LA Times Daily Crossword September 19, 2023 Answers

1. Like a grand-scale tale or fail 5. Obligation 9. Activist Thunberg who is the youngest Time Person of the Year 14. Top-ranked 15. Eggplant __: Italian entree, briefly 16. Strung along 17. Civil rights icon Parks 18. Logician's "therefore" 19. "Let me clarify ... " 20. Ability to keep cool under pressure 23. "__ la vie!" 24. Labor Day mo. 25. Small beards 29. Org. whose annual awards are presented at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena 32. Spare in a trunk 33. Male pal 34. Deadly 36. Sought-after guests 38. Sr.'s nest egg acronym 40. Paper unit 41. Laughs at the joke, say 43. Roxy Music co-founder Brian 45. Gutter spot 46. Surname in the freezer aisle 47. Chile that's among the hottest in the world 50. Hip and stylish 51. Tangy 52. "I like your attitude!," and what can be said about the starts of 20-, 25-, and 47-Across? 58. Gaggle members 59. Greek aperitif 60. "Good job" 61. Clear kitchen wrap 62. South American country with most of the world's alpacas 63. Kept in the email loop 64. Build up 65. "__ on the roof / And kicked off the moss": lyrics in Elton John's "Your Song" 66. Squeezes (out)

1. Wyatt of the Old West 2. Below average 3. State of self-doubt 4. Never-ending 5. Subwindow in a browser 6. Drug cop 7. Insist 8. Press into a small space 9. Brief looks 10. Send money 11. Genesis garden 12. Frog kin 13. __ Taylor Loft 21. Sixth sense letters 22. Sense 25. Place for a play 26. Lubricated 27. One more than bi- 28. Pear centers 29. Rock band known for the power ballad "The Flame" 30. Novelist Binchy 31. Change 35. Political treatise by Machiavelli 37. Makes less loose, as screws 39. Aardvark's morsel 42. "Watch __ space" 44. Decides to withdraw 48. Squid kin 49. "The Raven" poet's monogram 50. Homes in Havana 52. United group 53. Olympian queen who cursed Echo 54. Tints 55. Vampire Weekend lead singer Koenig 56. Drink brand with a polar bear in its logo 57. "Bill & __ Excellent Adventure" 58. Govt. property overseer