The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0101

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 Pulitzer-winning 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