Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Earth, for one
4 Dred Scott decision Chief Justice
9 Leg section
13 Two-digit sign
14 Thrifty to begin with?
15 Central Plains tribe
16 “__ la vie”
17 *Guide for Smithsonian visitors, say
19 Food scrap
20 Hardly libertine
21 Pithy saying
22 *Ken Burns
specialty
26 Fairy tale figures
27 Mother __
28 Money with hits
29 Retreats
31 Word with bonds
or games
34 Line holder
35 Barely detectable
36 Tiny particle
37 Future H.S. grads, probably
38 Volcanic eruption sight
39 Nested supermarket array
40 Nana
41 “Amen to that!”
42 *Southeast Asian colonial region dismantled in 1954
45 Earth’s volume?
47 Mandlikova of ’80s tennis
48 Mexican pinch?
49 Classic Looney Tunes tagline offering some “direction” in solving the starred clues
51 Office figure
52 Legends and such
53 Cloth-dyeing method
54 Pro using a siren, perhaps
55 Went after, in a way
56 Objects of worship
57 Earth opening?
DOWN
1 With 3-Down, sportsbook option based on the final score
2 Game system turnoff options
3 See 1-Down
4 What a siren does
5 Lexus competitor
6 Polite denial
7 Combat demarcation point
8 “__ busy?”
9 Indulge
10 Starting players
11 Sleep-inducing, maybe, as a lecture
12 Fancy party
16 Eccentric old guys
18 “Downton Abbey” personnel
23 Man’s name that becomes a measurement when one letter is moved
24 Once called
25 The Alamo, e.g.
29 Starting point of many modern missions
30 Intention
31 Unsettling
32 Puts in sync with
33 Zips again, as a Ziploc bag
35 Rich dessert
36 Subject with shapes
38 First Amendment concern
39 Fish-and-chips fish
40 Like Romano, often
41 Chips, say
42 Emergency device
43 Couldn’t not
44 How tuna may be packed
45 Hole makers
46 “O Julius Caesar, __ art mighty yet!”: Brutus
50 Where, to Brutus
51 Entreat