DAILY THEME ACROSS 1 Harley-Davidson bike, in slang
4 Assume the role of
9 Like Vatican affairs
14 Plains tribe name
15 Emulate Pica**o or Pollock
16 "Too rich for my blood"
17 Place to pay the going rate?
19 Skin abnormalities
20 Dummies
21 Dennis the Menace, for one
23 Former G.M. compact
24 Margarine
25 Put at risk
29 Affectedly polite
31 Exactly right
32 Former Nevada senator Harry
34 How Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic
35 Something that might be thrown behind a teacher's back
40 Bowling venue
41 Input for fivethirtyeight.com
42 Like Baroque architecture
44 Purchase payment plan
49 In all probability
50 Add punch to, as the punch
53 ___ pro nobis
54 Cardinal's insignia
55 Florida senator Rubio
56 "O d**h, where is thy _____?": I Corinthians
58 Masterpiece waiting to be found ... or a hint to the words in the circled letters
61 Right-hand page of an open book
62 People eaters, maybe
63 Work of Horace
64 Namely, in Latin
65 "Toodles"
66 Room with an easy chair DOWN 1 "Oh, goody!"
2 Peter with eight Academy Award nominations (and, sadly, zero wins)
3 ______ Globes
4 iPad downloads
5 "Silent" prez
6 ___ Maria
7 W.W. II Allied landing site in Italy
8 Philatelist's buy
9 Polaroid, e.g.
10 Part of the brain believed to control emotion
11 Neptune's Greek counterpart
12 Big name in car parts
13 Capts.' inferiors
18 Booty
22 Rocket launch site
25 Taunt
26 "On the Waterfront" director Kazan
27 "I'm not kidding!"
28 Cincinnati-to-Philadelphia dir.
30 1974 top 10 foreign-language hit
33 Double-___ recession
35 Repeated word for word
36 "The Vampire Chronicles" author
37 The "them" in "Let them eat cake"
38 Restaurant freebie
39 The "thing," to Hamlet
40 Cut (off)
43 Letters on many ambulances
45 King of comedy
46 Mars, for example
47 Give in (to)
48 Guards at Buckingham Palace
50 One of the Three Musketeers
51 Singer Mary J. _____
55 ____ Verde National Park
56 Guru's title
57 Tricked but good
59 "Dr." who co-founded Beats Electronics
60 Actress Susan