The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Something a student may cut

6 Doesn't bother

12 Team V.I.P.s

15 Author of "The Eagle and the Fox" and "The Fox and the Lion"

16 Where to watch the Lightning and Hurricanes

17 Porridge grain

18 Region that spans about 8% of the earth's land area [Arabic]

20 Attempt

21 Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don't quite touch

22 "My Gal ___"

23 Fencing option

24 Addams family cousin

25 Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe]

27 Actor McGregor 30 Biological molecule

32 Days past

33 Shakespearean fairy queen

34 Playground retort

37 Electricity bill datum

40 Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with "W" on the east and "K" on the west [Algonquin]

43 Together (with)

44 Clay targets,

informally 45 Official language of Ghana: Abbr.

46 Certain mattress material

48 Commonly torn band, for short

49 Excited about

50 Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian]

54 Fall behind

56 Takes home

57 Governor

DeSantis

58 Commercial spaces in an app

62 "Mud"

63 Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50Across vis-à-vis the bracketed languages

65 Undivided 66 Look away from

67 Wombs

68 Big fashion inits.

69 Some downtown street liners

70 Start over

Down

1 Dramatis personae portrayers

2 Actress and documentarian Remini

3 Arthur of the court

4 Be absorbed, as a marinade

5 Pole that extends a sail

6 Fellows

7 Prior to, in poetry

8 ___ Virtue, three-time world ice dancing champion

9 Sly sort

10 Grain in some hearty soup

11 Is French?

12 What all good children do, in a nursery rhyme

13 Penguins great Lemieux

14 Do, as hair

19 First M.L.B. team to use artificial turf in its stadium

23 Persian language

25 Eye-opening experience?

26 They might be guided

27 ___ Raducanu, 2021 U.S. Open women's tennis champion

28 Cry out

29 What some workout videos promise

31 Loch ___

34 Investigate

persistently

35 Ape's weapon in "Planet of the Apes"

36 International oil grp.

38 Fellow

39 Therefore

41 Little brats

42 "That's sufficient, I guess"

47 It's just an

illusion

49 Take a lighter

to

50 "Have fun!" 51 Long, long

times

52 Get on

53 How ballerinas

often perform 55 Fortune tell 58 Some pub

brews 59 Freezes

(over)

60 Scale button 61 Thin cut

63 Cook with a long history at Apple

64 Bobby of Bruins

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