NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: ___ classic ("The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Pulp Fiction," e.g.)

5 Across: Spongy wetlands

9 Across: Titleholder

14 Across: Engrave

15 Across: Dirt pie ingredient

16 Across: Greek goddesses of the seasons

17 Across: Optional mission in a video game

19 Across: Gradually eat away

20 Across: Selfless sort

21 Across: Shindig for someone to announce whether they're having a boy or a girl

22 Across: –

23 Across: Lie next to

25 Across: Show on which Tina Fey and Seth Meyers have worked as head writers, in brief

26 Across: Tropical cocktail with bananas, strawberries, rum and coconut cream

31 Across: Go downhill fast

34 Across: Feedbag contents

36 Across: Shindig for someone settling into a new home

37 Across: –

40 Across: Flips, say

42 Across: Skirt, as an issue

43 Across: Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad"

45 Across: Auction unit

46 Across: Cowboy's kerchief

48 Across: Show stoppers?

51 Across: Goes bad

52 Across: Shindig for someone who's about to tie the knot

56 Across: –

60 Across: Like a dish of veal or chicken dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried in butter

62 Across: Surfers ride them

63 Across: Lunchroom

64 Across: Wolf in "The Jungle Book"

65 Across: Initials on a map until 1991

66 Across: Shindig for the cast and crew after filming is done … with a hint to entering this answer and three others in the grid

67 Across: –

68 Across: Boxing stats

69 Across: Jazz singer Sylvia

1 Down: ___ Millan, celebrity dog trainer

2 Down: Handy

3 Down: High-def flat screen, for short

4 Down: "Ay, ___ the rub"

5 Down: Broth that might come from a dissolved cube

6 Down: Magnetite and bauxite

7 Down: Whole that's greater than the sum of its parts, from the German

8 Down: Barfly

9 Down: Spotted African sprinters

10 Down: Car's honker

11 Down: Longtime Yankee slugger, familiarly

12 Down: Earned

13 Down: Member of a jury

18 Down: Ke Huy ___, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" actor

21 Down: Boss, in Britain

24 Down: Major Iraqi port city

27 Down: Adversary

28 Down: Quiet period

29 Down: Scandinavian capital

30 Down: Toward sunset

31 Down: Mop, as the deck

32 Down: Polynesian brew

33 Down: Smooth out, as a wrinkled shirt

35 Down: Talent broker

38 Down: Mediocre, in modern slang

39 Down: "’Tis entirely likely"

41 Down: Those going along with others' unhealthy habits

44 Down: Item worn with a hazmat suit

47 Down: Negative connector

49 Down: "Curses!"

50 Down: Fibrous connecting tissues

53 Down: Second-largest city in Northern Ireland

54 Down: "Take me ___"

55 Down: Bounds

56 Down: Substitute

57 Down: Ceremonial Maori dance

58 Down: Done

59 Down: Mark left by a whip

61 Down: "Should that be true …"

63 Down: Word before "one's losses" or "both ways"