across: 1. Like Delftware, CERAMIC ; 8. Robert B. Parker’s private eye, SPENSER ; 23. “The Right Stuff” subj., NASA ; 26. Precursor of Pascal, ALGOL ; 29. Designing women, SIRENS ; 39. Wolf who wrote “The Beauty Myth”, NAOMI ; 44. See 46-Across, with 44-Across, 1940 Laurel and Hardy film,