The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Requirement

7 Wage conflict, say

13 Things often hit during rush

hour

15 “I Wish” rapper, 1995 16 Subj. of the 17th Amendment 17 Bit of inside info

18 Cold War missile type 19 Believer in the Horned God 21 Excellent

22 Campaign figure, informally 23 Front on the waterfront

24 Out of one’s head, in slang 25 Sci-fi portals

29 Fairy tale villain

30 “… unless I’m mistaken” 31 Writers George and T. S. 32 “You have my vote!” 35 Jeering words after a prank 36 Clear

37 Things you can barely see at

art galleries?

38 Time for an exhibition

42 Word derived from the Greek

for “age”

43 Rafter neighbor

44 Org. with resources on smart

growth

45 Fashion inits.

46 Do a favor

48 Reclined

49 Uses a stylus on a credit card

reader, e.g.

51 Role in 2012’s “The Dark

Knight Rises”

53 Take on 54 Whole

55 Really not good anymore 56 Specialty of Aristophanes

DOWN

1 Supporting character?

2 ___ von der Leyen, first female head of the European Commission, who negotiated Brexit for the E.U.

3 Remove one’s coat?

4 Wealth

5 It adds one point to a soccer team’s standing in the English Premier League 6 Proceeding very, very quietly 7 “Poppycock!”

8 Singer whose name becomes a city if you add an “R” in the middle

9 As ___

10 Reaction to some P.D.A. 11 Port of SE Spain 12 Restaurant chain originally

called Chicken on the Run 13 Borders

14 Protective suits? 20 Trig function

24 Sevastopol is its

largest city

26 Humorist Leo who wrote “The

Joys of Yiddish,” 1968 27 Shades, as with a pencil 28 “The Queen’s Gambit” actress

___ Taylor-Joy

29 Thick as thieves

31 Reigns, say

32 “Sure, it could be”

33 One might have a bunch of

errands

34 Anticonsumerists aiming to

help the environment

35 12 months from now 38 Homie

39 One doing some stitching 40 Methadone or oxycodone 41 Kind of state

43 Buddy of “Barnaby Jones” 46 “This one’s ___”

47 “___ Is Betta Than Evvah!”

(1976 album)

48 Actress Petty

50 Make extremely upset

52 Card