NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Couldn't get any higher? (9 letters)

10 Across: Stamp collector? (4 letters)

14 Across: "No need to worry around me" (9 letters)

15 Across: To the point that (5 letters)

17 Across: Drawing pad (9 letters)

18 Across: Opera with the shepherd's song "Io de' sospiri" (5 letters)

19 Across: Brand of oven-baked crackers (8 letters)

20 Across: Subject of a statue near Liverpool's Cavern Club (6 letters)

21 Across: Feel bad (3 letters)

22 Across: Look over (3 letters)

23 Across: Not good, but not bad either (3 letters)

24 Across: Azog the Defiler in "The Hobbit," e.g. (3 letters)

25 Across: Leader with a dacha (4 letters)

27 Across: It feels like it might never end (3 letters)

28 Across: Reason for penalty shootouts (3 letters)

29 Across: Rap group with the 1992 #2 hit "Rump Shaker" (13 letters)

34 Across: Don't stop believing (13 letters)

35 Across: Store with expensive items? (13 letters)

36 Across: One fast with the one-liners (3 letters)

37 Across: Brooks in Hollywood (3 letters)

38 Across: Headed (4 letters)

40 Across: Kinda sorta (3 letters)

41 Across: Cash flow analyst, for short (3 letters)

42 Across: Cheerful person? (3 letters)

44 Across: Trig fig. (3 letters)

46 Across: Schöningen ___, German mine discoveries that may be up to 300,000 years old (6 letters)

48 Across: Instrument in a bell tower (8 letters)

50 Across: Rounded object that's 1-Down with two letters swapped (5 letters)

51 Across: Eisenhower was the first president to use it (9 letters)

52 Across: End of a letter (5 letters)

53 Across: 1997 animated movie in which John Cusack voiced Dimitri (9 letters)

54 Across: "Hurry!" (4 letters)

55 Across: Part of a surveillance system (9 letters)

1 Down: Rounded object that's 50-Across with two letters swapped (5 letters)

2 Down: Deft (6 letters)

3 Down: That's a good one! (15 letters)

4 Down: Canalplasty docs (4 letters)

5 Down: Some capitol workers, for short (9 letters)

6 Down: Monk's home (5 letters)

7 Down: El Niño feature (5 letters)

8 Down: "Vous ___ ici" (4 letters)

9 Down: Bring home (3 letters)

10 Down: Not making a sound (5 letters)

11 Down: Nobody in particular, in brief (4 letters)

12 Down: "There's no doubt who's going to win" (15 letters)

13 Down: Flavor of some cough drops (8 letters)

16 Down: Surgical tool with a namesake medical journal (6 letters)

20 Down: In a row (6 letters)

23 Down: "Boulevard des Capucines" painter (5 letters)

26 Down: Sphere (4 letters)

27 Down: Boot (5 letters)

30 Down: Born losers (6 letters)

31 Down: It's nicknamed "Land of the Morning Calm" (5 letters)

32 Down: Arrived at via plane (9 letters)

33 Down: Count on one's fingers? (4 letters)

34 Down: Word after Rice or Cocoa (8 letters)

35 Down: Senegalese ___ (hairstyle) (6 letters)

39 Down: Canadian coin, informally (6 letters)

41 Down: Mastery (5 letters)

42 Down: F in physics (5 letters)

43 Down: Stand up (5 letters)

45 Down: Golf's "Slammin' Sammy" (5 letters)

47 Down: "The soul of opera," per Richard Strauss (4 letters)

48 Down: "Do you mind?" (4 letters)

49 Down: Idly look (through) (4 letters)

51 Down: American Airlines Center player, for short (3 letters)