NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
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1 Part of a prison fence 5 Wright who directed “Shaun of the Dead” and “Baby Driver” 10 DNA collector 14 Integral’s calculation, in calculus 15 Small source of power
17 “Glad I didn’t have to deal with that!” 19 What God created after the stars, per the Bible 20 Epictetus, e.g. 21 Taste
22 “30 Rock” co-star
23 Pet
26 Low man 29 Con’s target 30 Landmark on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe 35 Classic sound effect in an action film when someone is badly injured 36 Long shots? 37 Was successfully enticed 38 Never-before seen 39 Cocksure 41 Member of the proletariat, metaphorically 43 Some creepy-crawlies 47 Johnny who used to cry “Come on down!” on “The Price Is Right” 49 Title locale in a Hercule Poirot mystery
51 What something goes *poof* in 54 Academic setting 55 Rod or reel 56 Where to find a Bitcoin price index, for short 57 Inception 58 Grammy-winning singer with the 2010 album “Soldier of Love”
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1 Rum-soaked cakes 2 Theater, of a sort
3 Fix, as a pool cue 4 Crime-fighting vehicle
5 Noble rank 6 Salad ___ 7 Fed. auditing agcy. 8 Contumely 9 Run-down 10 Leave a mark on 11 Carol king 12 Provide heat for, in a sense 13 What a seed might start out with 16 While, informally 18 Possible cold symptom 22 What the suffix “-genesis” means 24 Collected 25 Military drudges, for short
27 Part of a recipe 28 Aria, usually 30 Masters
31 “Do or do not. There ___ try”: Yoda
32 When Brutus dies
33 Ones who’ve been granted manumission 34 Carrier with trans-Atlantic flights since 1958 35 Sudden change of mind
36 Basic cable inits. 40 It’s a bad look 41 Admit, slangily 42 Result of a leadoff single
44 First black Disney princess 45 Fighter for the Moors in Zaragoza in the 1080s 46 Otto’s preceder 48 Sleeper, perhaps 49 Yggdrasil, in Norse mythology 50 Jazzman Al
51 It’s made at a construction site 52 Plant that sounds like two letters of the alphabet 53 Comments around cute babies