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