THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Coffee-brewing device 8 “I haven’t the foggiest” 15 Parole board consideration 16 Like news blogs, typically 17 Swedish university where Anders Celsius taught 18 Faulty, as a tank 19 Natural shelter 20 Hall-of-Famer with exactly 3,000 hits 21 Goddess of magic 22 Expert in calculating 23 Big Florida export 24 Sixth in a series 25 Off the ground 27 Ones skewered in P. J. O’Rourke’s “Parliament of Whores” 28 Moves toward the middle 31 Children of American Communists 36 Started a movement, metaphorically 37 Barbera d’___ (Italian wine) 41 Hole in the head 42 Former Jordanian queen 43 Exactly, informally 45 ___-com 46 Bygone Finnish coin 47 Deva, for one 49 Big name in oil 50 Poet who won three Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album 51 Tufted songbirds 52 Brush up on 53 Being tracked, in a way 54 Swore 55 Tail waggers?

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1 Highest officer in his field, ironically 2 Welcome out 3 Unsuitable for locavores 4 Tourist purchase 5 Rattle on 6 Setting for Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” 7 Contents of some chests 8 “Isn’t he great!” 9 French pioneer of sign language 10 Douglas who wrote “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” 11 Adopt 12 British beer with a kick 13 Bonkers 14 Tools with semicircular blades 20 What may help you hang in there? 22 Bed-hopped 25 “You ___?” 26 Some pasta 29 Languish 30 Forever stamp? 32 Secret society brother to George W. Bush and John Kerry 33 1960s-’70s detective series 34 Cheap ride 35 Group governed by the Imperial Divan 37 Note in B major but not E major 38 Ruby like gem 39 Wrestle 40 Verily 44 Place bereft of happy campers? 46 Rock: Prefix 48 Cause for an R rating 49 Lush 51 Barnyard male