NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Clear, as the deck 5 Nuts (over) 9 Some office workers on “Mad Men” 11 Greek god of the winds 13 Literary profile 16 Speed 17 Links things? 18 Romance novelist Roberts 19 Woman’s name that means “life” 20 Vitamin supplement brand 22 Bud

23 It forms at the mouth 25 Majors in acting 26 Not be stuck in one’s ways 28 Close ones 31 Be a bad winner 32 Home where the heart is? 33 Pinball player’s undoing 36 Is blessed with 37 Flood 38 Title locale for a Hemingway novel, with “the” 40 Tide competitor 41 Sews up 42 Strain 43 Woman’s name in English that’s a man’s name in Catalan 45 What a “R-rr-ring!” in the kitchen signifies 46 Slips, e.g. 54 Person with no one to play with 55 Names

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1 Worker in Albany or Sacramento, say 2 “Now ___ talking!” 3 Tokyo-based carrier 4 Game played on a 90-foot-long court 5 Painter’s mixture 6 “Peachy!” 7 A stream might run through it 8 Hose and belt sellers 9 Bald-faced 10 Joey Dee’s backup group in 1960s pop, with “the” 11 One who might grade on the curve? 12 Rows 13 Street ___ 14 Western New York natives 15 Discontinue 20 Choke 21 Faint prints, in detective work 24 Like Wookiees 27 Member of the South Asian diaspora 29 One of the Wayans brothers 30 Classic western hero who says “A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can’t break the mold” 33 Nails for kites 34 Word on a French wine bottle 35 Like bad, bad Leroy Brown vis-à-vis a junkyard dog, in song 36 Mideast traveler, of a sort 39 Double or triple feat in the Olympics 44 View from Memphis 45 “Nuts!” 47 Challenge for a barber 48 “The Problem With ___” (2017 documentary) 49 Annual three-day celebration 50 Tide competitor 51 In the back 52 Luau offering 53 Backing