FRIDAY 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