Edited by Will Shortz

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 (longlimbed 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