NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Hyperbolic figure
8 Je ne sais quoi
15 Quite a lot?
16 Home of Velázquez’s “Las Meninas”
17 “And so it begins!”
18 The Pantheon in Rome has one
19 Satisfied
20 Pokes around
22 Kick in
23 Postgraduate hurdles
26 Takes evening courses?
27 Bad fit
28 “No way!”
30 Not forward
31 Roaring Twenties style
32 Classic bit of groanworthy wordplay
34 Speaks sharply
35 Opera with a noted triumphal march
36 Power ___
38 Like some private eyes
41 Cajolery
46 Pseudologist
47 Car that’s “really lookin’ fine,” in song
48 Trade
49 Alma mater of Samuel Morse
50 ___ vez (again: Sp.)
52 To some extent, informally
53 Aspiration for many Second City performers, in brief
54 Stationary
56 Vowelless interjection
57 “Roger that”
59 Screenwriter’s pitch
62 Marine, say
63 Club owners?
64 Split hairs
65 High points
Down
1 Try to see the whole picture
2 Source of the line “Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on”
3 Shield bearer, typically
4 Regulation
5 Word before pick or pack
6 Sch. yearbook section
7 Hard-to-miss signs
8 Plant suited to an arid environment
9 One of Peter Rabbit’s sisters
10 Complex units: Abbr.
11 Grand finale?
12 Relative of the honeycreeper
13 Weird type
14 Motor contests with a portmanteau name
21 Bounce
24 Bygone Buick
25 2005 horror sequel
27 Eventually accept
29 Ceiling
33 Accelerate in the process
34 Snacks
37 Ad ___
38 Heavenly
39 So-called “Chinese chess”
40 Kind of shelter
42 Abraded
43 Station slot
44 “Decisions, decisions …”
45 Supposed sightings off the coast of Norway
47 Kind of type used in the Gutenberg Bible
51 Shelter grp.
54 Prologue follower
55 Cakehole 58 Dance genre
60 Annual e-sports competition since 1996
61 One of the March sisters