Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ PUZZLE BY: TRENTON CHARLSON NO. 0613

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

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