The New York Times Crossword
No. 0723
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 Ankle-biter
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.