The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 “All Things Considered” airer 4 Sloth, e.g.

7 Wasn’t a smooth talker?

13 Singer Grande, to fans

14 “___ soon?” 15 Vanquish

16 Price of a horror film?

18 Expand to 800% 19 Big online site for uploading photos and memes 20 Antique

22 Word accompanying a lightning bolt 23 Spanish direction 24 Spanish royal 25 Balance

28 King in the “Jungle Book” films 30 Be quietly angry 32 “The Good ___” 35 Soap opera, e.g. 37 Where It. is found 38 Leave on the cutting room floor 40 This puzzle’s theme

42 Word with science or chocolate

43 Like Antarctica among all the continents 45 Historic enemy of the Iroquois

46 Poorly made 48 YouTube statistics 50 Put an edge on 51 Had the reins

52 On

55 Rearward

57 “Take ___” 58 Separates into groups that don’t communicate 60 “Turandot” composer 63 Shakespeare character who says “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee” 65 They may come with bows and whistles

66 Handle

67 Indisposed

68 Like the word “truthiness,” by Stephen Colbert 69 Besmirch

70 Follower of red, pink or black DOWN

1 Blue-skinned race in “Avatar”

2 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer 3 Telephones 4 Binaural 5 Accelerator bit 6 Infamy

7 Bird of myth 8 DreamWorks’s first animated film 9 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer

10 Person pulling the strings?

11 Fish with tiny scales

12 “Dr.” who cofounded Death Row Records 15 Wyoming town named for a frontiersman 17 Tonkatsu, in Japanese cuisine 21 Bad look superhero

27 Cut short 29 Loan-sharking

30 Fry in a shallow pan

31 Common street name in the Northeast 32 Language in which “Thank you very much” is “Diolch yn fawr iawn” 33 Where I-15 meets I-86

34 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer

36 Inverted

39 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer

41 Closest pal

44 Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer

47 Military alert system

49 Tiny purchase for a plumber

51 ___ Lane 53 Skateboarding maneuver

54 Classic name for a parrot

56 Tucker out

59 Only

60 Chest muscle, for short

61 57-Across, en español

62 Homer’s neighbor 64 Big airport inits.