N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Road movie producer? 8 Brokerage famous for its “spokesbaby” 14 It’ll give you a break 16 Movie villain modeled after Ernst Stavro Blofeld 17 “Nailed it!” 18 Home of the Red Cross 19 Overplay a part 20 Fields of energy 22 –1, for sine: Abbr. 23 Small drinks 24 Unwelcome kind of message 25 Terse refusal 26 “Was ist ___?” 27 Where Manila is 28 Apple apparatus 29 Unit of brilliance? 30 Aussie girl 31 Out for a week or two, say 34 Tie-ups 35 Flight attendants point them out 36 Mañana preceder 37 Hat features 38 Natl. Women’s History Month 41 Really long 42 Sweet, in scores 43 Story with many parts 44 Mars, but not Earth 45 Longdistance call? 46 Seltzer, e.g. 47 With 9-Down, Spanish leaders? 49 Like “Roma,” to Romans 51 It can dirty your Windows 52 Rears 53 Fulminated 54 “Easy peasy”

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1 Count (on) 2 Lack of oomph 3 Razor sharpeners 4 Weighs, in a way 5 Manitoba tribe 6 Lab grp. 7 Famous introduction that was never actually used 8 Mystery prize 9 See 47Across 10 “Star Wars” villain Kylo ___ 11 Mass number 12 From on high 13 Korean compact 15 Not right, sarcastically 21 Ginny’s brother, in the Harry Potter books 24 They may have images of Mozart and Cervantes 25 Some University of Virginia undergrads in 1969, for the first time 27 1972 top 10 hit that ran for 7+ minutes 28 Markers 29 Garçon’s offering 30 Snail trail 31 Rain forest menace 32 Chase with a drink 33 Household brand famous for its infomercials 34 Austin Powers’s car with a portmanteau name 37 Dad ___ 38 Rep. Waters of California 39 Set of priorities 40 Like AB negative among blood types 42 Treated, in a way 43 Might 45 Time long ago 46 Units of wire thickness 48 “Who ___?” 50 Italian possessive