NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 With 68-Across, the shaded part of this crossword 8 With 67-Across, what the shaded part of this crossword resembles 14 Orange place 15 Seafaring 17 Eli and Aaron, in the Bible 18 Having a perfect record 19 A business might have one that’s fixed
20 ___ Enterprises (bygone TV production company) 21 Home of The Times-Picayune, familiarly 22 Reed section? 26 Where lakes are loughs 28 You might go for one at the beach 31 Do over and over 33 Core parts 36 “Well, isn’t that something!” 37 Mark below a line 38 Note just above C 40 Terminate 42 Hotel posting 44 “Right back ___!” 45 Manual opener 46 Like some allowances 48 Peeping, say 49 Certain bond, for short 50 “Hey, buddy!” 52 “Inner-city” for “black,” to some people 55 Hawaiian fish with a palindromic name 57 Scruffs 61 Tops off? 63 Gap in a tape, maybe 65 Cross words 66 Like a selfish attitude 67 See 8-Across 68 See 1-Across
DOWN 1 Legendary N.Y.C. club, with “the” 2 Drops the ball 3 Long-running TV drama started in 2003 4 Annual September TV event 5 Believer in an Ethiopian Zion 6 “The enemy of ___ is the absence of limitations”: Orson Welles 7 Church inits. 8 Turn in 9 Tribe after which the 45th state is named 10 Steak ___ 11 Numerical prefix 12 Longtime New Yorker writer Pauline 13 Part of the body whose name is both English and Latin 15 ___ Lock (neighbor of Page Up) 16 Animals whose tongues flick about 150 times a minute 23 Wrestler Flair 24 Look piercingly at 25 Afghanistan’s third-largest city 27 Cinnabar, e.g. 28 Punch 29 “So much fu-u-u-u-un!” 30 “Possibly” 32 Open again, as a keg 33 Quartet part 34 American Pharoah and others 35 Canine command 39 First commercial film with stereophonic sound, 1940 41 Lead-in to -tainment 43 OS part: Abbr. 47 Daniel ___, first Japanese-American to serve in Congress 49 “I Love Lucy” neighbor 51 Utter mess 52 Computer ___ 53 Home of Pearl City 54 Cameron of “Charlie’s Angels” 56 Big Ten inits. 58 Sound of contentment 59 Scots Gaelic 60 You might give them props 62 Picture frame? 63 CPR offerer 64 Necessary: Abbr.