The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 “Award” bestowed at the Kids’ Choice Awards

6 Garter and stockinette, in knitting

14 Outbreaks

15 Admonishment from Austin Powers

16 Took on a pet project?

17 “All rise” reversal

18 “Things ___ that simple”

19 Novelist whose “Little Fires Everywhere” became a #1 best seller

20 It was called Big Meadows on the California Trail

21 Bird whose largest species is called the Goliath

22 66, e.g.: Abbr.

23 Casual Friday gaffe

24 Self starter?

25 Slight contact, on a pool table

27 Like either main face of El Capitan

29 Lightened up?

31 Stand near a poser

33 Element exhibiting a blue glow when placed in an electric field

35 Unclothe

37 Like the bonds of table salt

39 Actor Diggs

41 Scaloppine option

43 Word before and after “’s”

45 “House” band?: Abbr.

46 Its population doubles once a year

47 Barossa Valley export

48 Bibimbap and tamago kake gohan, for two

51 Shire who played a Corleone

52 Popular Schubert composition

53 Single-minded philosophy

54 Features of many hotel rooms

55 Gets ready to dry, say

56 “Alas, it is so”

57 Group of runners?

Down

1 “We’ve heard enough of this nonsense”

2 Like some TV talk shows, informally

3 “There’s a lot more to this than you think”

4 Heart

5 Contractor’s fig.

6 Get serious, in a way

7 Children’s story with Truffula Trees

8 Playwright awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav in 1893

9 Links things

10 Jaw

11 Unfriendly crowd

12 Goings-on

13 Plant growing in tufts

14 Results of cuts, maybe

19 Lead runner, for short?

21 Really excited

25 Game whose name comes from French for “five winning numbers”

26 Response from one who ain’t gonna

28 90° from norte

30 Actress George of “Animal Kingdom”

32 Volatile personality

34 One who might say “Nothing is real”

36 It might conclude with a shower, informally

38 “Care to show me?”

39 Pub ___

40 Climb

42 Heat extractors, for short

44 Devils and Angels, e.g.

45 Apothecary measures

46 Cooperative hunter with the coral grouper

49 Romanian philosopher Cioran

50 Miniature

51 Labor

53 “___ Davis” (series starring Betty Gilpin)