Crossword No. 667: Best in Show

ACROSS

1 No. 13 on Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time: a comedy in which the star “somehow topped her Seinfeld work” 5 No. 25: Its 1983 finale was “the mostwatched single episode of television ever” 9 No. 29: This event “unfurled over eight consecutive nights” 14 Skilled 15 Part of town 16 Tail-___ (one in last place) 17 No. 72: It features a 1970s couple “trying their best to raise their kids right... in a Chicago housing project” 19 Adolescents 20 Loosen, as a shoelace 21 Flies high 23 Watch closely 24 Dude 27 No. 49: Sitcom whose key was “the chemistry among the six pals” 31 Not lower 33 Release 34 No. 1: We are “still living in the new world of television ushered in” by this show 38 Traffic org. 39 Get under the bed, say 40 By way of 41 Agitate 42 Spielbergian creatures 43 No. 2: The “best, longest-running, most influential TV comedy of them all” 47 Like wedding cakes 49 Bottled water brand 50 No. 9: Its characters “have surreal adventures in the titular city” 52 Musical taste 53 Types to, one way 56 Packers icon Brett 58 Divine retribution 60 Allen or Hawke 63 No. 36: Arguably “the most important series in television history” 66 Meet and ___ 67 Watson or Stone 68 Part of a foot 69 No. 65: HBO series that’s a “poignant look at a group of young women at a precarious moment in their lives” 70 No. 35: “As one of the castaways asks early on, ’Guys, where are we?’” 71 No. 60: A sitcom rooted in the “seemingly limited setting of a cab company garage”

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1 Far from specific 2 “___ and Ivory” 3 Ear of corn, in Spanish 4 Mani-___ 5 ___ tai (cocktail) 6 Sleeve insertion 7 Gets a look at 8 Eats, in the Bible 9 Gives another shot 10 Ten reps at a gym, say 11 Praising poem 12 Perfect score, often 13 Soon-to-be grads 18 Pace 22 Folkie Guthrie 25 Phone download 26 Gumption 28 Greet wordlessly 29 Set to arrive (at) 30 Celebs 31 Find a job for 32 Poker table tactic 34 Sorority letter 35 Command to the band 36 Ford flop 37 Gullible 41 Nine-digit ID 43 Rent payers 44 Clear-picture provider 45 Actress Farrow 46 Indiana county 48 Netman Nadal 51 Little Mermaid of film 53 “___ tight ship” (“Don’t mess around”) 54 188 years from now 55 Greet someone casually 57 Muppet often tickled 59 Dismounted 60 One of a dozen 61 Prefix with cycle 62 She/___ 64 New age-y chants 65 Winery vessel