NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 TV network whose logo is an eye

4 Singer Mitchell who wrote “Woodstock” (but didn’t attend) 8 Whole

14 The “A” of I.P.A. 15 Former Israeli P.M. Ehud

16 ___ Tunes (Warner Bros. cartoons) 17 Epoch of rare distinction

19 Tool for the Grim Reaper

20 Opposites of true believers 21 Optima and Cadenza car company

22 “If only ___ listened …” 23 Archie’s wife on

“All in the Family” 24 Topic of a happy annual report

27 ___ Pieces

29 Celestial Seasonings

product

30 Greet with humility 31 Jul. follower

33 Dow Jones stat. 35 Shocked response 36 Something circled

on a calendar 40 Second-largest

Hawaiian island 42 Aperitif with black

currant liqueur

43 ___ Paulo, Brazil 44 Darkest part of a

shadow

46 Bro, e.g.

48 Concepts not meant to be questioned 53 Period of supreme courage and achievement 56 One-named rap star 57 To and ___ 58 Fact-gathering org. 59 Do a perfunctory performance 61 Substituted “math” for “mass,” say

63 When TV viewership peaks … or a hint to 17-, 24-, 36- and 53-Across 64 Timeless, to

Shakespeare 65 Houses in Havana 66 TV network whose logo

is a peacock

67 Puts back to 0, say 68 X-ray ___ (gag gift) 69 “We all ___ little mad sometimes”: Norman Bates

DOWN

1 More evasive with the truth

2 Marilyn Monroe, notably

3 Something you reach out and take? 4 Author Austen 5 Toothbrush brand 6 Bothers the conscience of 7 Eisenhower, informally 8 Borden milk mascot 9 Like a diet lacking bread or pasta, for short

10 Etch A Sketch or yo-yo 11 Blocking someone’s path

12 Puts back in the oven 13 Visine application 15 Tousled look of the recently woken 18 Counterparts of dahs in Morse code 21 Scoundrels

25 In apple-pie order 26 Mind-body exercise 28 Sit and mope 32 Performer with a fan 34 One finally done with

finals?

36 Kiss like an Eskimo 37 Land of Blarney

38 Duo plus one

39 Idle drawings

40 Part of a car’s exhaust system

41 “You agree with me?,” informally

45 Goal for a mountaineer 47 Trumped-up charge 49 Fortitude

50 Beating at chess 51 With hands on hips 52 ___ Falls, N.Y.

54 Neap and ebb

55 Uplift

60 Big movie format 62 ___-K (early schooling) 63 Mac alternatives