The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Deciding
contest 7 Musical whose preshow warning about cellphone use says that knights "may drag you onstage and impale you"
15 God on a mission?
16 Cry after a windfall
17 What might keep you on pins and needles?
18 Bit of gear for gliding
19 Personal struggles personified
21 ___ Carter, most-recorded jazz bassist in history
22 Critics' picks, informally
23 Eldest daughter of Oceanus and mother of Nike
25 Source of milk for Manchego cheese
28 Comme ci, comme ça
30 European airline that was nationalized from 1944 to 2001
34 Boston Harbor detritus, once
36 Cartoonist Groening
38 Hands and feet
39 Trancelike state during a monotonous drive
42 Northern hemisphere?
43 Antivenoms, e.g.
44 World's rarest goose
45 Symbol found in Pac-Man and on slot machines 47 Going ___
49 Rode the
bench
50 First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth
52 Its tributaries have colorful names
54 Cry from
Homer
57 "I want to, but really I shouldn't ..." 62 [Violin emoji] 64 Stand-up
person?
65 "You did great!" 66 Moving
company? 67 Suboptimal
ending
68 Name on an
envelope
Down
1 Sitarist Shankar
2 Informed of
3 Time to draw?
4 "Getting ___ is no problem. You just have to live long enough": Groucho Marx
5 Jardín contents
6 PostThanksgiving meal drowsiness, familiarly
7 Compete in a freestyle, e.g.
8 Cowboy Bill
9 Coy response to a compliment
10 Casually chic updo
11 Original tablet holder
12 Makeup artist?
13 Prefix with -genarian
14 Storyteller's transition 20 Bacon bits
24 Noble gas used in propelling ion thrusters
25 Code of conduct
26 Carefully consider
27 Boston College athlete
29 Check box in a survey
31 Stands
32 1986 rock autobiography
33 Selling point
35 Prop (up) 37 Cruel ruler
40 Spent
41 Ones in a waiting room 46 Drink brand that sounds like a shout
48 Novelist Leonard
51 Act bullish?
53 Printer brand
54 Slips into 55 Where Life Savers and poptop cans were both invented
56 Howard or Spelman: Abbr.
58 Hit, in a way
59 Fall sound 60 Brood
61 It's got a big mouth
63 "Jingle Bells" contraction