Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Mediterranean isle for which a style of pants is named

6 Periodic table’s

Pb

10 Female lobsters 14 Butcher’s

garment

15 Killer whale 16 Lobster catcher 17 Takes hold 18 *Bureaucratic obstacle to environmental projects 20 Portuguese

greeting

21 “Call Me by Your

Name” name 23 Declined, with “out” 24 *Extreme winterweather event 28 Before, in verse 29 Dolly Parton hit 33 Nonpoetic writing 36 Phobia

38 Daffy or Bugs 40 *Nickname for a Mozart work in C major

43 Pit

44 Tons

45 Lather, __, repeat 46 Aspirations

48 PC alternative 49 *Writer of the 2023 legal thriller “The Exchange” 55 Tyler of “Whose

Line Is It Anyway?” 59 Cereal grain 60 Prefix with

tourism 61 Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has 64 Boise’s state 66 Couple of

magazines? 67 Mayberry boy 68 When the sun

rises in the west 69 Dishwashing brand used to clean animals after oil spills 70 D.C. MLB team 71 Honking birds

DOWN

1 Chocolate substitute 2 Speed skater

Ohno

3 Many a charity

tournament

4 Go bad

5 Behind closed

doors

6 Puzzle solver’s

skill

7 Former “CNN Newsroom” anchor Barnett 8 Blackjack card 9 Actor Daniel __

Kim

10 URL intro 11 Q.E.D. part 12 Travel pillow spot 13 Raced

19 Fielding of “The Great British Bake Off” 22 Caustic chemical 25 Next to

26 “Love Train”

group, with “The” 27 Convention 30 Law school

course

31 Midday 32 Geological spans 33 Comfy attire that’s

rarely worn out? 34 Regretted 35 Abbr. on old

phones 36 Future soph 37 Contractor’s fig. 39 “Science Guy”

Bill

41 Red “Sesame

Street” resident 42 Lauding 47 Somewhat open 48 “Rocky III” actor

with a mohawk 50 Like three Justin Verlander games 51 Stadium entries 52 Throw

53 __ and pains 54 Boxing legend

Archie 55 Caustic

chemical

56 Little bit

57 Gush

58 Church song 62 Charged particle 63 Transcript fig. 65 Dead end?