Crossword No. 738: Role-Playing Games

ACROSS

1 Beer barrel

4 Stadium crowd noise

9 “Exactly right!”

14 Eggs, to a doctor

15 Part of A/V

16 From the top

17 English actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson recently has been rumored to become the eighth man to play this iconic film role, starting next year

19 Welsh ___ (small dog)

20 Does what has to be done

21 This former U.S. Marine and history professor has been played by five actors, including Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck

23 ___ One (vodka brand)

24 Doctor’s request

25 Aficionado, casually

27 Gateway

32 Mustachioed Salvador

35 Withstand

38 Closest U.S. state to Africa

39 Keira Knightley, Aishwarya Rai, and Renee Zellweger have all played versions of this 1813 literary character

42 One aiming for a subfour-minute time, maybe

43 Abound (with)

44 Field-covering precipitation

45 Victorious cry

47 Record for the future

49 “Silence!”

52 Glazer of The Afterparty

56 Julie Newmar originated this TV role in 1966; it’s since been played in films by Halle Berry and Anne Hathaway

60 Didn’t stop

61 ___ Drive (Miami Beach’s main drag)

62 Cary Elwes, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Costner have played him in recent decades; Douglas Fairbanks was the first big studio star to do so, in a 1922 silent film

64 Kyoto cartoons

65 “Had I but ___...”

66 180 degrees from SSW

67 Harris’ boss

68 Reddish-brown shade

69 Plural suffix with employ

DOWN

1 TV cop in a fedora

2 Stay away from

3 Entire range

4 Royal shelter

5 Busy airports

6 Fuss

7 Nimble assassin

8 Show with a sunrise logo

9 No longer on vacation

10 Shesterkin or Stravinsky

11 With ___ a (lacking even one)

12 Prefix meaning “enormous”

13 “Come right ___!” (“Enter!”)

18 Wrote wistfully about

22 Set a limit for

24 Olympics event with shotguns

26 Fall to previous levels

28 Virginia’s ___-Macon College

29 Prong on a fork

30 From the top

31 “Sounds like a plan!”

32 God or glacé start

33 “Put ___ on it!” (“Quit talking!”)

34 Actress Reinhart of Riverdale

36 Partook of 37 Role for Clark

40 Flagstaff native, say

41 Physical fitness stat

46 South Carolina senator Scott

48 Birthplace of Marie Antoinette

50 Recreation’s partner

51 Having multiple functions, as a product

53 Patch things up

54 Everybody’s opposite

55 Highest mountain range outside Asia

56 Back-pocket item

57 Three-syllable berry

58 Watch over, as a bar

59 Salary 60 Fuzzy fruit

63 Jazz offshoot