The New York Times

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1 LP, e.g. 5 Stories with many chapters 10 Instagram and others 14 Getting paid, say 16 Trouble with a tap 17 Part of a Central American grove 18 Field mouse 19 Beam shooter 20 Mel in Cooperstown 21 ___ dixit (unproven assertion) 22 Jerks 23 It takes time to sink in 25 ___ Decor (magazine) 26 Demand from a school bully 27 Hi or lo follower 28 Spit out 29 More minimalist, say 30 Series of rounds 31 Place to fish from 32 “___ the Sheep” (“Wallace and Gromit” spinoff) 34 Potential drain obstruction 35 Fate worse than a ticket 38 What goes after the wrong type? 40 Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, ___ Goin Down” 41 Pipe sellers 42 Brad’s gal in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” 43 Tombstone figure 44 Cheap beer option, for short 45 Country 46 Hotel/casino on the Vegas Strip 47 Foul 49 Go on a tweetstorm, say 50 Aquanaut’s chamber 51 Leg up 52 Word with skirt or strip 53 Pastoral verse

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1 Eponymous Austrian physicist who studied waves 2 Owing money 3 London burial place of John Donne and Horatio Nelson 4 “As ___ as unsunn’d snow”: Shak. 5 Mark of a villain, maybe 6 Not mainstream, informally 7 One of a series of attempts 8 Vinegary 9 Resource for an artist to draw on? 10 Like some boards 11 Balloonist’s tankful 12 Tall, slender, footed glass 13 No-wait 15 What a colon might denote 23 Drop 24 Store name with a big red initial 26 What shuttles leave from 28 What the Egyptian deity Ammit devoured 30 Chrome dome, so to speak 31 Google ___ 32 Like some fish and olives 33 Court procedure 34 Dress down 35 Comfy safari digs 36 Stewart’s onetime TV sparring partner 37 Battery type 38 Bundle up 39 Fictional figure whose name means “hole dweller” 40 Hot green stuff 42 Psychologist who coined the word “synchronicity” 45 Venue for broomball 48 AWOL, so to speak