The New York Times Crossword
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1 Gold Coast port
6 Grade
10 Certain hieroglyphs
14 Snacks known as “student fodder” and “scroggin” in Germany and New Zealand, respectively
16 Home of the Starzz, one of the original eight W.N.B.A. teams
17 What few fliers desire
18 Michael of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
19 Bug expert?
20 Winter Olympics equipment
21 See 44-Down
22 Old Forester and Old Overholt offerings
23 Ethereum or Bitcoin, for example
25 Shame
27 Site of an underground pool, maybe
28 Get an 800 on the G.M.A.T., say
29 Animal that comes to shore to lay eggs
32 Bel ___ (Italian cheese)
33 One of the Kennedys
34 Single-___
35 Leftovers from a doughnut, say
37 Easy two-pointer
38 Deep cuts
39 Bad sorts to be stuck talking to at a gathering
40 Savory Scottish delicacy
41 Go down
42 Drug kingpin on “The Wire”
43 Coffee spot?
45 Comedian Margaret
48 Actor who played Senator Vinick on “The West Wing”
49 Historic Charleston site
51 St. ___, locale in an English nursery rhyme
52 One way to crack a code
53 Studies
54 “Got it”
55 People
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1 You can bank on them
2 “___ Camp,” 2020 Oscar-nominated documentary
3 Women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth ___ Stanton
4 Clear
5 Words from Mission Control
6 Stops lying
7 Cut
8 Things that pique your interest on TV
9 14 billion years, for the age of the universe: Abbr.
10 “You thought wrong!”
11 Judge unfairly, say
12 Person in a contract
13 Bygone potentate
15 Hockey game highlight, for some
21 Unsatisfactory
22 Begin the toasting process
24 Zinger
25 Kind of berry
26 Oktoberfest locale
27 Does a deep dive on a topic, with “out”
28 Inclined
29 They can cause anxiety
30 Gifts that are usually scented
31 West end?
36 Bigeye tuna
39 U.S. city that’s home to the largest Basque population outside Spain
40 Split, in a way
41 Tall order?
42 One of eight in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
44 With 21-Across, straight up
45 2017 double-platinum
debut album for SZA
46 “Shucks!”
47 Raw materials
49 Govt. org. whose director serves a 10year term
50 “How now?,” to a cow?