NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Have serious plans (8 letters)

9 Across: One of the fam (5 letters)

14 Across: Annual appraisal statement (9 letters)

15 Across: Positioned to win (5 letters)

16 Across: Track event won by the fastest four legs (9 letters)

17 Across: Marvel Comics villain with an explosive superpower (5 letters)

18 Across: American court org. (4 letters)

19 Across: Ensemble piece (9 letters)

21 Across: Some sous-chef scraps (5 letters)

23 Across: Three-time Olympic figure skating champion (5 letters)

24 Across: A.M. cupfuls (3 letters)

26 Across: Band at a Jimmy Buffett concert? (3 letters)

28 Across: "America's Largest Classroom" (3 letters)

29 Across: Cinch (4 letters)

30 Across: With whom one pools pounds for quarters (8 letters)

33 Across: Copy (5 letters)

34 Across: Count to 10, perhaps (7 letters)

35 Across: Opposite of proud (7 letters)

37 Across: Get past a paywall, say (5 letters)

38 Across: Boundaries between areas with different amounts of coverage (8 letters)

40 Across: Healing agent (4 letters)

41 Across: Hardly worth mentioning (3 letters)

42 Across: Counterpoint segue (3 letters)

43 Across: One who's left at the polls, informally? (3 letters)

44 Across: Bobby ___, first recipient of the Best New Artist Grammy Award (1960) (5 letters)

46 Across: Plague that precedes lice in Exodus (5 letters)

50 Across: "Let go of unrealistic expectations," e.g. (9 letters)

53 Across: Fabled example of poor competition strategy (4 letters)

54 Across: Actress Amanda of "Easy A" (5 letters)

55 Across: Penalty for exceeding a payroll threshold, in sports lingo (9 letters)

57 Across: Cartoonish bouncing sound (5 letters)

58 Across: "Hang on a sec" (9 letters)

59 Across: They can help one get a leg up, informally (5 letters)

60 Across: What all the buzz is about? (8 letters)

1 Down: ___ days (times past) (5 letters)

2 Down: Emma ___, protagonist of "A Woman of Substance" (5 letters)

3 Down: "Don't believe one word of that!" (10 letters)

4 Down: "I'm afraid not, laddie" (3 letters)

5 Down: Actress Sedgwick (4 letters)

6 Down: Word with comb or towel (5 letters)

7 Down: "Your offer is too good to refuse" (7 letters)

8 Down: Minestrone morsel (9 letters)

9 Down: Dwelling for clergy (5 letters)

10 Down: "The most beautiful river on earth," per Thomas Jefferson (4 letters)

11 Down: One may sit near a bench marking time (9 letters)

12 Down: Strap-and-buckle shoes named for a comic strip character who wore them (9 letters)

13 Down: Bother (3 letters)

14 Down: Beat but good (4 letters)

20 Down: Daughter of one's 9-Across (3 letters)

22 Down: Firmly committed to (5 letters)

25 Down: Beat a map app's arrival time estimate, say (4 letters)

27 Down: Global fiscal policy org. (3 letters)

29 Down: Poetic device with inexact sound-alikes (10 letters)

30 Down: "Ha! Betcha didn't see that coming!" (9 letters)

31 Down: Abnormal talkativeness (9 letters)

32 Down: Lingering aura of success (9 letters)

33 Down: Most important (5 letters)

34 Down: "Thou art fairer than the evening air ___ in the beauty of a thousand stars": Marlowe (4 letters)

36 Down: Said with a wink, say (3 letters)

39 Down: Reddish fish sometimes served tartare (7 letters)

41 Down: "Dang!" (3 letters)

44 Down: Pieces in the game Othello (5 letters)

45 Down: Scraps (5 letters)

47 Down: Writer of the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (5 letters)

48 Down: Funds for research (5 letters)

49 Down: Cellphone hot line? (4 letters)

51 Down: Care for (4 letters)

52 Down: Remedy for deflation (4 letters)

54 Down: Kind of joint associated with smoking, informally (3 letters)

56 Down: Pulitzer-winning biographer Chernow (3 letters)