NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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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 make-up?
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
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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
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 Pre-antepenultimate letter
50 Single-___