NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Important figure on staff? (4 letters)

5 Across: Photographer's inits. (3 letters)

8 Across: "For real" (5 letters)

13 Across: Funky-smelling (4 letters)

14 Across: Sugar substitute? (10 letters)

16 Across: Within (4 letters)

17 Across: Core-focused workout in a humid room (10 letters)

18 Across: Unit of sound intensity (3 letters)

19 Across: Like Mitt Romney and Ken Jennings (6 letters)

20 Across: Lead-in to "coin" for a major cryptocurrency (4 letters)

21 Across: "Whew!" (8 letters)

23 Across: Whose fault your mistake might be (6 letters)

25 Across: Hybrid cat (5 letters)

26 Across: Member of a noble family (5 letters)

28 Across: Request after eating a habanero, perhaps (4 letters)

29 Across: What comes from needing little, per Epictetus (6 letters)

31 Across: Small dosage amts. (3 letters)

34 Across: Question posed at the end of a successful job interview (15 letters)

37 Across: Waze ways: Abbr. (3 letters)

38 Across: Spends a long time in front of the mirror, maybe (6 letters)

39 Across: Inkling (4 letters)

40 Across: Word with cane or corn (5 letters)

41 Across: Villainous expression (5 letters)

42 Across: Home to the Basilica of St. Clare (6 letters)

45 Across: Highly controlling? (8 letters)

48 Across: Like a golf course, regularly (4 letters)

49 Across: Snap, crackle and pop (6 letters)

51 Across: ___ Cup, tournament established in the 2020s (3 letters)

52 Across: "Never been better!" (10 letters)

54 Across: Site of a 1956 international conflict (4 letters)

55 Across: Animal chased by Toto in "The Wizard of Oz" (10 letters)

56 Across: Key in a chain (4 letters)

57 Across: Figure with three faces, in Dante (5 letters)

58 Across: Brief bit (3 letters)

59 Across: They're stretched out before some workouts (4 letters)

1 Down: Hard-shelled delicacies (9 letters)

2 Down: Public eye (9 letters)

3 Down: Written posts? (9 letters)

4 Down: Stoked (3 letters)

5 Down: Like some enemies (5 letters)

6 Down: "I need to get a word in!" (15 letters)

7 Down: Possible result of a default (4 letters)

8 Down: Before (3 letters)

9 Down: Not stop at the end of a chapter, say (6 letters)

10 Down: Suffragist Harriet Taylor ___ (5 letters)

11 Down: One doing the lord's work? (5 letters)

12 Down: Words of affirmation (5 letters)

14 Down: "Skedaddle!" (4 letters)

15 Down: Condition that can be caused by excess earwax (8 letters)

19 Down: Debussy's "La ___" (3 letters)

22 Down: Jay ___, singer of the 2009 #1 hit "Down" (4 letters)

24 Down: Sounds from fans (4 letters)

27 Down: Clip follower (4 letters)

29 Down: Some weather service messages (8 letters)

30 Down: "Wheat Capital" of Oklahoma (4 letters)

31 Down: Label on some domestic products (9 letters)

32 Down: Eco-friendly area around a city (9 letters)

33 Down: Stares into space (9 letters)

35 Down: Ones doing balancing acts? (4 letters)

36 Down: Windows feature? (4 letters)

40 Down: Pictures (6 letters)

41 Down: Message that might be signaled with smoke (3 letters)

42 Down: Off (5 letters)

43 Down: European capital with layers of Thracian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman history (5 letters)

44 Down: Beads for an athlete (5 letters)

46 Down: Director Lee ___ Chung (5 letters)

47 Down: Neighbor of an Estonian, historically (4 letters)

50 Down: They're sometimes picked for their rarity (4 letters)

53 Down: Wiseman who directed "Ballerina" and "Live Free or Die Hard" (3 letters)

54 Down: ___City (3 letters)