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1A
It flows under the Ponte Vecchio
5A
Brute completes this famous Shakespeare line
9A
Mercedes for ladies, perhaps
14A
Evan or Birch in Indiana politics
15A
Othello, for one
16A
Double reeds
17A
Driver in the movies
18A
Humorist Bombeck
19A
Scheduling blocks, often
20A
Physical, as opposed to psychological, ailment
23A
Nat ___, channel for "Dog Town" and "Wicked Tuna"
24A
Cubist Juan
25A
Dry
27A
What to do when the vinaigrette is too tart
30A
Get engaged, old style
33A
Gangbangers and where they hang
34A
Splatter films' stock in trade
35A
New Mexico artist colony
37A
Producer for Coldplay, U2, Peter Gabriel, et al.
38A
Recap of a previous meeting
41A
Slasher film director's shout
42A
"___ Lisa," song by Jay Livingston
44A
Statistic with "per" in the middle
45A
Put a red herring in a puzzle perhaps
47A
Placates a fussy restaurant customer
49A
Setting for "Si, mi chiamano Mimi"
50A
Kobe's 325-lb. teammate
51A
Title word before "This Way," "Free," "to Be Wild," etc.
52A
Keri Russell in Netflix's "The Diplomat," e.g.
54A
"I before E," "Hit with 16, stand with 17," etc.
60A
Waze suggestion
62A
Landed
63A
Hard, punk, or acid, among others
64A
Garner or Flynn
65A
Meyers of late night TV
66A
What TV's "Indian Matchmaker" wears
67A
Eye ailments
68A
Lolita's surname
69A
Big birds

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1D
"Pease porridge hot" rhyme scheme
2D
He wrote the lyrics for "Hair"
3D
Role for Bening in a recent biopic
4D
"I don't believe it!"
5D
TV chef
6D
Matadors' foes
7D
Target of a Lara Croft raid, perhaps
8D
Ukraine neighbor in Risk
9D
French director Eric ("Pauline at the Beach")
10D
Pioneer in subscription TV
11D
Cry heard on Oprah's TV show
12D
Montmartre mom
13D
It promised to "put a tiger in your tank"
21D
It separates whites and colors
22D
First name in cosmetics
26D
Go bad
27D
"Um, excuse me?"
28D
Alumni fund friend
29D
Strip with Zonker and Uncle Duke
30D
Matches : wrestling : : ___ : boxing
31D
Art deco mononym
32D
TV doctor role for Hugh Laurie
34D
Tiny flying insect
36D
Editorial override
39D
One from Basra or Baghdad
40D
Reporter Brenda or Packer Bart
43D
Hibachi residue
46D
One who takes over from EMTs
48D
Supports for artists
49D
In whose dramas the last shall be "Faust"
51D
Type of chess for those in a hurry
52D
Son of Zeus, brother of Athena
53D
Comedian Sahl
55D
TV comedy set in Korea
56D
It's entered in court
57D
The good earth
58D
Raw silk color
59D
Goes downhill fast
61D
Low digit

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Gutman 2s · 2025-02-03T11:14:32.376Z

Great show

Lance 2s · 2025-02-03T13:33:46.522Z

Very fun solve, thanks Bird Lives!

Pair O Ducks 🤓6:30 · 2025-02-03T13:55:19.134Z

Clever! Haven't quite managed to find the M or the S, but the answer was too clear to be wrong so I tried it. Thanks for the puzzle!

DavyGravy 🤓11:56 · 2025-02-03T14:03:09.397Z

Clever idea! Never heard of the 3 show. Needed IMDB for that one. I knew the rest. Some oldies in there took me down memory lane a bit. Thanks for the Monday fun.

Darth 🤓14:12 · 2025-02-03T14:19:34.762Z

I'm not a big TV watcher, but "Body Problem" and "Simple Rules" seemed familiar somehow. I've not watched any of these, so I used Google to confirm what I suspected. ;) Thanks, Jay!

Bird Lives constructor · 2025-02-03T15:22:33.695Z
I've never watched those two or Adam 12 or the answer. But I guess that having heard of them is sufficient for solving or constructing.

boharr 2s · 2025-02-03T14:29:42.386Z

I guess I don't watch enough TV. Needed a nudge and Google. But got there. Thanks, Jay

imontoo 2s · 2025-02-03T15:36:55.144Z

Fun! “Simple Rules” was my click moment.

Dave C 3s · 2025-02-03T15:17:30.810Z

I needed Google for some but 48 Hours, 60 Minutes and Route 66 got me started.

KayW 🤓3:25 · 2025-02-03T15:49:02.611Z

Loved that show - Very clever. Thanks Jay! hmmm in hindsight I should have entered NUMB3RS but crosshare accepted NUMBERS :D

Also loved that you gave "yourself" a shout-out at 42-across ;)

Carolyn 🤓18:16 · 2025-02-03T16:40:12.651Z

Didn't know them all, but knew enough! Thanks

kurtalert 🤓6:01 · 2025-02-03T16:23:36.270Z

Very fun :-)

Alex Sisti 3s · 2025-02-03T16:20:32.875Z

Really well done!

MatthewL 🤓6:49 · 2025-02-03T17:36:34.424Z

Go 3, 8 and 60, which led to NUR which is, apparently a TV show. But, not the right entry. So kept looking and finally saw ADAM 12 (which I used to watch as a kid), and that led me to find the rest. Fun one. Thanks for the puzzle, Jay!

ajk 🤓11:35 · 2025-02-03T17:41:45.606Z

Very nice, as always. Got the mechanism before finishing the grid, as I had some trouble with the NW corner (not least because I couldn't remember how to spell BAYH

). Did have to backsolve 3 BODY PROBLEM b/c I've never heard of that one, but knew the rest (including the answer). I think 8 SIMPLE RULES was the first one I saw, but they all came to mind quickly except for 3-BODY. Especially like the 21D clue.

And the 52A clue reminds me that I need to watch season 2 of that show. Fun one, thanks. :)

woozy 13:24 · 2025-02-03T18:48:00.052Z
Funny. 8 simple rules was the one I had never heard of. 60 minutes and (incorrect) 24 hours jumped at me so I knew the mechanism there and then. In going through the list it was easy to miss ADAM and ROUTE but the assymetry of ROCK and HOURS made them easy to find. (Never heard of the show Route 66). Got NumbGrs and wondered for a while if it was a play on the shows logo NUMB3RS (I always synthesially associated the letter G with the number 5 rather than 3 but maybe Jay has a different synthesia association) but then I realized to show was 48 hours.

Three Body Problem is.... oh, Netflix algorithm edgier originality on demand like every-where else. One of these days I'm going to write a treatise about why I don't like streaming shows marketed to those who view themselves as intelligentsia but... Meh. Which is not to say it didn't have its moments.

whimsy 🤓12:00 · 2025-02-03T20:11:20.769Z

Knew 3, 12, 30, 60 and 66. Resulting in NMBRS. Backsolved and googled the remainder, including the answer so that I knew enough to use the 3 in it.

Thanks, Jay!

DrTom 2s · 2025-02-03T17:18:06.257Z

The fill was more of a challenge than the meta. I did have a leg up because there were a lot of "Boomer Lore" clues (Mort Sahl, Brenda or Bart Starr, Erroll Garner or FLynn, Lolita Haze, etc.) There was also a lot of very clever fill (it was not until the end that I got the Mercedes for ladies, and GOETHE - VERY nice)!

Thanks for the puzzle Jay...Oh, is the Mona Lisa person a relative or just was luckily born with that name? Since the fill I have of course heard Nat King Cole in my ear.

Wendy Walker 3s · 2025-02-03T21:49:12.337Z

Of course I recognized only the oldest shows and was stuck with MBERS for the longest time! Lots of fun, Jay; thanks!

michaelm 🤓7:09 · 2025-02-04T00:41:56.744Z

and... YOU GET A CAR for this! MMM had me chuckling from beginning to end, thanks Jay!

ELSavage 🤓7:27 · 2025-02-04T02:02:19.379Z

Another puzzle that this mathematician could not resist. I was tempted to put the '3' in the answer, but wasn't sure if that would have worked. The only show I hadn't heard of was 3-Body Problem, but knew it as a well-known physics problem, and symmetry required it.

Bird Lives constructor · 2025-02-04T03:21:33.071Z
The 3-spelling would have been accepted also.

Qmark 3s · 2025-02-04T11:39:01.639Z

Loved it...thanks!

HeadinHome 🤓1:24 · 2025-02-03T21:09:47.921Z

Rules and Rock, plus Minutes in the center — did it for me. Then found others because of symmetry (thanks). I entered Numb3rs. I assume Numbers was acceptable too?

oldjudge 3s · 2025-02-04T21:29:30.430Z

Nice job Jay!

omnilynx 🤓14:44 · 2025-02-05T04:43:59.877Z

Because of 69A, I was sure it would be Sesame Street. What a 45A!

HeyMikey 6s · 2025-02-05T17:31:20.202Z

Interesting puzzle - thanks, Jay. Needed the nudges because I read the novel, "3 Body Problem" before the show came out so I discarded it along with 127 Hours cuz it's a movie, not a TV show. And I didn't know about 8 Simple Rules. I watched a lot of Numb3rs as a math nerd and I'm embarrassed not to have seen it earlier.

Love that the significant entries have symmetric locations!

Bird Lives constructor · 2025-02-06T03:16:56.112Z
I never read the book and have never watched the show. I just liked the title.

Sharkicicles 2s · 2025-02-06T18:04:33.159Z

I am tv dumb so had to use Wikipedia (there’s a list of tv shows with a number in the title!) but this was a really impressive construction… themers were hidden in plain sight!

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