ACROSS
  • 1. ACLU concern
  • 7. Mythical underwater creature
  • 13. Clear charges
  • 14. Rub away
  • 15. Kind of figure
  • 16. Samples
  • 17. “Pick one”
  • 18. Good looking
  • 20. Letter run
  • 21. Bruin Phil, familiarly
  • 23. Canada’s smallest prov.
  • 24. Nibble
  • 25. Singer Lisa, et al.
  • 27. Copied
  • 29. Explorer Cartier or Cousteau
  • 31. “Million Man March Poem” poet
  • 34. Swore
  • 38. Castle protection
  • 39. Term start?
  • 41. Number 100 of Bravo’s 100 Greatest TV Characters
  • 42. Rock producer Brian
  • 43. Carmen composer
  • 45. R&B singer Cantrell
  • 46. French novelist Honore de ___
  • 48. Jail
  • 50. Colored ring
  • 51. Upstage onstage
  • 52. Walk in the park?
  • 53. Annual event involving skateboarding
DOWN
  • 1. Convicted steroid user Palmeiro
  • 2. “Just watch me!”
  • 3. Stylish metrosexual, say
  • 4. “Say what?”
  • 5. Going into overtime
  • 6. Get Fuzzy, for one
  • 7. French film director ___ Kassovitz
  • 8. Online auction site
  • 9. Monopoly properties, in short
  • 10. Grid
  • 11. Carol’s beginning
  • 12. Settled in
  • 19. Cosmo feature
  • 22. ___ d’art
  • 24. Fever Pitch team, slangily
  • 26. Erie Canal mule
  • 28. Gun, as an engine
  • 30. Entertaining
  • 31. Slide show subjects, var.
  • 32. Senseless drawings
  • 33. Tower of London figure
  • 35. Online chat requirement
  • 36. Intertwine
  • 37. Intimidates
  • 40. Check into rehab, say
  • 43. Formal dance
  • 44. Brute
  • 47. Animal house?
  • 49. Greek letter