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Fri, Jun 20, 2014 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Prepare to speak, say
  2. 16. Nurse
  3. 17. Not now
  4. 18. Puts somebody out
  5. 19. FICA fig.
  6. 20. ___ corde (piano direction)
  7. 21. Ganders, e.g.
  8. 22. "Bummer"
  9. 25. President's first name on "The West Wing"
  10. 26. Slicker go-with
  11. 29. With 35-Down, slightly stale
  12. 30. Choice for bow-making
  13. 33. Inexperienced
  14. 34. Their contents have yet to be dealt with
  15. 36. Tenor Vickers
  16. 37. Defense Department dept.
  17. 38. She played Detective Sasha Monroe on "Third Watch"
  18. 39. Greetings
  19. 40. Dummy in "Stage Door Canteen"
  20. 41. Cellphone feature, informally
  21. 42. Fr. religious title
  22. 43. Hotel waiter?
  23. 46. Florida preserve?
  24. 52. Keen insight, with "the"
  25. 53. Peak performance in 1953?
  26. 54. Focus of HGTV's "House Hunters"

Down

  1. 1. Philistine
  2. 2. "August: Osage County" playwright Tracy
  3. 3. Westphalian city
  4. 4. Looking down on?
  5. 5. DVD-___
  6. 6. Snack since 1912
  7. 7. Fish with iridescent blue stripes
  8. 8. Automaker Bugatti
  9. 9. German boys
  10. 10. The old you?
  11. 11. Snack since 1900
  12. 12. Named names, maybe
  13. 13. Crazy quilts
  14. 14. "Look ___ now!"
  15. 15. Alternative to cafés
  16. 22. Raid target
  17. 23. Top 10 hit for Eminem or 3 Doors Down
  18. 24. Eponymous German physicist
  19. 25. Aerosmith's titular gun carrier
  20. 26. Gandhi opposed it
  21. 27. ___, amas, amat
  22. 28. Crime writer Rankin
  23. 29. China shop purchase
  24. 30. Intro to biology?
  25. 31. Business bigwig Blavatnik
  26. 32. Composition of Accent seasoning
  27. 35. See 29-Across
  28. 39. Big name in oratorios
  29. 40. Scottish island that's home to Fingal's Cave
  30. 41. First stabber of Caesar
  31. 42. 1930 tariff act co-sponsor
  32. 43. Joe, for one
  33. 44. "___ of Rock 'n' Roll" (1976 Ringo Starr hit)
  34. 45. Propensities
  35. 46. "Hug ___" (Shel Silverstein poem)
  36. 47. Exhibit upward mobility?
  37. 48. Some paddle wielders, briefly
  38. 49. Propose in a meeting
  39. 50. Bass line?
  40. 51. Romance novelist ___ Leigh

This puzzle was published on Friday, Jun 20, 2014 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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