The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Put down

6 Help (out)

10 Life phases, in social media lingo

14 Katey of “Married ... With Children”

15 International chain whose name can be a prefix

16 Weather the storm

17 Not take any chances

19 “No ___”

20 Disavowed MI6 agent in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise

21 ___ buco 22 Sister of Castor and Pollux

23 They’re done on the fly

25 Didn’t beat

26 Prefix with -gram

27 Connection between names

28 “Listen …”

29 “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” e.g.

31 In the nick of time

32 Series that begins on the ice planet Pagodon, with “The”

33 Possible (but extremely unlikely) setting for a double albatross

34 Sign

35 Nutrition fig. 38 How salmon is served in nigiri sushi, but not in sashimi

39 Large wine cask 41 Something a rival may throw

42 Set of rounds

43 “Alas!”

44 Tiny scrap

45 Big ticket purchase?

47 The Phoenix of the N.C.A.A.

48 Noble figure

49 Pioneer in I.Q. testing

50 Muralist who was a colleague of Dalí

51 Boy’s name consisting of an English word followed by its Spanish equivalent 52 Take

Down

1 Shoot for the moon

2 Crumple

3 Writer of the 2009 autobiography “Open”

4 “Open wide”

5 Boy’s name that’s an anagram of 9-Down

6 Video game climax 7 Collect

8 Modern lead-in to mania

9 “Of course, I remember you!,” perhaps

10 Heir to the throne, traditionally

11 Very slender

12 Hedonist’s opposite

13 Workers who must be quick with their hands

18 Experienced a pregnant pause?

22 Relaxing baths

24 Affliction treated in newborns with phototherapy

25 Giving quarters, say

28 How one might emerge with a victory 29 Secret lover?

30 Murmur

31 Character who’s heard but not seen

32 Way down below?

33 Floral arrangements

35 Fix in a museum, maybe

36 ___ bug (long-limbed predatory insect)

37 Start of a Christmas hymn

39 Collect, collect, collect

40 Pickup line

42 Hit on the noggin

45 Word with power or change

46 Org. concerned with traveling