Gentle giant on Game of Thrones / SAT 1-22-22 / Unrivaled champion in slang / Danish tourist attraction with multiple play areas / Person who lives on discarded food / Kind of coffee made with a flask and a filter

Constructor: Daniel Okulitch

Relative difficulty: Easy

THEME: none 

Word of the Day: LEGO HOUSE (9D: Danish tourist attraction with multiple play areas) —

Lego House is a 12,000-square metre building filled with 25 million Legobricks in Billund, Denmark, located near Legoland and the headquarters of The Lego Group. It is also known as Home of the Brick with reference to Billund, where Lego originates. Visitors can experience a variety of activities during their visit, including physically and digitally building with Lego bricks, programming robots and animating models. The centre's visitor experience includes four experience zones, two exhibitions and the Lego Museum, which showcases the history of the Lego brand and company. 

Lego House has been recognised for its innovative design, which aimed to reflect the Lego brand. The building incorporates 21 staggered blocks that resemble Lego bricks, with nine roof terraces containing children's play areas. The house was designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group and was inaugurated on 28 September 2017. The building is owned and maintained by Lego System A/S. (wikipedia)

"Lego House" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 11 November 2011 as the third single lifted from his debut studio album + (pronounced "plus") of 2011. It was released as the second single in the US on 11 February 2013. It was written by Sheeran, Jake Gosling and Chris Leonard, and produced by Jake Gosling.

The song received its first radio play on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 8 September 2011 and was Sheeran's first song to make the BBC Radio 2 playlist. The remix featuring P Money premiered on MistaJam's BBC Radio 1Xtra show on 30 September 2011. The music video features actor Rupert Grint, as a play on their similar appearance. The song did well worldwide, reaching top 5 on Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK Singles Chart, and top 50 on other countries including United States. (wikipedia)

Aside from the Harry Potter clue, which as usual can **** off, and the "GOT" clue, which, ugh, can someone read a real book, please, or read anything but lowest-common-denominator fantasy, anything, anything at all??? Other genres exist! Or if you need fantasy, there's Ursula Le Guin, she can write! I'd  accept some NK Jemisin ... Marlon James is doing cool things with the fantasy genre right now ... branch out! (and grow up) ... sigh. As I say, aside from the warmed-over Tolkien, I liked this a lot, but it was very, Very easy. The NW corner went up in a flash because I knew HORCRUX, and then just when I thought I might get thwarted trying to turn the corner into the heart of the grid (that BRAILLE clue was hard), I took one look at 32A: Cognitive contortions, looked at the ME- that I already had in the grid, and MENTAL GYMNASTICS went right in. The whole grid just bloomed out from there, with only a couple of small hitches on the way to completion. I wish the clue on MENTAL GYMNASTICS had been better, or more clever. It's just really just [Synonym for 'mental' Synonym for 'gymnastics'], isn't it? Not too much fun. But it's a great central answer, and the reason this grid is 16 instead of the typical 15 squares wide. Ironically, very few MENTAL GYMNASTICS were required today in order to solve the puzzle. There was one slightly harrowing passage, where I had to manage abutting proper nouns I didn't really know (HODOR, SOO), but luckily LEGO HOUSE was inferrable from LEGO --USE, so I slid through there, changed SLURPEE to SLUSHIE, and wrapped things up in the SE corner. Actually, I only thought I changed SLURPEE to SLUSHIE. EGO BOOST made SLURPEE impossible, but somehow I didn't write over the "R" and just left SLURPEE there. I fixed the ending to -IE because ICE CREAM was pretty easy to get (30D: Kind of sandwich), but I still didn't notice that the "P" from SLURPEE was still there, so HIRED GOON ended up being the hardest thing in the grid for me to get (29D: Gorilla with a job to do), but only because of my own error. Nothing to do with the actual difficulty of the puzzle. Must've lost 20 seconds or so wondering how any answer could start PIRED-... No trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself, as they say (as Philip Marlowe says, to be exact). By the way, I don't think you need the "with a job to do" portion of that HIRED GOON clue at all. Accurate, and much more Saturdayish, without it. I finished things up with THE GOAT, and if this puzzle doesn't make you feel like THE Saturday solving GOAT, no Saturday will. An EGO BOOST, for sure.