Crossword No. 700: A Tale of Two Cities
ACROSS
1 “That’s my plan,” more formally
7 Cheese in a red rind
11 Org. with a “100 Movies” list
14 Parts of a chain
15 Shop with salmon
16 Comical DeLuise
17 Directions on how to cook frozen chicken pieces—or the matchup in the 2023 NBA Finals, now underway between Denver and Miami
19 Go head-to-head
20 Be a good journalist
21 Start for space
22 Melodic McEntire
23 Jan. and Jun., e.g.
24 First six letters: suburb of Denver where Coors has its headquarters; all 11 letters: famed Miami quartet, with The
27 “First off...”
28 “I ___ Rock”
29 Downton ___
30 Denver’s elevation, famously
33 Function
34 Band named for a river
35 Infield protectors
37 Days gone by
41 ___ Kids (Wild Kratts airer)
43 Miami’s elevation, famously
45 Numerical Newton
48 Jeans flaw
49 Shady tree
50 The main campus of Colorado State University (CSU) is in this city, just north of Denver
54 Spanish for “river”
55 Vacation destinations
56 Sandwich spread
57 Before, in poetry
58 The year 1002
59 This actor played the lead character in the Miami edition of CSI for 10 seasons
63 Strongest club
64 Goatee locale
65 Decide to skip, as plans
66 “Naturally”
67 “Auld ___ Syne”
68 “Morning Train” singer Easton
DOWN
1 Suffix used with hours of the day
2 “Hurry up!”
3 How fans cheer in the fourth quarter, often
4 Precious, as a play
5 Dykstra of baseball fame
6 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball champs
7 Defeated by 1, say
8 Surname on tractors
9 Chef Brown
10 Start for adventure
11 Rightly or wrongly, e.g.
12 Personal weakness
13 “Whatever you want is fine with me”
18 1980s arcade game
22 Steak-house option
23 Kid creators
24 Cry of shocked horror
25 Leaves out
26 Petrol, in the States
31 Americans abroad
32 There are 336 in a fortnight (abbr.)
33 Bolt on tracks
36 “End of discussion”
38 Go against the line judge, say
39 Can’t do without
40 Sesame Street doll
42 Hidden email
44 Albums of the ‘70s
45 “Please, allow me...”
46 Super-friendly
47 ___ Army (golf fans of yore)
51 Berkshire Hathaway’s city
52 Linda in Alice
53 Telling tall tales
57 Two-country lake
59 650
60 The Amazing Race network
61 Sound made when sliding into a hot tub
62 ___ whim (spontaneously)