LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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

DOWN

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”