The New York Times Crossword
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1 “Ciao” 5 Out-of-focus effect in photography, from the Japanese for “blur”
10 Stunt for three, six or 10 people, typically
13 Olympic bars? 15 Doesn’t come out all at once
16 Deft
17 It’s a big deal
18 Most tongue-incheek
20 Pop-___ (some visits)
21 One might get a lead
22 Surrealist filmmaker Buñuel 23 Possible side effect of using steroids
25 Long division? 26 Certain pseudoscience, for short
27 Lead-in to rock 28 Director Lee
29 “Bad plan!,” in Southern slang 35 “Here hung those lips that I have kiss’d I know not how _ _ _”: Hamlet 36 Cells that handle low-light vision 37 “___ man can tether time or tide”: Burns
38 Some score marks
41 Ones who tell each other *everything* 42 P.A. gear
43 Emerald ___ 44 “A symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal,” according to John Steinbeck
45 Mystic
47 Org. that maintains a museum in Annapolis Junction, Md. 48 California’s San ___ County 50 Troubadours’ instruments
51 Show with an hourglass in its opening title sequence 54 Performancebased paycheck 55 They change colors
56 Spot
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1 Pupils
2 Off
3 “___: The Watercourse Way” (Alan Watts book) 4 Fashion designer Sui
5 Author credit 6 Exams you don’t need a pencil for 7 “Citizen _ _ _”
8 First responder, for short
9 Drum kit components with pedals
10 Unfiltered brew 11 Comment after a revealing moment 12 Sticker on a model, e.g.
13 “Take your time!” 14 Only
15 Baby covered in fluffy down
19 Fool’s deck
21 [Aw, jeez!]
24 Small part of a system 25 Carpenters, maybe?
27 Many downloads 28 “Thus ...”
30 Lug
31 “That’s rough, buddy”
32 Prepares to speak, in a modern meeting
33 Where pizza is said to have been invented
34 Finals, but not semifinals
38 Twist of a screwdriver?
39 Part of many 34Down
40 Impressed greatly, as at a drag show 41 They’re relayed in a relay
42 Big name in contact lenses 44 Thin slice of silicon at the heart of an integrated circuit 46 American soccer icon ___ Dempsey 48 Glutton’s constant desire
49 Spheres
52 “Suppose ...” 53 Pascal’s law?