Crossword.

Across

1. Stock market opponents (3 words)

11. Can you dig it?

12. "Go on ..."

13. Chi preceder

15. Bargain description

17. Financing abbr.

18. Greenbacks in 1,000s

19. New Haven locale

20. Where a lot of money passes through (2 words)

27. Canal site

28. Amber, e.g.

29. Kind of hour

30. Decrease in equity position due to additional shares issued

32. Checks for quality

35. Lot

36. Retail location

38. Former backing for the dollar

40. Prefix with profit

41. This, in Paris

42. Advantage

43. Gold mine descriptions (2 words)

48. Map abbr.

49. Start-ups need (2 words)

52. One kind of money

54. Southwestern University, abbr.

55. Subcompact

56. Payments

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Down

1. Rise

2. Big coffee holder

3. Accounting book

4. "Dear" one

5. Easter lead-in

6. Put money on the right horse (3 words)

7. Helm heading

8. Kick in

9. How things are (2 words)

10. Johnny Depp's buddies

14. Type of wire

16. Bailout keyboard key

19. Prefix for mingle

21. Monopoly token

22. Business philosophy of continual improvement

23. Under the weather

24. On the fence

25. Boardroom bigwig

26. Copper coin

31. Excessively

33. Did like the property appraiser

34. Lobbyist target

37. 1973 Supreme Court decision name

38. Washington, e.g., abbr.

39. Rate

41. Add more money to (2 words)

44. Buck

45.--lazuli

46. Time of anticipation

47. Morning show time

50. Name

51. Discouraging words

53. Kitchen pest

55. Portland's state, for short

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