Crossword No. 725: Playing for Time
ACROSS
1 Jimmy played by Pacino
6 Highly displeased with
11 “How ___ things?”
14 Whitney Houston’s “Didn’t We Almost Have ___”
15 /
16 Spinning thing
17 Peter Ueberroth won Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 1984 for organizing the L.A. Olympics, but it was a ___ for Soviet Bloc athletes, whose countries boycotted the Games
19 ___ fly (baseball play)
20 Composition for a soloist
21 Donald Trump was 2016’s Person of the Year, though viewed as an ___ by many Americans
23 Field and Kornbluth, for two
25 East, West, or Gulf 26 Right for the situation
29 Stage actress Salonga
30 Cathol., e.g.
31 Ted Turner was 1991’s Person of the Year, for filling the ___ of our TV screens with news of the Gulf War
35 Tibetan holy man
39 2017 Disney movie
40 Got together
41 October birthstone
42 Put an end to
43 Vladimir Putin was 2007’s Person of the Year, despite his authoritarianism being known ___ around the world
45 LBJ’s successor
47 Longtime NFL player/ analyst Cross
48 Crafty
49 Pittsburgh-based metals giant
52 Samples
55 Dwight Eisenhower was 1959’s Person of the Year, for smoothing over the ___ between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
57 Clears, as a whiteboard
61 Winter utterance
62 Singer recently named Time’s Person of the Year for 2023; five of her No. 1 hits are this puzzle’s theme entries
64 Driving force
65 Gossip’s start
66 Danny of Boston Celtics fame
67 ___ Kippur
68 Unclothed person, slangily
69 England’s Isle of ___
DOWN
1 Fruity kids’ drinks
2 Al ___ lado (Spanish for “on the other side”)
3 Mythical half-man, half-goat
4 They may bug beagles
5 Full of bluster
6 East Lansing sch.
7 Revlon rival
8 Denounces harshly
9 “I hate to break up ___”
10 Once more than twice
11 Far from any port
12 Sounds like a lion
13 Disney World section
18 Arthur Miller title word
22 How a promise may ring
24 Boutonniere’s place
26 Basic info
27 Story line
28 ___ Bell
30 Newspaper employee
32 “Happy to help!”
33 The ___ (Georgia’s largest city, casually)
34 Rod Stewart’s “The First ___ the Deepest”
36 Imitates
37 Downtown pedestrian area
38 Collaborator
44 Supervised
46 Leonard of movie review fame
49 Westminster, notably
50 Key ___ (largest of the Florida Keys)
51 Laptop insertion
52 Played (with), as an idea
53 He lost twice to Dwight
54 Horror sequel of 2005
56 Waikiki’s island
58 Belt one out
59 D-I connectors
60 “Leave this in,” to proofreaders
63 State south of Wash.