ACROSS

1 Serious kudos

 11 Participate in a regatta

 15 Place to see the Phantom menace?

 16 Ye ___ Shoppe

 17 Decorative

 18 Speck on a Lab coat, perhaps

 19 Was aware

 20 Sprite that you can't drink

 21 Matcha and oolong, e.g.

 22 Set straight

 24 Novelist Hoag

 25 It's put on winter roads

 26 Number of lives cats are said to have

 27 Shirley Ann Jackson's alma mater

 28 Arab leaders

 30 "Totally!"

 31 An idolatrous person might worship them

 33 It has a punch line

 34 Puppy pickup place

 35 Parents who can do it all

 37 Org. that might confiscate gel insoles

 40 Type of cheese with eyes

 41 Mike and ___

 42 Demonstrate

 43 Stylish

 44 "Chess" opening?

 46 Rib

 47 Widespread

 48 Language similar to Thai

 49 Champagne name

 50 Makes a choice

 51 Taxing job?

 55 Nintendo Switch preceder

 56 Like unfavorable odds

 57 Small unit of progress

 58 "That's delicious!"

DOWN

1 "Quit yanking my udder!"

  2 Month after Mar.

  3 "If Beale Street Could Talk" writer-director Barry

  4 Color of a traffic cone

  5 It might be made with tonkotsu broth

  6 "That was a close one!"

  7 ___ Stoppable (Kim Possible's pal)

  8 Consumes more than

  9 Sacred song

 10 Ability to take amazing front-facing photos

 11 Gentler part of one's personality

 12 Eager to listen

 13 Standards of excellence

 14 Bare minimum

 22 "Pick a card, ___ card!"

 23 Stretch the truth

 24 Person tearing up the dance floor, maybe?

 27 What Santa does before Christmas

 29 Cleans up a spill

 31 Fancy dressers

 32 Long, thin mushroom in Japanese cuisine

 33 Charges, like a cellphone

 35 Fan who might need to calm down when "You Need To Calm Down" comes on

 36 Cell division process

 37 "Another great point"

 38 "Send help!"

 39 "That was incredible" feeling

 40 Wish for a coupling between two characters

 42 Going steady with

 43 Black birds

 45 Actress Gugino

 46 Everybody, in Spanish

 49 "You're on ___" (Zoom reminder)

 52 Gal. or qt.

 53 Singer-songwriter Yoko

 54 Wine selection