!”

49. Suffixes that go with stadiums

52. Gets really high

53. Reach a conclusion

54. “Byeeee”

55. Utter some discouraging words

56. Keen on

58. Tabloid craft

59. Porto-___

Benin)

60. Small music group

63. “___ Been Everywhere”

65. Sticks around for a real blast? eBay chief (capital of of