The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Did a bang-up job
10 Iota
15 Country without an official army, navy or air force
16 Counterpart of “blanche”
17 Revelation
18 G.I. pal of Forrest Gump
19 Plug, say
20 Big name in slip-on shoes
22 “Guarding ___” (1994 Shirley MacLaine movie)
23 “Sure, they can go right ahead”
25 Tank
26 Crystal gazer’s lead-in
27 Props to a proofreader
30 Scrip specs
34 1994 Olympics locale: Abbr.
35 Amusement park ride, perhaps
38 Company division
40 Like some parking and poetry
41 Tasmania’s capital
42 Free add-on?
43 TNT, in poker slang
44 Spot of coffee?
47 Lead-in to service or sacrifice
49 Diciembre : doce :: enero : ___
50 Shiny balloon material
54 Winter Olympics maneuver
55 Certain bank job
57 Relative of mauve
59 Queen’s “We Are the Champions” vis-à-vis “We Will Rock You”
61 Cut back
63 More calculating
64 Attraction at a water park
65 Broadway character who sings “The Rumor”
66 One way to gauge how well connected you are
Down
1 Looped in, in a way
2 Kind of treatment
3 Classic hit that begins “My friends feel it’s their appointed duty …”
4 Solid
5 Go down
6 “I shall see thee, ___ I die, look pale with love”: “Much Ado About Nothing”
7 Force
8 Become slick, in a way
9 Landing place
10 Letters that can fill in the blanks of “_A_D_ER” to make an appropriate surname
11 Elusive thing for a popular show
12 Pool service?
13 Rub out
14 Junglelike
21 One who knows the drama of raising children?
24 Maze runner
28 Swindle
29 Anklebiter 30 Dashboard abbr.
31 “Do Ya” band, informally
32 Experimented with
33 Enterprise group
36 Kylo of “Star Wars”
37 Sixers in pro sports, for short?
39 Elementium or obsidium, in World of Warcraft
40 Low sound
42 Oversize letter at the beginning of a chapter
45 Initiates a proposal, maybe
46 “Good heavens!”
47 Fresh
48 Once you’re forced into this, there’s no going back
51 Stopping point
52 Still in it
53 Tears down
56 Sluggish flow
58 Official document, informally
60 =
62 Time for a countdown: Abbr.