Crossword No. 739: That’s My Interpretation
ACROSS
1 Powerful foursome
5 Drains, as of energy
9 Carnation part
14 “Stay in your ___”
15 Lose your footing
16 Point the finger at
17 Curved lines
18 Resort hotel chain
19 Stay away from
20 This baseball star cut ties with his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, in late March after alleged acts of theft
23 Acknowledge silently
24 Field unit
25 Digital storage devices
29 Some tennis tournaments
31 This translator aided Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Northwest
33 Put chips on the table
35 Pops
36 “___ see you there”
37 Rothwell of The White Lotus 41 Most loaded
44 Bitter drink
45 Suffix with lion or count
47 Battery trio
48 Pavel Palazhchenko was this world leader’s ubiquitous interpreter in the 1980s–90s
52 Sidewalk brightener 56 Leave without a ride
57 “Top 10” item
59 Actor Stephen or singer Chris
60 She played the title role of a U.N. employee in the 2005 thriller The Interpreter, director Sydney Pollack’s last film
63 TWA rival
66 “Consider it ___”
67 Thousand ___, Calif.
68 Place to play
69 Wave blocker
70 Thought
71 Brass or bronze, say
72 Info for a sabermetrician
73 Besmirches
DOWN
1 “I wish that were true”
2 Drive-in restaurant employee 3 Make difficult to read
4 Meeting, casually
5 Outwardly unemotional
6 Knight protectors
7 Nitwit
8 Card game that can ruin your deck
9 Classic sammy
10 ___: Mistress of the Dark (1988 horror comedy)
11 Natural order
12 “Where ___?”
13 Had the most points at halftime
21 Makes less severe
22 Maine national park
26 Boo-boo
27 Diner on the 1980s sitcom Alice
28 Preserving crystals
30 Slam Dunk Contest org.
32 Mercury or Saturn, for example
34 Atlanta medical org., casually
37 Keeps asking someone about something, e.g.
38 More than expected
39 Guam or Yukon, say (abbr.)
40 Wood used for hockey sticks
42 Desert pokers
43 “Told ya that would happen!”
46 Abandon your values for money
49 Food item in a bunch
50 Yak or zebu, say
51 Birth city of Marie Antoinette
53 Naval fleet
54 Journalist’s source
55 Gonzaga beat them on March
23 in the NCAA Tournament
58 Summer Olympics sport
61 Bookie’s calculation
62 “Go right ahead!”
63 Cooking spray brand
64 ___ You the One? (MTV show)
65 Piece of basketball equipment