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DAILY CROSSWORD

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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 brokenhear­ted 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”

 ?? By Kyle Dolan ©2022 Tribune Content Agency ?? 7/9/22
By Kyle Dolan ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 7/9/22

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