The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Bagel choices

8 Info on a medicine bottle

14 How a first date is experienced

16 ___ d’état

17 Penalty for a polluter

18 Biased

19 Sprout

20 Pearl Harbor hero for whom a future U.S. aircraft carrier is scheduled to be named

22 Student in College Station, Tex.

24 Some bags in boxes

25 New Deal program, for short

26 Judge

27 Props for some plays?

29 “The Godfather”

actor 30 Accords, e.g.

32 Date you might not put on the calendar

33 Ate the last cookie, say

36 Goes bad

37 Intensify

38 Big name in Deco 39 What’s the big deal?

40 Subjects of the 2018 book “Seeds of Science,” for short

44 At least one

45 Item of prison contraband

46 Was serious about

47 Like mysterious matters, often … or hotels

51 Dr.’s order

52 Cigarette that’s assembled by hand, informally

53 Cost-effective

55 Filers of amicus briefs, often

56 Place to get a cab

57 Feel it the next day

58 Goes gently to the bottom

DOWN

1 “Great news!”

2 Bring to a boil

3 Heavy hitter

4 Floor support

5 Café du ___ (landmark shop in New Orleans’s French Quarter)

6 Within: Prefix

7 Leave a mark

8 Most Best Picture winners

9 Refueling spot

10 Window part

11 Invariably

12 Lapped, e.g.

13 One in the running

15 Canned lines?

21 Blows a gasket

23 “Uh-huh”

27 Like the years of most presidential inaugurations

28 Quick fix

29 [awkward]

31 Pair seen three times in “All’s Well That Ends Well”

32 Lao-_ _ _

33 Lawn game seen regularly on ESPN beginning in 2017

34 Screams over

35 Mini-albums, for short

36 Alaskan king, e.g.

39 Posers are forever saying it

41 The hare, but not the tortoise

42 One way to serve chili

43 Nowheresville, with “the”

45 Lift user

46 Painter with a famous garden

48 Muse of history

49 TV series with Agt. Leroy Jethro Gibbs

50 Something you might watch with your parents

54 Leftover morsel