The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Musical measures 5 Stats for H.S. students

9 Positive quality 14 Corporate bigwig 15 Figure on a Monopoly card

16 Guy of Food Network fame 17 Additionally

18 Ye ___ Shoppe 19 Pup’s peeves

20 Topic of debate regarding online service providers 23 And so forth: Abbr. 24 Arab dignitary 25 Much of a Facebook feed 28 “Ready, ___, go!” 31 “Now I get it!” 33 Evil-repelling trinket

35 Feign sleep 39 Jacques ___,

“Mon Oncle” filmmaker

40 Basic trick at a skatepark

41 Eighth mo. 42 Personification of evil

43 Not spoil

44 Helpful feature for tyops ... um, typos 46 Novelist Hemingway

48 “___ out!” (ump’s shout)

49 P, to Plato

50 Its motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” in brief

51 Stroke on a golf green

54 Product that’s often mintflavored 56 Opposition party group in British politics

62 Created for a certain purpose, as a committee 64 Fish’s breathing organ

65 Nativity gift givers 66 Go “Zzzz”

67 Fruit with a cedilla in its name 68 Worshiped figure 69 Pieces that are typically sacrificed in gambits

70 “This email is finished” button 71 Action that can be done to the starts of 20-, 35-, 44- and 56-Across

DOWN

1 Noggin

2 Rod through two wheels

3 Pause, on sheet music

4 British biscuit 5 Mustachioed Marx brother

6 Bombard, as with snowballs 7 Comedian Eric

8 Hot shower emanation

9 Declare confidently

10 Riverbank deposit 11 “Hasta la vista!” 12 Distinctive period

13 “___ the season ...”

21 French word for a leg of the Tour de France

22 Actor Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”

26 Unfasten

27 Drunk, in dated slang

28 Like commands given to Siri and Alexa

29 ___ Queen, crime novel pseudonym 30 “The X Factor” or “The Voice”

32 Right away 34 Destination of the Mormon migration 36 Cry of pain

37 Take to court

38 Unattractive

42 Wash with elbow grease

44 Mate for a mare 45 Passport or driver’s license 47 What_the_ underlines_in_ this_clue_show 52 Attire on many Roman statues 53 How many times Bette Davis won Best Actress 55 Imitate

57 Common center of a steering wheel 58 Tight-knit tribe 59 Zilch, zip, zero 60 Senses of selfworth

61 Be at an angle

62 Nile serpent 63 23andMe sample