The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Put to shame 6 Muppet with a unibrow

10 Sci-fi sidekick … or a hint to 20- and 34-Across 14 Sacrifices at the plate

15 Iris holder 16 Setting for a hootenanny 17 Lisa of “High Fidelity”

18 Like old wood in new furniture, maybe

20 Star of the “Deadpool” films 22 “Yippee!”

23 Sch. in Greenwich Village

24 Web portal with the Bing search engine 27 Singer/songwriter DiFranco 29 Some do-si-do partners 32 Goddess and ruler of the witches in “Macbeth” 34 Postmodern novelist who wrote “White Noise” 37 Plains tribe members

38 Trig ratio 39 Little Jack Horner’s Christmas treat 40 Director Eastwood 41 Stink

42 Fashion icon with a numbered fragrance

44 Dive deep

46 K, in the NATO alphabet

47 Test for a future Ph.D.

48 “___ out!” 49 Switch positions 51 Popular holiday gift of 2001 53 Stand-up comedian who voiced Remy in “Ratatouille” 58 “Nice wheels!” 61 Winner of seven Tonys in 1977 62 Hole punchers 63 Zenith 64 Neopagan religion 65 Sci-fi sidekick … or a hint to 42- and 53-Across

66 In case

67 Word with guitar or wool

DOWN

1 E.g., e.g. 2 Hearten 3 Likely inspiration for Meryl Streep’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada” 4 Shorthand writer, for short 5 Hormone administered in some transgender therapies 6 Suppress, as a negative story 7 Deadlocked

8 Fact-finding mission, informally

9 Fox hunter’s cry 10 Stat for a D.H. 11 When clocks “spring forward” for daylight saving time

12 Beats by ___ 13 Silver medalist’s place 19 Together, in music 21 And others, in a list

24 Birds of paradise do a spectacular one

25 Type who’s prone to “the munchies” 26 Spoon, say 27 Promotional text 28 Noggin

30 T’ang dynasty poet

31 Nifty

33 Pop variety

35 “Rats!”

36 First of 13 popes 40 Heavy-duty cutters 42 Innermost 43 Muse of history 45 Best ever, acronymically 50 Michael of R.E.M. 52 Embrace something embarrassing 53 100 centavos 54 Some are Sapphic 55 Coming right up 56 Problems that come to a head? 57 Color on Jacksonville Jaguar uniforms 58 Anatomical pouch 59 Conflict in many postapocalyptic narratives, for short 60 Rapper who’s half of Run the Jewels