Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Meet portion, or portion of meat
4 Film franchise featuring Lightning McQueen
8 Regarding
13 Portfolio options, for short
15 Perched on
16 Deteriorating
17 “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of __”
18 NYC gallery with a Bell helicopter on display
19 Melted together
20 Dinner roll that provides an unexpected boost?
23 Pool necessity
24 Had as a regular customer
27 Outlandish stories about Vietnamese soup?
32 Bulky boats
34 Lithium-__ battery
35 Seized auto
36 Tease mercilessly
37 Valued at one fancy ballpoint?
42 Texter’s “But ... ”
43 “Monday Night Football” commentator Aikman
44 Young man
45 Anklebones
46 Golfers who just need to dance, dance, dance before every drive?
49 Stretching muscle
51 Common Market letters
52 Chophouse order, and an apt title for this puzzle?
58 Silky fabric
61 The “genu-” in “genuflect”
62 American tennis phenom Gauff
63 Begins
64 Low-pH stuff
65 Is shy
66 Play area
67 Egg layers
68 After taxes
DOWN
1 Command to a prompter
2 Actress Moriarty who plays Starlight on “The Boys”
3 PlayStation, for one
4 Strappy top, for short
5 Comprehensive
6 Trevi Fountain city
7 Like Greenland’s population
8 “Zero stars”
9 Edge
10 Sterile work environs
11 Employ
12 “Thank you for coming to my __ Talk”
14 Azalea, e.g.
21 Park and drive
22 “If I Were a __”: Beyoncé ballad
25 Horseracing achievement
26 “Will do, hon”
27 Crochet loop
28 Heckle
29 Seydoux of “No Time to Die”
30 On the facing pg.
31 Compass dirección
33 Mails
38 Watering down
39 Tarzan creator’s monogram
40 Also
41 Blood groups
46 AAA job
47 Neo-soul artist Badu
48 Boxer’s favorite store, maybe?
50 Feel
53 “... cut __”: end of a carpentry maxim
54 Bridle strap
55 Canvas shoe brand
56 Frozen treat brand
57 Station
58 Distress signal
59 Likely (to)
60 Leaves for dim sum