Crossword No. 657: Twenty Questions

ACROSS

1 Take care of

6 Exert minimal effort

11 Running joke

14 Go off-script

15 Occupied, as a computer station

16 Underground find

17 Croatia was approved this month as the 20th nation to adopt the euro as its currency; what Croatian-born inventor was played by Ethan Hawke in a 2020 biopic?

19 Create a cover story

20 ___ Moines Register

21 “Get that away from me!”

22 Accepts

24 Stress the similarities between

27 “Skyfall” singer

28 Add flair to

31 Bend’s state

33 Blazing, poetically

34 Bay bobbers

35 Command to a collie

38 Comical Carvey

39 What New Zealand singer who hit No. 1 with “Royals” is of Croatian descent on her mother’s side?

40 Angelic glower

41 Cartoon bark

42 Gumption

43 “Can you hear me?”

44 Highest points

46 Didn’t just weep

47 Utterly dominated

49 Intelligence

51 The Prado’s city

53 Sch. on the Charles

54 Every last bit

57 Exciting night

58 On what body of water does Croatia have a 1,100-mile coastline?

62 Shaving stuff

63 Breads from tandoors

64 Not the real deal

65 TikTok annoyances

66 Coordinates

67 Smooths out, as flour

DOWN

1 Desert grains

2 Brickell with a band

3 Yellowstone creatures

4 Uncle, in Acapulco

5 Side muscle

6 Mike who coached

“Da Bears”

7 “First off...”

8 Astronaut Grissom

9 ___ Mujeres, Mexico

10 They steep

11 What MVP honor did Luka Modric win when Croatia was runner-up at 2018’s World Cup?

12 Politician Sharon

13 V-formation flyers

18 In ___ (how ice cream may be served)

23 Altar agreement

24 Vox co-founder Klein

25 What industry (hint: see 58-Across) accounts for 20 percent of Croatia’s annual GDP?

26 Undermine

28 Pinkett Smith who hosts Red Table Talk

29 In the distance

30 What popular wines have been shown by DNA analysis to originate from Croatian grapes?

32 Peeper

34 Swings in a ring

36 Magazine with a French name

37 Above average

39 Cured food

40 Chops down

42 Strips in the road

43 Blogger’s acknowledgments

45 Apiece

46 Liverpudlian or Londoner, e.g.

47 Final letter

48 Greeted someone from afar

50 Stockpile

52 WWII turning point

54 Since

55 40-day period

56 Pringles competitor

59 Sought office

60 Business letters?

61 The Bulls, on scoreboards