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Sat, May 16, 2015 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Coffee-brewing device
  2. 8. "I haven't the foggiest"
  3. 15. Parole board consideration
  4. 16. Like news blogs, typically
  5. 17. Swedish university where Anders Celsius taught
  6. 18. Faulty, as a tank
  7. 19. Natural shelter
  8. 20. Hall-of-Famer with exactly 3,000 hits
  9. 21. Goddess of magic
  10. 22. Expert in calculating
  11. 23. Big Florida export
  12. 24. Sixth in a series
  13. 25. Off the ground
  14. 27. Ones skewered in P. J. O'Rourke's "Parliament of Whores"
  15. 28. Moves toward the middle
  16. 31. Children of American Communists
  17. 36. Started a movement, metaphorically
  18. 37. Barbera d'___ (Italian wine)
  19. 41. Hole in the head
  20. 42. Former Jordanian queen
  21. 43. Exactly, informally
  22. 45. ___-com
  23. 46. Bygone Finnish coin
  24. 47. Deva, for one
  25. 49. Big name in oil
  26. 50. Poet who won three Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album
  27. 51. Tufted songbirds
  28. 52. Brush up on
  29. 53. Being tracked, in a way
  30. 54. Swore
  31. 55. Tail waggers?

Down

  1. 1. Highest officer in his field, ironically
  2. 2. Welcome out
  3. 3. Unsuitable for locavores
  4. 4. Tourist purchase
  5. 5. Rattle on
  6. 6. Setting for Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler"
  7. 7. Contents of some chests
  8. 8. "Isn't he great!"
  9. 9. French pioneer of sign language
  10. 10. Douglas who wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  11. 11. Adopt
  12. 12. British beer with a kick
  13. 13. Bonkers
  14. 14. Tools with semicircular blades
  15. 20. What may help you hang in there?
  16. 22. Bed-hopped
  17. 25. "You ___?"
  18. 26. Some pasta
  19. 29. Languish
  20. 30. Forever stamp?
  21. 32. Secret society brother to George W. Bush and John Kerry
  22. 33. 1960s-'70s detective series
  23. 34. Cheap ride
  24. 35. Group governed by the Imperial Divan
  25. 37. Note in B major but not E major
  26. 38. Rubylike gem
  27. 39. Wrestle
  28. 40. Verily
  29. 44. Place bereft of happy campers?
  30. 46. Rock: Prefix
  31. 48. Cause for an R rating
  32. 49. Lush
  33. 51. Barnyard male

This puzzle was published on Saturday, May 16, 2015 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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