LA Times Daily Crossword March 25, 2022 Answers

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?

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