With Friends Like These

By Lucia Dec-Prat and Elika Khosravani

Across

1. Counter to decr.

5. Steps up?

11. ___ House, dining hall with a new “World Tour” dinner menu

14. Not false

15. Latin “of the earth”

16. UN agency focused on working conditions

17. German Chancellor Friedrich

18. Birthplace of nickels and dimes

19. Jerome Powell’s ex-employer, for short

20 Not pregnant, just mortified – a feeling this puzzle's spellchecker knows well

22. NY private university, along with Columbia, the New School, NYU, and Parsons

23. Historical period shorter than 59-across

24 Expensive woody perfume note

26. Floor feature that moonlights as stationary in Madrid

30. Scout troop’s evening centerpiece

35. Tom behind the song “Another Love”

36. Baby Grand or Casablanca

37. Action to take in 40-across 

38. Hello and goodbye from the Boot

39. With ascending Roman numerals, name of three Shakespeare characters

40. British toilet

41. Org. headed by Thomas DiNapoli

42. “I ______  hero, I’m holding out for a hero till the end of the night”

43. Christ’s falsest friend (not unlike 20-across, 44-across, 52-across, or 67-across) 

44. Really, just not at this moment (🤓☝️)

46. Makes do

47. Central org. in Heated Rivalry

48. Listening organ

49. HAGS precursor

52. Cause a blockage, though in Spanish you’d just need a tissue

59. Ages and ages (a thousand million years)

60. Rain boot

61. “____ man, or ____ muppet”

62. Chicago’s spring time zone

63. “Carry on, soldier”

64. Obtains

65. Spanish 45-down 

66. (R)-glyceraldehyde vis-a-vis (S)-glyceraldehyde, for example

67. Red sign above the door that spells triumph abroad

Down

1. Self-identifying meme response

2. Deep sleep phase, abbr.

3. NYC yellow taxi app

4. Pahlavi attempting a return to power

5. "Little" mouse

6. "Yeah it’s _____ Brooks, the competition shook"

7. Upper limbs

8. Patois for "everything's good"

9. By chance

10. Alternative to bump and spike

11. Trump’s favorite Peace Prize org.

12. Baldwin of 30 Rock

13. Write in Python

21. Short Instagram video

22. File format for many Canvas readings

25. Shipping store across from the original Hooda Halal

26. Warm drink served with marshmallows

27. “Throw ____” (play frisbee)

28. Respond

29. Oslo Accords signatory, abbr.

30. Dylan’s ____ Bar

31. Quality that can be “farmed”

32. Early Apple mp3 players

33. “They tried to make me go to ____ but I said no, no, no” 

34. “Weensy” counterpart

36. Desquamate?

39. CW cheerleading show

40. Extend out from

42. Opposite of “yeah”

43. Ryan of Star Trek and Dracula

45. "Just found I'm chopped... and, also ____"

46. Collect

48. Lavazza rival

49. Course format, not a sem.

50. Fayed killed in crash with Princess Diana

51. “I’m ___ you” (suspicious)

53. Margarine

54. Chomsky featured in the Epstein files

55. Sheet or leaf

56. Centurion credit card

57. “___ Me Preguntó”

58. Opposite of west

60. Creative LLM category