LA Times Daily Crossword July 9, 2022 Answers

1. Stock option in a seafood business? 7. Works for literati 14. Rather dense 15. Waterway dividing two sides of a college football rivalry 16. Knesset country 17. Digits in parentheses 18. Isn't quite neutral 19. Signer of the first of the Oslo Accords 20. Pad kee mao pan 21. Huff 22. One of many on Massachusetts Avenue in D.C. 24. __ machine 26. Dappled horses 30. Chat 32. Washington's Grand __ Dam 33. Webinar's first slide, often 34. Treat traditionally paired with RC Cola in the South 35. Like Robert Johnson's music 36. Styling combs 37. Fifth-century bishop in Ire. 38. Tempts 39. Grammar police, e.g. 41. Took off 44. Help for a broken-hearted BFF 47. Some IRAs 48. Bass kin 49. "OK, sure" 51. Ancient Roman province now part of modern 16-Across 52. Diet option in black cans 53. Motorized rides 54. Zen harmony 55. Can't stand

1. Sanitizes, perhaps 2. Playwright called "The Father of Realism" 3. Truthfully 4. Dramatic advance 5. Exploits 6. London's __ Pie Island 7. Ancient physician's reference book 8. Bean sprouts? 9. Bottom-up, in a way 10. "__ sunt dracones": line on an ancient globe 11. Profess 12. Take from the top 13. Long haul 15. Raucous crowd 19. Floor 22. Magazine whose archive was purchased by a consortium that includes the Smithsonian 23. "Bingo" 25. Keep from cracking, perhaps 27. Yellowstone, for one 28. Good name for a knight? 29. Dates 30. Breaks down 31. Unorthodox sect 32. Pigeon holes 34. Trading places 36. Try and reach quickly 38. Shampoo buys 40. Spa wear 42. Hurries toward safety 43. Brown bread 44. Onetime producer of Magna Doodle 45. "Sex on Fire" Grammy winners Kings of __ 46. Candle holder 48. Pyrite crystal, at times 50. Female lobster 51. Abbey's husband on "The West Wing"