NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Leaves with a pungent taste in one's mouth? (4 letters)

5 Across: Artist's pad, perhaps (4 letters)

9 Across: ___ pad (5 letters)

14 Across: Country that celebrates Stork Day on March 25 to honor the return of its national bird (9 letters)

16 Across: It follows that (5 letters)

17 Across: Orchestrator's work (9 letters)

18 Across: Hot potato or cold fish, e.g. (5 letters)

19 Across: S-shaped hanger (8 letters)

20 Across: Saps (6 letters)

21 Across: Very long span (4 letters)

22 Across: Nudge (6 letters)

23 Across: Like some saws and bobsleds (6 letters)

26 Across: Light refreshments? (8 letters)

28 Across: With 30-Across, kind of movement (5 letters)

29 Across: Nutty pastry (9 letters)

30 Across: See 28-Across (3 letters)

31 Across: First Day observers (7 letters)

33 Across: Intel component, for short (3 letters)

34 Across: Emcee (9 letters)

36 Across: Break dancing? (5 letters)

38 Across: Alex Honnold's "How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without ropes" and others (8 letters)

39 Across: Kind of concrete that does not require pre-mixing (6 letters)

40 Across: Lengths at the London Olympics (6 letters)

41 Across: "He clasps the ___ with crooked hands": Tennyson, "The Eagle" (4 letters)

42 Across: Eponymous Ontario brewer John (6 letters)

43 Across: Kind of catfish or screw (8 letters)

47 Across: Stupefied (5 letters)

48 Across: Spicy, savory South Asian dish (9 letters)

49 Across: Vape marketing claim (5 letters)

50 Across: Depiction on a 1969 postage stamp honoring the Apollo 8 mission (9 letters)

51 Across: Lock (5 letters)

52 Across: Cabinets used by cantors (4 letters)

53 Across: Sow what? (4 letters)

1 Down: Kind of juice in a bloody Caesar (4 letters)

2 Down: Charter (4 letters)

3 Down: Name amusingly hidden in "cutthroat razor" (4 letters)

4 Down: End of a riddle (7 letters)

5 Down: Biscayne Bay, for example (6 letters)

6 Down: Whopper topper (5 letters)

7 Down: Bad tipper? (4 letters)

8 Down: Word with dog or ear (3 letters)

9 Down: Bunch of dubious characters? (14 letters)

10 Down: 1988 comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ivan Danko (7 letters)

11 Down: Creature features? (10 letters)

12 Down: Confection named for Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto (10 letters)

13 Down: Finishes a shift? (4 letters)

15 Down: Country house? (14 letters)

20 Down: "Go ___" (environmentalist's catchphrase) (5 letters)

22 Down: Fast bowler, in cricket (5 letters)

23 Down: "My ___" (5 letters)

24 Down: Noted DC locale since 1939 (10 letters)

25 Down: Freewheeling exchange (10 letters)

26 Down: Toys from China, for short (5 letters)

27 Down: Set back the growth of (5 letters)

29 Down: Starts to make a move (5 letters)

32 Down: Available, as an apartment (5 letters)

35 Down: Pontiac and others (7 letters)

37 Down: Ethnic group in China's Xinjiang region (7 letters)

39 Down: Works in progress (6 letters)

41 Down: Supreme Court position (5 letters)

42 Down: Stuff in a trap (4 letters)

43 Down: "In time we hate that which we often ___": "Antony and Cleopatra" (4 letters)

44 Down: Fort ___, Ontario (4 letters)

45 Down: Rump of Parliament? (4 letters)

46 Down: Processed with bloodroot or butternut (4 letters)

48 Down: Actress/comedian Benaderet (3 letters)