The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Up there

5 Legal org.

8 Tree pose discipline

12 Actress Watson

13 Like some stuffed toys

15 Two in a row?

16 Complain

17 Lofty features of many nice hotels

18 Bryce Canyon’s state

19 Innate response to a threatening situation

22 Chimney components

23 Entertain

24 Ante up for participation

28 The “P” of P.B.R.

31 Apple picker?

32 Channel for politics

36 Cause for much boasting

37 Some races

40 Cancel

41 “No ____, Bob!”

43 “Thus …”

44 Ship’s front

45 Potato-and-pea pastry

47 Deeps

49 AC/DC album after “Highway to Hell”

53 Bantu language with click consonants

55 Worst possible soccer score

56 They take advantage

59 Mardi Gras king

60 Accept defeat, informally … or what the last words of 19-, 24- and 49-Across do vis-àvis the first

63 Nosh on 64 Verb that sounds like its second letter

65 Soviet satellite launched in 1957

66 Adjudicate

67 “OK!”

68 Early Jurassic, e.g.

69 Word with safe or same

DOWN

1 Fashion line

2 Jaunty words upon departing

3 App with an envelope logo

4 Emotional inhibitions

5 A cappella part, say

6 Odom’s “Hamilton” role

7 “Like that’d ever happen”

8 “Oh, stop it, fellas”

9 Sworn statements

10 Whence subway air

11 Debris left by a phoenix

13 Sucker

14 Kosher : Judaism :: ___ : Islam

20 Some races

21 Apple desktops

25 Migratory seabird

26 “Metamorphosis” poet

27 Rollerballs, e.g. 28 Hypes (up)

29 City that’s home to the Taj Mahal

30 Big sound producers of the 1980s

33 Ones providing cheep trills?

34 Part of a neural connection

35 The “-spel” of “gospel,” etymologically

38 Musician Anderson .___

39 Wrench or gouge

42 Feathery accessories

44 Bench press muscles, informally

46 Improvises during a jazz performance

48 Waterproof sealant

50 Patronize a tattoo parlor

51 Abuela’s grandchild

52 Noir’s counterpart in a game of les échecs

53 Super-vision?

54 Roll call call

57 Like blue lobsters

58 River with a mythical ferryman

61 Copy

62 Disease research org.