DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Dangerous Beijing blanket
5 Many an online host
14 Unladen weight
15 Ephemeral emporium
16 Biblical Rodin
work 17 Phenomenal
18 Business card abbr. 19 Honduran hands
20 Filing aids
21 May birthstones
23 Not as nice
24 Pay equity concern
25 Word with social or media
27 Muse with a lyre
28 Classical theaters
29 Brit’s nap
32 Georgia neighbor
34 Its capital is St. George’s
37 Lille lily
38 Ostrichlike bird
40 Industrial heavyweight
41 Deplete
43 Economic curve
44 Brief aides?
46 Precursor of today’s musical theater
48 Mackerel type
49 Make short work of the test
50 Subside
51 “Point taken” 53 Woody Guthrie, e.g.
54 Like some feuds 55 Brief bio
56 Ergo
57 River partly on the Poland-Germany border
DOWN
1 Washington’s features George
2 Partied hearty
3 Deterrents to ghostwriting
4 Treasure
5 Hammer
6 Not in favor
7 Some charges
8 ER technique
9 He played Michael in “That ’70s Show”
10 Mary, Queen of Scots’ house
11 Some memorials
12 Wipe out
13 __ Zhengfei, CEO/founder of smartphone giant Huawei
15 Church reading
19 Cement mixer
22 Liturgy
23 Grate (on)
26 Lyra’s brightest star
28 Home to most of Hawaii’s population
29 Mr. Miyagi’s charge, with “The”
30 “It’s ok, you can trust me”
31 Black-and-white Chinese native
33 More than displeases
35 Pulitzer Prizewinning critic 36 Title
39 Earth-shattering
41 Person of interest?
42 “Father of Eng. History”
43 Exalted one
44 Smarts
45 Superheroine Adora, more commonly
47 Rush drummer Neil
49 Alaskan island in the Eastern Hemisphere
51 Lil Wayne’s “__ Block Is Hot”
52 Household nickname
53 Ab __: from day one