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Fri, Apr 11, 2014 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Retreat
  2. 9. "3 O'Clock Blues" hitmaker, 1952
  3. 15. "Obviously ..."
  4. 16. Uses, as a chaise
  5. 17. Particle ejected from an atom during ionization
  6. 18. Home of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
  7. 19. "Star Wars" villain name
  8. 20. Identify
  9. 21. Celebration of the arrival of spring
  10. 22. Blew out
  11. 24. Eastern hereditary title
  12. 26. Specks
  13. 27. Things worn at home?
  14. 31. Like some details
  15. 32. Maddeningly surreal
  16. 33. "Girls" home
  17. 34. Some adoption candidates
  18. 35. Address found online
  19. 36. Ones unlikely to drag their feet
  20. 38. ___ Ruess, lead singer of Fun
  21. 39. Weep
  22. 40. Order of ancient Greeks
  23. 41. There might be a battery of them
  24. 42. Rid (of)
  25. 43. Matt's onetime "Today" co-host
  26. 46. Runs the show, for short
  27. 47. Like prosciutto
  28. 48. Way over the top
  29. 50. Head of the Catholic Church when Luther's "95 Theses" was posted
  30. 53. Daddy Warbucks's henchman
  31. 54. "Gracious me!"
  32. 55. Completely safe, as a proposition
  33. 56. Lecture series with well over a billion views

Down

  1. 1. Century starter?
  2. 2. Something in that vein?
  3. 3. Line outside a club, maybe
  4. 4. Erode
  5. 5. Leaves of grass
  6. 6. Ran
  7. 7. High-level appointee
  8. 8. It has all the answers
  9. 9. Alternative to cords
  10. 10. Bowls, e.g.
  11. 11. Mauna ___
  12. 12. "... and who ___?"
  13. 13. Network connection
  14. 14. Part of a moving cloud
  15. 20. Foe of the Vikings
  16. 22. Tour parts
  17. 23. Bigwig
  18. 24. High beams
  19. 25. Orders in a restaurant
  20. 27. Millionaires and billionaires
  21. 28. Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program
  22. 29. Rapper ___ Blow
  23. 30. Elite
  24. 32. Part of a TV archive
  25. 34. Model introduced in the 1990s
  26. 37. Target of a 1972 ban
  27. 38. "Breakfast at Tiffany's," for one
  28. 40. Plain-spoken
  29. 42. Took in
  30. 43. Routing aid: Abbr.
  31. 44. Big Apple neighborhood next to the Bowery
  32. 45. "Christians Awake," e.g.
  33. 47. Semaphore signals, e.g.
  34. 49. Asian path
  35. 50. Hog roasting locale
  36. 51. Planet whose inhabitants age backward
  37. 52. Pair of Dos Equis

This puzzle was published on Friday, Apr 11, 2014 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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