The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Viral internet joke, like

“Grumpy Cat”

5 Trap

10 Protected, as a horse’s hooves 14 Bar ___ (lawyer’s hurdle) 15 “Game of Thrones” servant 16 Cover in blacktop, say 17 Pixar’s “Finding ___”

18 Friend of Porthos and Aramis

in “The Three Musketeers” 19 Diva’s delivery

20 Punctuation marks indicating

irony

23 Common email attachment

type

24 Evaluate, as ore

25 Alternatives to Macs

26 Golf peg

28 Shampoo brand with a

“sassy” name

30 “Amen!”

33 “Moonlight” actor Mahershala 36 Binges on bad news, in

modern slang

39 Wine and ___

41 Michelangelo sculpture whose

name means “compassion” 42 Chair or bench

43 Mail that cannot be delivered

or returned

46 Come to a close

47 Helios, in Greek myth

48 Chest muscles, for short 50 Japanese money

51 One shells out for it at Shell 53 Peabody or Pulitzer 57 Instagram upload, informally 59 Hired pen … or, punnily, the author of 20-, 36- and 43Across?

62 Muslim prayer leader

64 Like a pirouetting ballet

dancer 65 Walk back and forth

66 Zap, as a cornea 67 Stuck-up sort

68 Cupid’s Greek counterpart 69 Former flames

70 Nobles outranking viscounts 71 Seven “deadly” things

DOWN

1 The brainy bunch?

2 V.I.P.s at the top of an org

chart

3 The ___ & the Papas

4 Hybrid hip-hop genre

5 N.B.A. great O’Neal, to fans 6 Unable to handle the task

7 For a specific purpose, as a

committee

8 Cheers (for)

9 Gaelic dialect

10 Place for a facial

11 “To Kill a Mockingbird” novelist 12 Roman poet who wrote “Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name”

13 Like most Gallaudet University

students

21 Sized up visually

22 Sight on the Hollywood Walk

of Fame

27 Bigheaded people have big

ones 29 Lassoed

30 Words of empathy

31 Pizazz

32 Founded: Abbr.

33 Sums

34 “In ___ of gifts …”

(line on an invitation)

35 “Be that as it may …” 37 Connected with

38 Small child’s convenience for reaching a sink

40 Slight advantage

44 Yearn (for)

45 Surgical souvenir

49 ___ right (shows interest on

Tinder)

51 “Never ___ Give You Up” (Rick

Astley tune)

52 Actress Mary of “The Maltese

Falcon”

54 Video game company behind

Centipede

55 Scout’s mission, in brief 56 Cover in bandages or

vinaigrette, say

57 Heap

58 Supersized movie format 60 Nylons

61 Moistens

63 Octubre o noviembre