Crossword No. 692: Italiano, Per Favore

ACROSS

1 Supermarket roller

5 Dessert like crème brûlée

9 Photographer’s suggestion

14 Not that many

1 5 10K, e.g.

16 Language heard in Chennai

17 *Earlier this month, Italy’s prime minister supported a new bill banning the use of English in official communications; this English word meaning “strong statement of beliefs” comes from Italian, as do the answers to the six other starred clues

19 Kick out

20 March, often

21 Far from ordinary 22 Finger count, usually 23 Name of a file you should look at first 25 Cinematic Nicolas 28 Southern or Arctic, e.g. 30 “___ trying to explain...”

33 Love, in this puzzle’s theme language 35 Long-legged wader 37 Fuss

38 Former space station 39 Richardson in The Crying Game

41 Become maggotinfested

42 McMuffin component

43 Lite-___ (classic toy) 44 Microsoft tool 46 Fireworks display reaction

48 Ad ___ (2019 Brad Pitt movie)

50 Inflict upon

51 Lipton competitor 53 T-shirt size (abbr.) 55 Slate, e.g.

56 Love the attention 60 Tolkien’s ring-bearer 61 *Low-ceilinged story between two of the main floors of a building

63 Worker on floors 64 Fiona or Shrek, say 65 Head of France? 66 Insufficient, as evidence

67 Constricting snakes 68 Air freshener’s target

DOWN

1 Summer spot

2 In the distance

3 Clinton cabinet member

4 Where a blue checkmark costs $8 each month

5 Central California city 6 Go the distance 7 Congressional creation 8 Prefix with classical 9 Knight’s mount

10 Nissan since 1981 11 *Event promoter

12 Told tall tales

13 Letter after “kay” 18 One-time charge

21 Got smaller, as the moon

23 *Series of boat races 24 Moneymaker

25 *Brief appearance in a film

26 Chum

27 *Pungent cheese

29 Deep red

31 Words before “know” or “care”

32 *California’s is “Eureka”

34 Diplomat’s workplace (abbr.)

36 Faucet

40 More than mad 45 Combine with the batter, as chocolate chips

47 See 55-Down

49 Blows away

52 Pig’s sound

54 Greek vowel

55 With 47-Down, American Olympian who won five gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Games in Lake Placid 56 Pound or Klein

57 Like scores when overtime starts

58 Archaic preposition 59 Equal

60 Knox and McHenry (abbr.)

61 Out-of-control crowd 62 Self-worth