CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 FX for some

Marvel characters 4 ’30s veep John __

Garner

9 Different

14 __ & Hammer

baking soda

15 Throw for __:

upset

16 Lumbering critter

seen on safaris

17 Make like Drake 18 Hot dog topper

19 Gave up formally 20 “That’s what we

agreed on”

23 La., once

24 Latin word for “brought back” used in titles

25 Haleakala National Park locale

29 “Can’t argue with

the truth”

32 Period of time

34 Bollywoodwrap 35 Who, in Paris

36 Tic-__-toe

37 Drink suffix

40 Inc.’s U.K. cousin

41 Coffee dispenser 42 Pertinent

43 Ostracize

45 Barely making,

with “out”

47 “Can’t fight City

Hall”

51 One-named

“Pillowtalk” singer 52 Pitney __

53 Puerto __

56 “That’s life” ... and a summing-up of 20-, 29- and 47-Across

59 Baby Yoda’s real

name

62 Workout regimen 63 Rollover acronym 64 Wavy dos

65 HR assessments 66 Mork’s home

planet

67 Tiptoe deviously 68 “For __ sake!”

69 Long of “Empire”

DOWN

1 Jeweler’s measure 2 Test score

3 In a flawed way

4 Salt formula

5 Trumpet great with a statue in New Orleans

6 Creaks and shrieks

7 Piña __: rum drinks 8 Anesthetic injection that eases pain 9 Black-and-white

ocean predator 10 Louise’s title pal

11 Kept out of sight 12 L.A.-to-Chicago

dir.

13 Curtain holder

21 Devastated sea 22 Use, as influence 26 Corporate

expansion tactic 27 Turnpike no-no,

usually

28 “Of Thee __”

30 Many a Zoom

session

31 Castro of Cuba 32 Cable network that’s a homophone for movie headliners 33 __ New Guinea 38 Abu __ 39 Tricky basketball footwork named for the continent of its origin

44 ’70s-’80s genre associated with the Knack’s “My Sharona”

46 Actress Russell 48 Real puzzle

49 Nuke, as

leftovers

50 Of service

54 Clouds that sound like a virtual assistant 55 Japanese port

57 Warthog weapon 58 Throw easily

59 Navig.

technology

60 Stimpy’s sidekick

61 Iron mine output