The Puzzlers

ACROSS

1 C-3P0 or R2-D2 6 Fixed corn 12 Diadems

14 Stick fast 15 “Seinfeld” role 16 Noisy fan 17 Authorizes

18 Ill temper

19 -- Andreas Fault 21 Happy sighs 23 Speck

26 -- take forever! 27 Ms. Thurman of film 28 Choir voice 30 Show disapproval 31 Brut 32 Campaign topic 33 Fill with 35 Frontier’s -- Carson 37 Clean-air org. 38 Pay cash

39 Kind of system 40 Checkers side 41 9-digit no. 42 Before, in combos 43 Cousteau’s summer 44 Festive night

46 Mr. Buchwald 48 Dinner course 51 Estimated 55 Furry engineer 56 Win over 57 Shady nooks 58 Arm-raising muscles

DOWN

1 Country addr. 2 Salad dressing base 3 Pasture cry

4 Easy-to-find constellation 5 Sleeveless top 6 Notre Dame’s city 7 Smell 8 Fly-catching birds 9 Hamster, maybe 10 Sooner than anon 11 “The,” to Wolfgang 13 Oscar’s street 19 Crushes underfoot 20 Mud bricks 22 Cyber crook 24 Coin-slot word 25 Wig cousin 26 Nile wader 27 Drew on 28 Longtime Balkan leader

29 Pored over

34 Daunt

36 Glacial epoch (2 wds.) 42 Equals

43 Liszt opus 45 Swerve 47 McNally partner 48 Diminish 49 Opposite of “paleo” 50 Playing marble 52 Hair-styling goo 53 Wolf, say

54 Rx givers