Crossword No. 740:

The Families of Nations

ACROSS

1 A recent study in Japan warns that owing to antiquated marriagename laws, everyone in the country will have this surname by the year 2531; it's already the most common there

5 Cuddles in parallel

11 Get a leg up?

14 It can't be break point

15 Take, as a crossing street

16 Wonder

17 Brazil's president, whose surname is the most common in the country

19 Man cave, often

20 T-shirt sizes, briefly

21 Amazon speakers

22 Stephen in Interview With the Vampire

24 ABBA member whose surname is Sweden's most common

29 Pointillist's mark

30 Curry currently expecting baby No. 4

31 Make more money than your advance, as an author hopes to on a book

36 Chua or Schumer

37 Irishman who won Best Actor Oscar last month; he bears his country's most common surname

41 Jan. and Jun., say

42 Low-budget

43 High point 46 Philly hoops legend

48 This former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich star bears the most common surname of his home country, Colombia

54 Movie creatures of 1982

55 Hansen who hosted Will Shortz's Weekend Edition spot on NPR 56 USDA program

58 Paper that purchased Wordle in '22

60 This Downton Abbey star (and two-time Oscar winner) has the most common surname in England (and the U.S., for that matter)

63 Candy shape, often

64 ___ Mathers (one of Eminem's daughters)

65 Home for most humans

66 Flirtatious

67 Empty-___ (one whose kids have left the house)

68 Extremely

DOWN

1 Pizzeria in Do the Right Thing

2 “That's ___ idea!”

3 Worked the land

4 ___ whim (spontaneously)

5 Malibu ___ (Lisa Simpson's doll)

6 “You can't ___ rope”

7 Hunter only seen at night

8 Tripping like it's the '60s

9 Part of USNA

10 Van Gogh's ___ Night

11 Women's organization

12 Be in arrears

13 It may have a cap

18 Pertaining to canines, say

23 Ending for Siam or Senegal

25 Christmas

26 Scarf down

27 “How shocking!”

28 Vote against

32 Potato ___ (kitchen tool)

33 “Pass”

34 12 months old

35 Name on the Pulp Fiction poster

37 Nightclub in a Barry Manilow title

38 Moving shapes around, in math class

39 High points of a trip to the Rockies?

40 Neighbor of Ecuador

41 Rank above Capt.

44 Understand

45 Susie of Curb Your Enthusiasm

47 Like members of 11-Down

49 Korbut and Kurylenko, for two 50 1 or 2, say

51 The Last Sharknado actress Michaels

52 Like some headphones

53 Pasta dishes

57 Former Labor Secretary Elaine

58 Deal or No Deal Island network

59 Ming who's 7'6"

61 Ginger ___ (soft drink)

62 Leader on the renminbi