NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Have serious plans

9 Across: One of the fam

14 Across: Annual appraisal statement

15 Across: Positioned to win

16 Across: Track event won by the fastest four legs

17 Across: Marvel Comics villain with an explosive superpower

18 Across: American court org.

19 Across: Ensemble piece

21 Across: Some sous-chef scraps

23 Across: Three-time Olympic figure skating champion

24 Across: A.M. cupfuls

26 Across: Band at a Jimmy Buffett concert?

28 Across: "America's Largest Classroom"

29 Across: Cinch

30 Across: With whom one pools pounds for quarters

33 Across: Copy

34 Across: Count to 10, perhaps

35 Across: Opposite of proud

37 Across: Get past a paywall, say

38 Across: Boundaries between areas with different amounts of coverage

40 Across: Healing agent

41 Across: Hardly worth mentioning

42 Across: Counterpoint segue

43 Across: One who's left at the polls, informally?

44 Across: Bobby ___, first recipient of the Best New Artist Grammy Award (1960)

46 Across: Plague that precedes lice in Exodus

50 Across: "Let go of unrealistic expectations," e.g.

53 Across: Fabled example of poor competition strategy

54 Across: Actress Amanda of "Easy A"

55 Across: Penalty for exceeding a payroll threshold, in sports lingo

57 Across: Cartoonish bouncing sound

58 Across: "Hang on a sec"

59 Across: They can help one get a leg up, informally

60 Across: What all the buzz is about?

1 Down: ___ days (times past)

2 Down: Emma ___, protagonist of "A Woman of Substance"

3 Down: "Don't believe one word of that!"

4 Down: "I'm afraid not, laddie"

5 Down: Actress Sedgwick

6 Down: Word with comb or towel

7 Down: "Your offer is too good to refuse"

8 Down: Minestrone morsel

9 Down: Dwelling for clergy

10 Down: "The most beautiful river on earth," per Thomas Jefferson

11 Down: One may sit near a bench marking time

12 Down: Strap-and-buckle shoes named for a comic strip character who wore them

13 Down: Bother

14 Down: Beat but good

20 Down: Daughter of one's 9-Across

22 Down: Firmly committed to

25 Down: Beat a map app's arrival time estimate, say

27 Down: Global fiscal policy org.

29 Down: Poetic device with inexact sound-alikes

30 Down: "Ha! Betcha didn't see that coming!"

31 Down: Abnormal talkativeness

32 Down: Lingering aura of success

33 Down: Most important

34 Down: "Thou art fairer than the evening air ___ in the beauty of a thousand stars": Marlowe

36 Down: Said with a wink, say

39 Down: Reddish fish sometimes served tartare

41 Down: "Dang!"

44 Down: Pieces in the game Othello

45 Down: Scraps

47 Down: Writer of the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

48 Down: Funds for research

49 Down: Cellphone hot line?

51 Down: Care for

52 Down: Remedy for deflation

54 Down: Kind of joint associated with smoking, informally

56 Down: Pulitzer-winning biographer Chernow