N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Pirates 8 Part of N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr. 12 “___ rico!” (“Delicious!”: Sp.) 15 Start of a haughty declaration 16 Do a vet’s job on 17 German conjunction 18 Like some mushrooms 20 Prefix with -graph 21 You might get a kick out of this at a restaurant 22 Parts of the body that are slightly larger in the evening than morning 23 Résumé asset, in brief 26 Animal known to “juggle” rocks 27 Chokes, say 28 Did a hook spin or knee swing 32 “It’s true!” 33 Backdrop for the Compromise of 1850 34 “I don’t care either way” 36 Test with a Social Studies sect. 37 A fifth 39 Fast-fashion retailer 43 Outdoor apparel chain 44 Title heroine of a James Joyce story 45 Modern marketplace 50 Party hearty 51 Passé 53 Opposite of petit 54 Work on software 55 Need for protein synthesis 56 Things shortened at bitly.com 57 Some instant breakfast packets 61 Complete a lap? 62 Star student’s goal 66 Emotive verse 67 Isn’t oblivious 68 Isn’t oblivious 69 Patriarch Stark of “Game of Thrones” 70 ___ Park Corner (London tube station) 71 Basic dance move

DOWN 1 In 2 Cases to consider 3 Delight 4 Principal 5 Small Pacific salmon 6 Metaphor for a tricky problem 7 TV sets? 8 Hard to fool 9 Enlivened 10 Screen ___ 11 12/31 12 Onetime Bravo series or its Netflix reboot 13 Term for a censored dissident in “1984” 14 Censors, say 19 Inescapable bind 22 Unrestrained violence 23 Dashboard abbr. 24 Appropriately named ghost in Nintendo games 25 More than most 29 Without borders 30 Movie villain with a signature pinky gesture 31 Pulitzerwinning poet W. H. ___ 32 Still 35 Cops’ targets 38 First graduates of the new millennium, informally 39 Missouri setting of 2014 civil rights protests 40 Countermand 41 Refused to accept the status quo, say 42 Made more waterproof, maybe 46 Crowning event? 47 Poetic contraction 48 Took off 49 Timeline division 52 Thickheaded 54 Only one of the Seven Dwarfs without a beard 58 Say frankly 59 Best Supporting Actor winner for “Dallas Buyers Club” 60 Honorifics that can be repeated to indicate higher status 62 Traditional source of fertilizer 63 Do one’s part? 64 “Hadn’t thought of it like that” 65 Special gift, for short