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

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20 Pad kee mao pan 21 Huff

22 One of many on Massachusetts Avenue in D.C. 24 __ machine 26 Dappled horses 30 Chat :DVKLQJWRQ·V

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slide, often 34 Treat traditionally paired with RC Cola in the South 35 Like Robert

-RKQVRQ·V PXVLF 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

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DOWN

1 Sanitizes,

perhaps 2 Playwright called “The Father of Realism” 3 Truthfully

4 Dramatic

advance 5 Exploits

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Island

7 Ancient SK\VLFLDQ·V 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

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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 $EEH\·V KXVEDQG on “The West Wing”