LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Oxygen’s atomic number

6 “It all happened so fast” memory

10 Sailboat pole

14 Philosopher Kierkegaard

15 Church recess

16 Beauty store chain

17 Bee with fabric squares

20 Car care brand

21 Letting in air, as a door

22 Safe URL starter

23 Grover’s buddy

25 Watery expanse

26 Bee on TV 34 Frock

35 Numero di colori on the Italian flag

36 Nanny __

37 Cacophony

38 Shows respect to, in a way

42 Fib

43 “Insecure” star Rae

45 Longtime Dodgers announcer Scully

46 Hollers

48 Bee in a classroom

52 Passing craze

53 St. Louis landmark

54 Like Andean pyramids

57 Fitzgerald of jazz

59 Actor McKellen

62 Bee near flowers

66 Norwegian saint

67 British baby carriage

68 Letter after beta

69 Journalist Bash who co-hosts CNN’s “State of the Union”

70 Not minding one’s manners

71 Elizabeth of “WandaVision”

DOWN

1 Lawyer’s letters

2 Informal promises of repayment

3 Stubborn determination

4 “Look for the __”: advice from Mr. Rogers

5 Dynamite letters

6 Bluegrass strings

7 Lexi Thompson’s org.

8 World power in many spy-fi novels

9 Drummond of the Food Network

10 Ford that’s the namesake of the “pony car” class of autos

11 Landed

12 Discontinue

13 Shades on the beach

18 Veterinary Formula brand

19 __ butter

24 Not as expensive

25 “Peter Pan” pirate

26 __ Ababa

27 Like fresh lettuce

28 Far from relaxed

29 Wounded by a bee 30 Museum collection

31 “The Power of Now” writer Eckhart

32 Comes (from)

33 “This is only __”

39 Like devoted fans

40 “His Dark Materials” actor __-Manuel Miranda

41 Match, as sound and video

44 Sprouts source

47 Guided by good

49 Bowler’s assignment

50 Blondie hit with the lyric “Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any way”

51 __ hygiene

54 Apple gadget

55 Mardi Gras city,

familiarly

56 Family unit

57 Off-white hue

58 Dryer capacity

60 Cash dispensers

61 Coastal Alaskan town

63 “Morning Edition” network

64 Sense of self

65 Skedaddled