DAILY 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