The New York Times Crossword

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 NCAA

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