The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0209

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-toLondon 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