The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
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