The Final Word

By Graham Meyer

Across
1. Fast way to get from Paris to Lyon
4. Head of a government organization, colloquially
8. Got steamed
14. St. Louis, for one
15. Big campaign word
16. Finish passing a cemetery, maybe
17. Harry Potter portrayer
20. Win-place wager
21. They have long necks
22. ‘96 also-ran
23. First choice
24. Gendarme’s cap
28. Aramis compatriot
31. U-Haul competitor
32. Oscar winner for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
37. ___-Cat
38. Sneeze stopper, possibly
39. Judge of the Old West
41. Butt heads
42. The Parent Trap star
44. 7-time French Open champ
46. Snapper Adams
47. Fish story subject?
48. Take on
50. Plaything that’s no fun on a still day
54. It can represent the first sound in “thin”
56. Recognize
58. He played the Penguin in the “Batman” TV series
62. Provokes, as wrath
63. Azerbaijan neighbor
64. Bullfight yell
65. Maynard G. Krebs feature
66. Thus
67. Bugs’s voice

Down
1. Covered a fallow period, with “over”
2. Pharma giant, for short
3. Greasy-palmed?
4. Trumpeter Baker
5. Dreyfus affair figure
6. Car-commercial abbreviation
7. Cinema vÈritÈ objective
8. Splinter congregations
9. Drive shaft endpoint
10. Glenlivet, for one
11. Churchill’s “few”
12. 2003 Will Ferrell hit
13. Actress Ruby
18. Period of increased glaciation
19. Name
23. “If I ___ so myself”
25. Henry Ford’s son
26. “In the ___ Colony”: Kafka story
27. Reversal of Fortune Oscar nominee
29. Claustrophobic
30. Zeus’s sister/wife
31. Pell-mell, for one?
32. Expert
33. What Elvis is, in supermarket tabloids
34. Ipana rival
35. “Goodnight” girl
36. Playroom floor clutter
40. Scammed
43. University of Wyoming city
45. Hooch
48. Steppenwolf author
49. First word of “Piano Man”
51. Vernacular
52. Earl, or “My Name Is Earl”
53. Lucy’s pal
55. Where you are, on a map arrow
56. Jutting rock
57. Clinton’s attorney general
58. Like linemen, generally
59. Game whose name the winner says shortly before the end
60. “His Master’s Voice” co.
61. What a gaffer does?

What do 17-, 32-, 42-, and 58-Across have in common? Other than all being in this puzzle, smarty pants. And other than all being actors—that’s too obvious. The answer is more puzzly than that. Here’s a hint: The group connection in 17-Across is a former member of the group. The other three are current members. That should help to some degree, at least. If not, keep thinking. You may find the answer very educational.

Answers on Page 20

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