NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Cable channel owned by Time Warner 4 Lead- in to toe or

top 7 Countdown

abbr. 10 “Un ___” ( answer to “Parlez- vous français?”) 13 Fashionable 15 Distinctive

filmmakers 17 One- horse

carriage 18 Alley seen on TV 19 One may be

deep 20 Passed 21 Again … and

again 23 ___ Ming, 2016 Hall of Fame inductee 24 Thereabouts 27 Unfeeling 29 Line at a

barbershop 32 Pickup line? 33 Broadway

opening 35 Perhaps not at

all 37 Keats ode

subject 38 2017 symbol in the Chinese zodiac 40 Accented

approval 41 Boots 43 Actress Skye 44 Can 45 Eye protector 46 Writing on many

a chalkboard 48 Tape recorder

button 50 Certain varietal,

for short 52 Provide with

oxygen 54 Game day

disappointment 57 Singer of the anthem “Hatikvah” (“The Hope”) 61 Carry out 62 Big to- do 63 Sticky stuff 64 Some

playfulness 65 German

direction 66 Short 67 Show filmed at Rockefeller Center, for short 68 Play ( with)

Down

1 “It is ___ that is golden, not silence”: Samuel Butler 2 When tripled,

et cetera 3 Article of apparel that often leaves one arm bare 4 Was encouraged 5 Layabout 6 Look at

searchingly 7 Olajuwon of the

N. B. A. 8 Wreckage 9 Good candidate

for adoption 10 Settle by calling

the question 11 Lake connected with lake- effect snow 12 Exhausted 14 Girl Scout

cookie offering 16 Barely successful avoidance of calamity 22 Brand for

weight- watchers 24 Barbarous 25 Caterpillar stage 26 Godlike, in a

way 28 French well 30 Museum piece 31 River through Nottingham, England 34 Ending with

micro36 Incentive for buying a new product, maybe 39 Buyers of

guidebooks 42 What a long

shot has 47 Lunch spot 49 Form- fitting

casual wear 51 Matches 53 Wan 54 Auctioned car,

perhaps 55 x or y 56 Pac- 12 team 58 Make some

changes to 59 Old typesetting machine, informally 60 Pop of rock