Flowers
Across
| 1. One might be hitched | RIDE |
| 5. Exploits | USES |
| 9. Prolonged unconscious states | COMAS |
| 14. Genesis location | EDEN |
| 15. Idina Menzel’s big break | RENT |
| 16. Gone with the Wind’s Scarlet | OHARA |
| 17. Matter of ____ | FACT |
| 18. Woman’s blouse | LADYSSMOCK |
| 20. Communist (scare) | RED |
| 22. “J’accuse!” reply? | MOI |
| 23. Cryophobe’s fear | ICE |
| 24. Eternal | EVERLASTING |
| 29. Message in the sand, for short | SOS |
| 30. Word before toe or off | TIP |
| 31. Symbol of justice | SCALE |
| 32. Bored Apes, for example | NFTS |
| 34. Home to 60 percent of the world’s population | ASIA |
| 36. Partner of Tac | TIC |
| 37. One who runs a business | CEO |
| 38. Held (onto) | LATCHED |
| 40. Yawn inducer | BOREDOM |
| 44. Possessed | HAD |
| 45. Michael Jordan’s ___ game | FLU |
| 46. How one might feel after a workout | SORE |
| 47. Métis political leader | RIEL |
| 49. University and museum offerings | TOURS |
| 51. Little, to a Scot | WEE |
| 52. Until now | YET |
| 53. “I want to be remembered” | FORGETMENOT |
| 56. Eggs, in labs | OVA |
| 57. Terrible age | TWO |
| 58. Rested, in a way | SAT |
| 59. Fairy tale character who likes porridge | GOLDILOCKS |
| 64. Undersurface of a foot | SOLE |
| 67. Pelvic bone | ILIUM |
| 68. Santa Monica landmark | PIER |
| 69. Subjects of baa-a-ad puns? | EWES |
| 70. “All the world’s a ___” | STAGE |
| 71. Utters | SAYS |
| 72. Feature of the common cold | SNOT |
Down
| 1. Official akin to an ump | REF |
| 2. Journalist and civil rights activist, B. Wells | IDA |
| 3. Dilapidated | DECREPIT |
| 4. Key above shift | ENTER |
| 5. Web address | URL |
| 6. Sargasso or Black | SEA |
| 7. This Is the ___ | END |
| 8. Prevent | STYMIE |
| 9. A loan-seeker may need one | COSIGNER |
| 10. Electrical resistance unit | OHM |
| 11. Follower of a Chinese chairman’s ideology | MAOIST |
| 12. Inverse trigonometry function | ARCCOS |
| 13. Japanese rice wines | SAKES |
| 19. The prodigal one | SON |
| 21. Employer of many Jackman students, for short | DLS |
| 24. “and others” | ETAL |
| 25. Traveler’s permit | VISA |
| 26. Did something | ACTED |
| 27. Past tense of 71-across | SAID |
| 28. Network for Sister Wives | TLC |
| 33. Adams and Jefferson to each other, e.g. | FOES |
| 35. Mild pain | ACHE |
| 37. Squash or trial locale | COURT |
| 39. Rihanna’s recent performance window | HALFTIME |
| 40. Gloomy | BLUE |
| 41. South of Bloor, perhaps | DOWNTOWN |
| 42. Black-and-white treat | OREO |
| 43. Greet’s partner | MEET |
| 45. Cause for low beams | FOG |
| 47. Rise up (against) | REVOLT |
| 48. Roma’s home | ITALIA |
| 49. Armed forces | TROOPS |
| 50. Texting format, for short | SMS |
| 52. Tree pose experts | YOGIS |
| 54. Symbol of wisdom | OWL |
| 55. Makes less burdensome | EASES |
| 60. What Shia LaBeouf did in Holes | DUG |
| 61. KGB adversary | CIA |
| 62. Way to one’s heart | KEY |
| 63. Consequential, slang | SRS |
| 65. One who is likely born in August | LEO |
| 66. Inexact no. | EST |