LA Times Daily Crossword April 17, 2023 Answers

1. Hornets and yellow jackets 6. Meghan Trainor's "All __ That Bass" 11. Poorly lit 14. Change 15. Italian grandma 16. Earth-friendly prefix 17. *"Don't be a stranger!" 19. Word with baseball or bottle 20. Former flames 21. Mischievous types 22. Screen symbols 24. "Save Your Tears" singer Grande 26. Begin 27. *Vision in the mind's eye 31. Celeb's entourage 35. Many moons __ 36. Resting on 37. Poker buy-ins 38. Prez on a fiver 39. Military unit 40. "Watch your __!" 41. Kerfuffle 42. Trumpets and tubas 43. *Enthusiastic compliment in the fitting room 47. Utopias 48. Familiar saying 52. Soul singer Baker 53. "Creations from la cocina" brand 55. Ninny 57. Weeding tool 58. Completely wrong, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are? 61. Curvy letter 62. "August: __ County": Meryl Streep film 63. Novelist Jong 64. Intersected 65. Lose it 66. Sign on many doors

1. Rouse from sleep 2. Apple : Siri :: Amazon : __ 3. Take the helm 4. One side in the cola wars 5. __ Lanka 6. Insect-sized superhero played by Paul Rudd 7. Jazz Age cartoon Betty __ 8. Heavy burden 9. Duke's ACC rival 10. Island in French Polynesia 11. Interior designer 12. Melodramatic cry of exhaustion 13. Unkempt dos 18. Number of innings in most baseball games 23. Chevy muscle car 25. Iowa city north of Des Moines 26. __-mo 28. Definite no-no 29. Mature 30. "Love & Basketball" actor Omar 31. Yesteryear 32. Precisely 33. Most reliable, in a way 34. Days of the week, e.g. 38. Pop-ups in many free apps 39. Dull impact sound 41. Braying quadruped 44. Rather out of it 45. Fluctuated wildly 46. Elsa and Anna's snowman pal 49. Back of a boat 50. Eagerly expect 51. Show a bit of pain 52. "I can hear you, you know" 53. Glitzy genre 54. Gymnast Korbut 56. Bygone Russian ruler 59. GI entertainers 60. Honey-making pollinator