NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Much-used pencil (4 letters)

5 Across: Composed (4 letters)

9 Across: A bit off (5 letters)

14 Across: Isle that's the traditional burial site of Scottish kings (4 letters)

15 Across: Mayberry kid on old TV (4 letters)

16 Across: Sharp increase (5 letters)

17 Across: Market! (9 letters)

19 Across: Walked while fraught with worry, say (5 letters)

20 Across: Like a moon that is not full but is more than half visible (7 letters)

21 Across: Administrative role (5 letters)

23 Across: Sign up (6 letters)

24 Across: Ticket! (8 letters)

27 Across: Nottingham-to-London dir. (3 letters)

28 Across: It was you (4 letters)

30 Across: Attributed writer of the third Gospel (6 letters)

31 Across: Culinary connoisseur (6 letters)

33 Across: GPS's guesses (4 letters)

34 Across: Planet! (13 letters)

38 Across: Desert landform (4 letters)

39 Across: San Francisco team, informally (6 letters)

40 Across: Best and most awesome, in slang (6 letters)

43 Across: Times Sq. squad (4 letters)

44 Across: Humanities degs. (3 letters)

47 Across: Packet! (8 letters)

49 Across: Person's bidding (6 letters)

51 Across: Need for a greedy Swede? (5 letters)

52 Across: Great flair (7 letters)

53 Across: Nail a test (5 letters)

55 Across: Locket! (9 letters)

57 Across: Pie-in-the-face sound (5 letters)

58 Across: Sized up (4 letters)

59 Across: Hightailed it (4 letters)

60 Across: How a trickster might behave (5 letters)

61 Across: Group in a gym routine (4 letters)

62 Across: Margarine (4 letters)

1 Down: Drawn-out attacks (6 letters)

2 Down: Things to be cleansed from the body (6 letters)

3 Down: Powerless (6 letters)

4 Down: Movie with the record for the longest time between its release and the release of its sequel (63 years) (5 letters)

5 Down: Writing partner (8 letters)

6 Down: Many tech start-up ideas (4 letters)

7 Down: Trust eroder (3 letters)

8 Down: Some concert gear, informally (5 letters)

9 Down: Feature (6 letters)

10 Down: They might get lit at a birthday celebration (9 letters)

11 Down: Be super-successful, in slang (8 letters)

12 Down: Scrape (by) (3 letters)

13 Down: Give a ring, say (3 letters)

18 Down: Surgery recovery period, in brief (6 letters)

22 Down: "___ Troyens" (five-hour French opera) (3 letters)

24 Down: Collection of dishes? (7 letters)

25 Down: Up to snuff (4 letters)

26 Down: Treasure map markings (3 letters)

29 Down: God whose name has one "I," fittingly (4 letters)

31 Down: Offer from many a streaming service (9 letters)

32 Down: Start of a counting rhyme (4 letters)

34 Down: "Star Trek" helmsman (4 letters)

35 Down: Doubtful (8 letters)

36 Down: Musical promoters of school spirit (8 letters)

37 Down: Impassioned (6 letters)

38 Down: Insult (3 letters)

41 Down: "Star Trek" engineer (6 letters)

42 Down: Trig function that can output every real number (3 letters)

44 Down: "Don't freak out, dude" (6 letters)

45 Down: Where landlubbers are at home (6 letters)

46 Down: It often features panels with speakers (6 letters)

48 Down: Targets of some heists (5 letters)

50 Down: Was out of other options (5 letters)

52 Down: Word found at the start of "Poe, to name one" (4 letters)

53 Down: Burro (3 letters)

54 Down: Rank below sgt. (3 letters)

56 Down: Bread choice (3 letters)