LA Times Daily Crossword August 27, 2022 Answers

1. File 8. Go as low as 15. Tightens, say 16. Observation when Porky leaves 17. Ready 18. "I'll do it" 19. Pass with a wave? 20. Up to one's eyeballs 21. "Street Scene" playwright Rice 22. Water line? 23. D.C. United's first home 26. Obscures 28. Belinda Carlisle album with French songs and Irish musicians 30. Corkers 31. Pub freebie 32. Confection that reportedly improves heart health 34. Small tower 35. Lots 36. Companion of Dionysus 37. Fit 38. TY preceder, maybe 39. "Never __ the comments" 40. Scoring instructions 44. Saved for later, in a way 47. One of the Istari, in Middle-earth 48. Tinkerer 50. Disinfectant distilled from needles 51. Humdinger 52. Feature of an assured fit 53. On point 54. Scottish dogs

1. Stopped lying? 2. __ artery 3. Maintain 4. "Bruised" director 5. Party exercise 6. Rather 7. Suffix for records 8. Defeats soundly, in sports slang 9. Pi–ata feature 10. Look that causes discomfort 11. Member of the Siouan family 12. Images on Clemson Tigers merchandise 13. Cook with a lot of Apples? 14. Shout of support 20. "My goose is cooked" 22. Lead-in to draw or hold 24. Furnace part 25. Dennings of "2 Broke Girls" 27. Tear __ 28. Midwinter honorees 29. Grated ingredient in cranberry relish, often 30. MVP of the first two Super Bowls 31. Clown whose voice inspired Krusty of "The Simpsons" 32. Binary 33. Down __ 34. One of six in a fl. oz. 37. "Toss a can my way" 39. City on the Seine 41. Don DeLillo title inspired by an Andy Warhol print series 42. Hold dear 43. Runs without moving 45. Market unit 46. Singer-songwriter Suzanne 47. "Sideways" subject 48. S.A. country bordering five others 49. Novelist Rita __ Brown 50. Sound of a sock