The New York Times crossword puzzle

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