NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Gender-neutral pronoun (4 letters)

5 Across: Slips a card up one's sleeve, say (6 letters)

11 Across: Org. that now offers merit badges in Kayaking and Nuclear Science (3 letters)

14 Across: Mammoth (4 letters)

15 Across: Portable computer (6 letters)

16 Across: And so on and so on: Abbr. (3 letters)

17 Across: Activity that helps one release pent-up feelings (15 letters)

20 Across: Started, as a new field of interest (7 letters)

21 Across: "Received and understood," in radio lingo (5 letters)

22 Across: Hockey legend Bobby of the Boston Bruins (3 letters)

23 Across: Hexagonal mesh used to fence in poultry (11 letters)

27 Across: Pals in Paris (4 letters)

29 Across: Blackjack play (3 letters)

30 Across: Takes to court (4 letters)

31 Across: Lukewarm, as support (5 letters)

33 Across: You cannot get them from frogs, contrary to popular myth (5 letters)

35 Across: Workers in E.R.s and I.C.U.s (3 letters)

36 Across: Early bloomer? (9 letters)

39 Across: "In ___ We Trust" (3 letters)

42 Across: Like an untouched attic (5 letters)

43 Across: Starches and sugars as sources of energy, informally (5 letters)

47 Across: Drug you can trip on (4 letters)

49 Across: Spike who directed "Do the Right Thing" (3 letters)

50 Across: Where heroes are made? (4 letters)

51 Across: Be up-to-date with the news (11 letters)

56 Across: What a successful party is (3 letters)

57 Across: More ashen (5 letters)

58 Across: Olympians wearing red, white and blue (7 letters)

60 Across: "It all makes sense now!" … or what you may exclaim after combining the ends of 17-, 23-, 36- and 51-Across? (15 letters)

64 Across: Muscle used in a dumbbell bench press, informally (3 letters)

65 Across: Self-proclaimed (6 letters)

66 Across: Stags, does and fawns (4 letters)

67 Across: D.C. winter hours (3 letters)

68 Across: The "M" in RAM (6 letters)

69 Across: "Insecure" co-creator and star ___ Rae (4 letters)

1 Down: Highest-caliber athlete, to fans (7 letters)

2 Down: "Follow my train of thinking, OK?!" (7 letters)

3 Down: Self-aggrandizing endeavor (7 letters)

4 Down: Mountain cryptid whose name inspired a water-bottle brand (4 letters)

5 Down: Cotton or silk (5 letters)

6 Down: Capital of Vietnam (5 letters)

7 Down: Clean energy org. established by President Nixon (3 letters)

8 Down: Code of the world's busiest airport (3 letters)

9 Down: "___ soon?" (3 letters)

10 Down: Jilt (5 letters)

11 Down: Brussels is its capital (7 letters)

12 Down: Had the wheel (7 letters)

13 Down: Sigourney Weaver, but not Dennis Weaver (7 letters)

18 Down: "Monsters, ___" (3 letters)

19 Down: Tugboat tasks (4 letters)

24 Down: Unit of a national sorority or fraternity (7 letters)

25 Down: Puffy, pink protagonist of Nintendo fame (5 letters)

26 Down: "___ Brute?" (Caesar's query) (4 letters)

28 Down: Take a chair (3 letters)

32 Down: Clunker (3 letters)

33 Down: More sagacious (5 letters)

34 Down: Capital of Utah, in brief (3 letters)

37 Down: Lead-in to "lemon," in a high-end athleisure brand (4 letters)

38 Down: Word before dog or Bunny (3 letters)

39 Down: Home installation providing propane to a grill or fireplace (7 letters)

40 Down: A professional singer can usually cover more than one of these (7 letters)

41 Down: Patois or Cajun (7 letters)

44 Down: Sanctuaries (7 letters)

45 Down: Gets pink in the face, say (7 letters)

46 Down: Nine-time Grammy winner Frank (7 letters)

48 Down: These can be made with turmeric or saffron (4 letters)

52 Down: It may be added to coffee or corn (5 letters)

53 Down: Upper regions of the sky, poetically (5 letters)

54 Down: Impoverished (5 letters)

55 Down: "Qué ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish) (3 letters)

59 Down: Dress length that reaches the calf (4 letters)

61 Down: Adam's madam (3 letters)

62 Down: Consideration for an Oscar, informally (3 letters)

63 Down: Number of points for a basket (3 letters)