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