NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

1 Put on blast

5 Vegetable whose name comes from Igbo

9 Bill originating in Texas

14 It has its standards, for short

15 17-Across, for one

16 Raise

17 “On Being Brought From Africa to America” writer, 1768

20 Nobody else can take it

21 Campaign platforms, perhaps

22 Ground rule?

23 Milquetoast

24 Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective

27 Proportion of customers that make a purchase, in business-speak

29 More trifling 30 “Baloney!”

31 Gets ready to fly

32 Forgetting to finish this clue, for examp

36 Got taken for a ride, in a way

37 Your ___

38 Occasion to ask the Four Questions

39 After Brazil, the world’s secondlargest producer of coffee

41 Give a hand?

42 Left for the country?

43 “My goodness!”

45 Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drowning Girl,” e.g.

47 Bit of deductive reasoning?

49 Cocktail with caffeine

52 Can’t stand the heat, say

53 Kind of fixation

54 Foul smell

55 Rip (from)

56 iphone command

57 Real prat

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1 Catchy tunes

2 Opposite of rubicund

3 Battle site in Tennessee

4 Components of some sports broadcasts

5 Swing-era bandleader ___ Cates

6 Decks and floors, informally?

7 Alters the narrative, in a way

8 Familiar (with)

9 Laphroaig flavorer

10 Words from a paper pusher?

11 Region of Italy that lends its name to a pepper

12 Scream for a team

13 What Charlotte lives above in “Charlotte’s Web”

18 “The Lord of the Rings” actress

19 Unlikely gift

23 Courses

25 Vichyssoise ingredient

26 Source of the words “plaid” and “trousers”

28 Bacteriologist Walter who conducted yellow fever research

29 Preserver’s

purchase

31 Salon offering 32 Swear

33 Name that’s a homophone of 24-Across

34 Fuji, for one

35 Dom maker 39 Pages on the left

side

40 Profession

42 “And She ___”

(Talking Heads hit) 44 Indie output 46 Threat to crops 47 Common additive

to white rice 48 Fish named for a

weapon 49 *grimaces, sticks

out tongue* 50 “Which one of Arthur’s knights built the Round Table? ___ Cumference!” (groaner)

51 “My goodness!”