The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0514

Across

1 Gold Coast port 6 Grade 10 Certain hieroglyphs 14 Snacks known as “student fodder” and “scroggin” in Germany and New Zealand, respectively 16 Home of the Starzz, one of the original eight W.N.B.A. teams 17 What few fliers desire 18 Michael of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” 19 Bug expert? 20 Winter Olympics equipment 21 See 44-Down 22 Old Forester and Old Overholt offerings 23 Ethereum or Bitcoin, for example 25 Shame 27 Site of an underground pool, maybe 28 Get an 800 on the G.M.A.T., say 29 Animal that comes to shore to lay eggs 32 Bel ___ (Italian cheese) 33 One of the Kennedys 34 Single-___ 35 Leftovers from a doughnut, say 37 Easy twopointer 38 Deep cuts 39 Bad sorts to be stuck talking to at a gathering 40 Savory Scottish delicacy 41 Go down 42 Drug kingpin on “The Wire” 43 Coffee spot? 45 Comedian Margaret 48 Actor who played Senator Vinick on “The West Wing” 49 Historic Charleston site 51 St. ___, locale in an English nursery rhyme 52 One way to crack a code 53 Studies 54 “Got it” 55 People

Down

1 You can bank on them 2 “___ Camp,” 2020 Oscarnominated documentary 3 Women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth ___ Stanton 4 Clear 5 Words from Mission Control 6 Stops lying 7 Cut 8 Things that pique your interest on TV 9 14 billion years, for the age of the universe: Abbr. 10 “You thought wrong!” 11 Judge unfairly, say 12 Person in a contract 13 Bygone potentate 15 Hockey game highlight, for some 21 Unsatisfactory 22 Begin the toasting process 24 Zinger 25 Kind of berry 26 Oktoberfest locale 27 Does a deep dive on a topic, with “out” 28 Inclined 29 They can cause anxiety 30 Gifts that are usually scented 31 West end? 36 Bigeye tuna 39 U.S. city that’s home to the largest Basque population outside Spain 40 Split, in a way 41 Tall order? 42 One of eight in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” 44 With 21-Across, straight up 45 2017 doubleplatinum debut album for SZA 46 “Shucks!” 47 Raw materials 49 Govt. org. whose director serves a 10year term 50 “How now?,” to a cow?