CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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