The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 1018

Across

1 Set off, say 10 Giant in health and beauty products 15 Rom-com, typically 16 Fabric for a wedding dress 17 Electioneer’s reminder 19 Avian mimic 20 Baileys, for one 21 Like fish that can be difficult to eat

23 Goal of a vacation, informally 24 Word in many a promotional poster 27 Diminish 29 ___ bourgeoisie (gentry) 30 Make fashionable 34 Yellowfin tuna 35 Shepherd 36 Pocketful or mouthful, say 37 Symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail 40 Senescence 42 Argue against 43 Current type of currency 44 Bike

46 Fruity liqueur base 47 Epithet for the uninformed 50 It’s a shore thing

54 One committing a fare-ly minor offense? 56 Group unlikely to get much playing time

57 It commemorates 1867’s Constitution Act

58 Rules maven Edmond 59 Receiving benefits

Down

1 The same, in legal citations 2 Shade of blue 3 Main lower artery, informally

4 Huge storage unit 5 Minnesota senator Klobuchar 6 2016 film about a 1967 Supreme Court case 7 Bygone artist’s medium 8 New York’s ___ Field 9 Episcopates 10 Dark yellow-green 11 A hired one is called a moirologist 12 Plied with alcohol, in a way 13 Hitching

post? 14 Deferential

affirmative 18 Auto accent 22 United 24 Transportation secretary Elaine 25 Home of the all-vowel town Aiea

26 John who wrote “Our National Parks” 27 ___ Rosewater, recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut novels 28 Dosimeter units 30 Maven 31 “Checkmate!” 32 Novelist Grey 33 Pushing the bounds of propriety 35 Drinking vessel with a stem 38 It’s part of a series

39 “No idea” 40 Te ___ 41 Flips out 43 Biblical miracle worker 44 Underworld ruler

45 “Viva ___!” 46 Need for some bypass surgery 47 What pruritus means, to laypeople 48 Part of P.R. 49 ___ Thicke, onetime latenight host 51 Hairstyle that needs pins 52 100 centavos, in Brazil 53 David ___, comedian famous for impersonating Richard Nixon 55 Ulan-___, Siberian capital