The New York Times Crossword

By Brooke Husic & Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS

1 Numbers can be

read in this

6 Org. that offers free at-home hearing tests

10 Scholz of German

politics

14 Spanish count

16 Make it up?

17 Making headlines,

say

18 Bed cover

19 Emphatic suffix

20 Big name in vegan

cheese

21 Like conventional

music

22 Children’s TV character whose last name is Márquez

23 Big break

25 Some break dancers, informally

27 Plays the wrong

way

28 Telenovela

profession

29 Rama is one, in Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi novel “Rendezvous With Rama”

32 Locale dubbed the “Las Vegas of the East”

33 Knock hard

34 Who wrote “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

35 Words from someone who doesn’t want to be taken seriously

37 Deservingness

38 Elitists

39 Riffs on, modernly

40 Lovely, in Spanish

41 Buds

42 Tackles

43 Lewis who played Grizabella on Broadway

45 Texter’s “Ta-ta!”

48 Little bit of makeup?

49 One working on a

keynote

51 Card-dealing

casino device

52 Last-ditch remedies for computer problems

53 Authors

54 Cloverleaf

cluster?

55 Fix, as a bowline

DOWN

1 Bigeye, for one

2 Gender-neutral

possessive

3 Parts of tables

4 Stream

interrupters

5 Question expressing amazement

6 They may have

glass ceilings

7 Appealing to an indie audience, maybe

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8 Meeting extender

9 ___.D (therapist’s

deg.)

10 “… apparently”

11 Largest part

12 Exactly the way

you see me

13 Was defeated

15 Skyrockets

21 “Take my word for it, you’re going to love this”

22 Address

components

24 Acrylic finish?

25 Support piece

26 “Didn’t you just

leave?”

27 Family units

28 Letters that might make a long story short?

29 Course that may cover Dante and Ferrante, familiarly

30 Terse affirmation

31 Setting for most Laker home games: Abbr.

36 One of three in

Fiji?

39 Misselthwaite ___, setting of “The Secret Garden”

40 Soak (in)

41 Scummy locales

42 Gate feature

44 Get on the job

45 “Your guide to a better future” website

46 Figure in Sherpa

folklore

47 19-Across, to a

Brit

49 Preantepenultimate letter

50 Single-_ _ _