N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Eats before dinner? 10 Gamble 14 Dangerous toy 16 Dramatic opening 17 No light amount of work 19 Photo ___ 20 Gets hitched 21 Overseas dissent 22 Exploit 24 Go down or come up 26 Shot contents 28 Garment originally fashionable in the late 1950s 32 Childhood home of Grant Wood and Elijah Wood 34 Talk show host named in the #MeToo movement 35 Dance in which “you bring your knees in tight” 36 Way to get around writer’s block? 37 Makes tingly, in a way 41 Dinner from the oven 42 Home of the 11,000-footdeep Cotahuasi Canyon 43 External: Prefix 44 Fully accept 51 Wine aperitif 52 TV series whose first episode was titled “Where Is Everybody?” 55 Polo on the small screen 56 They typically revolve around steps 57 Polite reply to Aunt Polly 58 Subject of many emo songs

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1 Orchard pests 2 River from the Appalachians 3 Program that analyzes the structure of input 4 Emergency key 5 So 6 City SW of Kansas City 7 “___ 101” (former Nickelodeon sitcom) 8 Connection concerns, in brief 9 Renaissance painter Guido 10 Org. in 2017’s “Dunkirk” 11 What laying a king on its side in chess means 12 “Elektra” composer 13 Their checks don’t check out 15 Like half a deck 18 Pictures that might make you hungry 23 Owner of the Cheshire Cat, with “the” 25 Harden the outside of through cooking 27 Hearty entree 28 Actress Hayek 29 Spring arrival 30 Certain racing teams 31 ___ Zor-El, Supergirl’s birth name 33 Problem for a plumber 34 Crib users 35 Counterpart of an iamb 36 Fairly 38 River to the South China Sea 39 Comes with 40 Least in question 45 Unaccounted for, briefly 46 Unappealing trumpet sound 47 Frosty film 48 Jon who wrote and illustrated “Smart Feller, Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms” 49 Julie ___, host of TV’s “Big Brother” 50 Italian diminutive suffix 53 ___ O’Hara, Martian’s host on old TV’s “My Favorite Martian” 54 Wine shop offering, informally