The New York Times Crossword
No. 0915
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 D.M.V. 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