Crossword Answers For: Saturday, July 9, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Stock option in a seafood business? => BISQUE
7 Across: Works for literati => HIGHART
14 Across: Rather dense => OBTUSE
15 Across: Waterway dividing two sides of a college football rivalry => REDRIVER
16 Across: Knesset country => ISRAEL
17 Across: Digits in parentheses => AREACODE
18 Across: Isn't quite neutral => LEANS
19 Across: Signer of the first of the Oslo Accords => ABBAS
20 Across: Pad kee mao pan => WOK
21 Across: Huff => SNIT
22 Across: One of many on Massachusetts Avenue in D.C. => EMBASSY
24 Across: __ machine => GUMBALL
26 Across: Dappled horses => ROANS
30 Across: Chat => SCHMOOZE
32 Across: Washington's Grand __ Dam => COULEE
33 Across: Webinar's first slide, often => OUTLINE
34 Across: Treat traditionally paired with RC Cola in the South => MOONPIE
35 Across: Like Robert Johnson's music => BLUESY
36 Across: Styling combs => RATTAILS
37 Across: Fifth-century bishop in Ire. => STPAT
38 Across: Tempts => LURESIN
39 Across: Grammar police, e.g. => PURISTS
41 Across: Took off => LEFT
44 Across: Help for a broken-hearted BFF => TLC
47 Across: Some IRAs => ROTHS
48 Across: Bass kin => CELLO
49 Across: OK, sure => YEAHIBET
51 Across: Ancient Roman province now part of modern 16-Across => JUDAEA
52 Across: Diet option in black cans => COKEZERO
53 Across: Motorized rides => EBIKES
54 Across: Zen harmony => ONENESS
55 Across: Can't stand => DETEST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sanitizes, perhaps => BOILS
2 Down: Playwright called The Father of Realism => IBSEN
3 Down: Truthfully => STRAIGHTUP
4 Down: Dramatic advance => QUANTUMLEAP
5 Down: Exploits => USES
6 Down: London's __ Pie Island => EEL
7 Down: Ancient physician's reference book => HERBAL
8 Down: Bean sprouts? => IDEAS
9 Down: Bottom-up, in a way => GRASSROOTS
10 Down: __ sunt dracones: line on an ancient globe => HIC
11 Down: Profess => AVOW
12 Down: Take from the top => REDO
13 Down: Long haul => TREK
15 Down: Raucous crowd => RABBLE
19 Down: Floor => AMAZE
22 Down: Magazine whose archive was purchased by a consortium that includes the Smithsonian => EBONY
23 Down: Bingo => YOUNAILEDIT
25 Down: Keep from cracking, perhaps => MOISTURIZE
27 Down: Yellowstone, for one => ALPINELAKE
28 Down: Good name for a knight? => NEIL
29 Down: Dates => SEES
30 Down: Breaks down => SOBS
31 Down: Unorthodox sect => CULT
32 Down: Pigeon holes => COTES
34 Down: Trading places => MARTS
36 Down: Try and reach quickly => RUSHTO
38 Down: Shampoo buys => LITERS
40 Down: Spa wear => ROBES
42 Down: Hurries toward safety => FLEES
43 Down: Brown bread => TOAST
44 Down: Onetime producer of Magna Doodle => TYCO
45 Down: Sex on Fire Grammy winners Kings of __ => LEON
46 Down: Candle holder => CAKE
48 Down: Pyrite crystal, at times => CUBE
50 Down: Female lobster => HEN
51 Down: Abbey's husband on The West Wing => JED

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 37 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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