NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Quinceañera honoree
6 Draft pick?
15 Hub for Nollywood movies
16 What a snake or dragon can represent
17 Go/no-go directive
18 Despise
19 “Midnight Cowboy” role
20 Achieved something wondrous
21 Worked together (with)
23 Bit of summer wear, informally
24 Adroit, as a trick
25 Home of the Plain of Jars, a UNESCO World Heritage site
26 Pair of pants?
27 Indoor rowing machine, in brief
28 Group that counts Harding, Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy as former members
29 Louis ___ (predecessor of the franc)
30 1982 film with the tagline “Behind every great man, there is a woman!”
32 Material in some china
36 Halloween costume requiring a full-body suit
37 Subject of a smash hit?
38 Big retailer of camping gear
39 Make no effort to stop something
42 Charged
43 Cameron with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
44 Like many place mats
45 Actress with an Emmy nomination for FX’s “Atlanta”
47 Dealer’s new offering, perhaps
49 Starter course
50 Snarled
51 Ratio of two sides in a right-angled triangle, in brief
52 Submissions for a casting director
53 Shake
54 They’re sported while going on a run
55 Wannabe
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1 Wind known for its warmth
2 What might lead a person to drink
3 “Time to split”
4 Symbol of confinement
5 ___ Place, one of the original
28 stations of the New York City subway
6 Specialty of Rhode Island cuisine
7 Flexible musical tempos
8 Vacuum tube parts 9 Illustrious
10 Baseboard, e.g.
11 Intrinsically
12 Washington airport, informally
13 Attacking a sub, say
14 Settings for some scuba dives
22 Holden’s brother in “The Catcher in the Rye”
26 Out of bounds, in a way
28 Spot
29 Foundation, often
31 Variety of games
32 Incorporeal
33 Mozart’s “Voi, che sapete” and others
34 Business of the Dutch East India Company
35 Informal title in city government
37 Fleet runner
39 Pool side
40 Zeljko ___, 2008 Emmy winner for “Damages”
41 Japanese mat
42 Scout’s collection
43 From square one
45 Districts
46 Contractor at a gym?
48 Max ___ (couture label)