NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Time-tested 8 Being tried 13 Pouring one’s heart out at a coffeehouse? 15 Lead female role on Netflix’s “House of Cards” 16 Sweepstakes exhortation 17 Radiance, in England 18 Exhibit flexibility 19 Biting words? 21 Descend upon en masse 22 “What is ___?” 23 Wearer of an “H”-inscribed hat 24 Snapchat’s ghost, e.g. 25 Pluto, to Saturn 26 Home to the Museum of El Greco 27 Lieutenant of 1970s TV 28 “___ Fancy has been quelled”: Longfellow 29 Awesome successes 31 Attempt to establish an online connection 34 What some caddies carry 35 The ___ Store 36 Smoother, now 37 Muchmimicked entertainer 39 Budgeter’s concern 42 Dodgers’ pursuers 43 Like H-U-M-O-U-R 44 Monastery head 45 1950s song syllable 46 Major port near the Persian Gulf 47 Sticks in the mud 48 Maker of hospital cuts 50 Airport monitor 52 Hard-wired 53 Words next to an X 54 Heavens 55 Key
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1 Slip preventers 2 Shore line? 3 Reach 4 Manual sequence 5 Rockefeller Center muralist 6 Actor Hunter or singer Hunter 7 Sports stick 8 Application to a cut
9 U. 2’s? 10 Cartoon avatars on Snapchat 11 Confident to a fault 12 Some athletic footwear 14 Certain social media notifications 15 Big role for Liz Taylor 20 Bistro offering 23 Fail to be 24 Big-box store founded in 1946 26 Seminary study 27 Single-serve coffee holders 28 Sportscaster Rich
30 Cry of exasperation 31 Bit of sports fan paraphernalia 32 Show for which Laurie Metcalf won three Emmys 33 Ocean areas 34 Does not disturb 38 Competitor of Mt. Olive 39 Drive like hell 40 Ankh-holding deity 41 Baby blue, e.g. 43 Be adequate for
44 Word before or after green 46 Over and under, e.g. 47 Michael who directed “The Insider” 49 Fire 51 Sensitive conversation topic