The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

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 Anti-consumerists 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