NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bit of resistance 4 Where or why, in Latin 7 Pats, e.g., before 1970 13 Nowhere to be found, informally 14 Radius neighbor 16 Subject of a notable 2016 referendum 17 “The only serious thing in the world,” per Oscar Wilde 18 Manhattan’s ___ Village 19 Mercury, on the periodic table 20 Biography subtitled “The Invention of India” 22 Able but unwilling to read

24 It’s debatable 25 Stadium cry

26 Trifling amount 27 Perceived intuitively 30 Exam that takes 2 hrs. and 45 mins.

33 It has a top and a bottom with nothing in between

36 Damage

the reputation of

37 Do monumental work? 38 Trounce, informally 39 Get seen by, like,

everyone

42 Bird whose wings are used as stabilizers, not for flying

43 Old English Christmas

meat 45 France’s ___ du Bourget

46 Joshed

48 Back in the day 49 Ljubljana resident 51 Fast-food inits. 53 “Vous êtes ___” 54 Words of compassion 58 Buckskins

61 1953 prize for Churchill 62 Ride to the World Trade

Center

63 Give ___ (yank)

65 It ends in diciembre 66 At original speed, musically

67 When repeated, Mork’s sign-off

68 Motor oil brand

69 Like New York City drivers, in popular belief

70 Soak (up) 71 Oxford-to-London dir.

DOWN

1 Neighbor of a Yemeni 2 56-Down, across the 15-Down

3 Numbers class, in England

4 41-Down, across the 15-Down

5 Suffix with form 6 Comedian Aziz

7 Drive a getaway car for, say

8 52-Down, across the 15-Down 9 Surfer’s tether 10 35-Down, across the 15-Down

11 Film director Martin 12 Ocular malady 15 “Pond” 21 Designer Gernreich 23 “Rumor has it …” 28 Early strings

29 Male duck 31 Crowning point 32 What a load might land with

33 Common clown name 34 Triumphant boast 35 10-Down, across the

15-Down

40 Bona fide

41 4-Down, across the

15-Down

44 Phrase differently, as a question

47 Like the BBC’s headquarters, architecturally 50 Prospects

52 8-Down, across the

15-Down

55 Take down a peg 56 2-Down, across the 15-Down

57 Avoid having an arranged marriage, maybe

58 Honeybunch 59 Caesarean rebuke 60 Past the regulation

period, informally 64 One, to Juan