LA Times Daily Crossword September 8, 2022 Answers

1. *Mean message 9. Administer an oath to 16. 2018 SAG Life Achievement Award honoree 17. Above it all, in a way 18. Featured dishes 19. Grassy expanse 20. Impassive 22. Skewed view 23. Walk leisurely 27. *Occasion for hiring a babysitter 29. Beers served with lime 32. Grubhub link 33. Persia, today 34. "Hidden Figures" org. 36. Jazz great who was the first African-American man to win a Grammy 41. *"So Much to Say" Grammy winners 45. Nocturnal sound 46. 50+ group 47. Microsoft search engine 48. Spring 51. Pungent cleanser 53. *Fits together neatly 58. Put into words 59. Disney's "__ and the Detectives" 60. Hailed 63. Philadelphia school whose teams are the Explorers 65. Lucrative venture 70. Harness racer 71. Minor issue? 72. Stops 73. Mushy message, and the end of a sequence that progresses through the answers to the starred clues

1. Consumes 2. Swiss mountain 3. __ kwon do 4. Env. insert 5. __ name 6. Banned fruit spray 7. Without much thought 8. Performed light surgery on? 9. Fla. recreation spot 10. Norton in "The Shawshank Redemption," for one 11. Portuguese feminine pronoun 12. Excuse 13. Outfit again 14. Whitlock Jr. of "The Wire" and "Veep" 15. Arms treaty subj. 21. Big name in pianos 23. Corrosive compounds 24. Colonel called "the second most dangerous man in London" by Sherlock Holmes 25. "Way to go!" 26. Introvert 28. Worn-down pencils 30. Santa __ winds 31. Posed (for) 35. Swingline insert 37. Cloister leader 38. Canonized one 39. Concave navel 40. Painter Degas 42. Cheesy sandwich 43. Pitching stat 44. Typing stat 49. Young bird of prey 50. Broadcasters 52. Confuse 53. Atlanta-based airline 54. Astrologer Sydney 55. Cap brim 56. Thrill to pieces 57. "The Goldbergs" actor George 61. Like deli orders 62. Hgt. 64. Capt.'s underlings 66. Max. opposite 67. "I think," in texts 68. Minor quibble 69. Bastille Day time