LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Keep an eye on

6 Early riser?

9 Folded fare

14 Vegan beauty brand

15 Tax pro

16 Surname of Bo and Sunny

17 “Despacito” singer Luis

18 Tablet download

19 Taking a personal day, say

20 Cube root of eight

21 When an album drops, e.g.

24 46-Down Emmy winner Gilda

26 Divest of wrapping paper, perhaps

27 Decongest

29 “¡Hasta luego!”

31 “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” actress Little __

32 Far from fresh

33 Spot for a soak

36 Big goal

38 “I wonder ... ”

39 Clean a spill

41 Taking a personal day, say

42 Pungent bulb

44 Dig up

45 Chicken homes

46 Street __

48 Edamame units

49 Food word that is plural in Italian but singular in English

51 Chad Michael Murray teen drama set in North Carolina

54 Brief “I can’t unhear that”

57 Rock icon Smith who wrote the memoir “Just Kids”

58 Crossed (out)

59 Golden beer

61 Scandal-plagued energy company

62 Is for you?

63 Upscale Honda

64 “Nothing __!”

65 Shirt size: Abbr.

66 Country on the Gulf of Aden

DOWN

1 Drift on the breeze

2 Declare openly

3 *Staff symbol for a bassoon piece

4 Items in jewel cases

5 Coif

6 Beaufort __

7 Layer in which space stations orbit Earth, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have?

8 Cabbage in baechu kimchi

9 *Symphonic composition that evokes another art form

10 Homes

11 Settlementbuilding game with hexagonal tiles

12 Exclude

13 Levelheaded

22 Lang. of Canada

23 Planter contents

25 Penne __ vodka

27 Back up, on a PC

28 Foam toy brand

30 2017 Kendrick Lamar album

32 Endorse as a couple, in slang

33 *Wig adhesive

34 Fourth-down play

35 Bonobos, e.g.

37 *Accessory that changes color

40 Country northeast of 66-Across

43 Bouquet

45 “The fabric of our lives,” per an ad slogan

46 NBC show with Punkie Johnson

47 “A Few Figs From Thistles” writer

48 __ dish

50 Helped

51 Piece with a view

52 Prefix with bot

53 LSAT, e.g.

55 Only

56 Country north of

40-Down

60 Pro