The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 1002

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