The New York Times crossword puzzle

Note: The five rows of shaded squares reveal anunusual feature of this puzzle.

Across

1 Seeblurb

6 Batteries

in mice 9 *Bonzo

and others 15 She went to Haiti in a Cole Porter song 16 Ballpark fig. 17 Et ___

18 “The Lion King” soundtrack composer 20 Hang on to 21 Boarding

pass info 22 Angsty

music genre 23 Divest (of) 24 Gesture that might be made with a wink 25 Seeblurb

28 Opposed 32 “And how!” 33 *“And so

it ___” 34 Patriotic

women’s org. 35 Jack who played Sgt. Friday 39 Sound like a jackass 40 Seeblurb

42 PHX airport

locale: Abbr. 43 Actress Kendrick of “Pitch Perfect” 44 Summer hrs.

in Chicago 45 *Fabric with a cheapsounding name 47 “CSI”

workplace 50 Fresh gossip,

with “the” 51 Seeblurb 55 Long-snouted

fish

56 Title for

18-Across 57 Au ___

(menu phrase) 58 Novelist

Waugh 62 “Star Wars” knight, informally 64 Only a little 66 Fix, as a pump 67 ___ generis

(unique) 68 Therefore 69 *“You just

missed!” 70 Item held by the king of diamonds 71 Seeblurb

Down

1 Barely manages, with “out” 2 Lowland,

poetically 3 Singer James

or Jones 4 Thigh-slapper 5 Nikkei index

currency 6 Chocolatier’s

lure

7 *Can’t stomach 8 Go astray 9 1950s-’60s hit with the lyric “Ah, you made me love you / Now, now, now, now your man is come” 10 Paid

attention to 11 “The Addams

Family” cousin 12 Had in mind 13 Previous arrest,

on a rap sheet 14 Like some

light hair 19 Ballet leaps 23 Showed again 25 Form 1040 ID 26 Newswoman

Bakhtiar 27 “Hold it —

hang on!” 28 “Fernando”

group

29 HGTV personality ___ Yip 30 Eddie ___, subject of “The French Connection” 31 World capital whose name means “gardens” 36 Fish-eating

raptor 37 Stand-up’s

routines 38 [Wrong

answer!] 40 Couch potato 41 “Right away!,”

in the O.R. 44 China holder 45 Reunion group 46 Rogue computer in “2001” 48 M and N, in

pronunciation 49 *Elegantly designed trinkets 51 Greek marketplace of old 52 Motown

or Decca 53 Light beam

splitter 54 Adorable one 58 AAA part:

Abbr.

59 Ilsa ___, “Casablanca” character 60 “Behold!,”

to Caesar 61 “Believe” Grammy winner, 1999 63 Try to win

over

64 Intel org. 65 Cry of

discovery

No. 0315