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