Puzzle 309

Across

1. It may scare you

4. Catch some z's

7. Unload, as stock

11. Pervasive emanation

13. Geologic time period

14. Healing plant

15. Awful

16. Lacking color

17. New Mexico county

18. ___Sweet: aspartame

20. Hannibal's challenge

21. Arouse

24. Obote's successor

26. Greek nymph

27. Malibu hue

28. Flavor enhancer, briefly

31. Classic laundry detergent

32. See-through

34. Welcome ___

35. Pro-Second Amendment grp.

38. Region of Asia Minor

39. Afternoon parties

40. With regrets

41. Caen cleric

44. Tear in little pieces

46. “Tomb raider” Croft

47. ___ man (unanimously)

48. Distinctive times

52. Bullring cheers

53. Barking sound

54. Reject as false

55. Prefix with conference

56. Collection

57. Coal container

Down

1. Good, in the 'hood

2. Arles affirmative

3. Bobby of the Bruins

4. Congressman Gingrich

5. Ark landfall

6. Kind of hat

7. Devil

8. Airline to Haifa

9. Cloverleaf feature

10. Not as many

12. Trojan War hero

19. Brought to ruin

21. Fish bait

22. Opera solo

23. Superman alias

25. Cut into

28. Heal

29. Leave port

30. Overcast

33. Really rich

36. Haile Selassie followers

37. No longer sailing along

39. Play the coquette

41. “Thanks ___!”

42. Large bundle

43. Belgian composer Jacques

45. Huck Finn's conveyance

49. Fighter in gray

50. “Wheel of Fortune” request

51. Wd. in Roget's