The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 “Sick!”

7 Badger

13 Where many video calls are taken

15 Sails event?

16 eBay feature

18 Pair for each state

19 Boxing ringers

20 Creature prized for its long legs

30 Some basketball venues … or players

31 “Let’s Make a Deal” option

32 Film character who debuted in “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” (2005)

33 Not stop with one or two, say

34 Contents of a list, maybe

37 Used a lever on

39 Backstabber

41 Philanthropist George

42 Magic 8 Ball response

52 Draft announcement?

53 Instruments made from gourds

54 Plant pores

55 Furtive

56 Doesn’t let a peep out of

DOWN

1 Setting in a Spike Lee film

2 Midwest tribe

3 Something that people like to see break

4 Old settings for tragedies

5 Jaunty

6 Subject of the Netflix series “Narcos”

7 “Over my dead body!”

8 8+, for Yahtzee

9 Rank

10 Flour used in Indian cuisine

11 Editor’s note

12 Early 2000s outbreak

14 Some complainers, in modern lingo

15 DMV issuance

17 Epitome of smoothness

20 Tops

21 Pick up

22 _ _ _ Day, winner of a best actress Golden Globe for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”

23 All sizzle and no ___

24 “The Family Circus” cartoonist

25 Risk it all, say

26 Announcer of yore

27 Wrestler Rousey

28 Breed of cattle

29 Road Runner’s sounds

35 L.C.D. component

36 Hair nets

37 They’re smart these days

38 “... for anger ___ in the bosom of fools”: Ecclesiastes

40 Newspaper nickname

42 Video game series with “Spa Day” and “Jungle Adventure” expansion packs, with “The”

43 Volunteer’s response

44 Richard of Hollywood

45 Sports org. headquartered in Indianapolis

46 Darn it!

47 Slacks, informally

48 _ _ _ law

49 “Sure thing”

50 One-named designer born Romain de Tirtoff

51 Large amounts