L.A. CROSSWORD "GETTING AHEAD"
ACROSS
1 Unstressed, as a syllable 7 Painter of melting watches 11 iPhone purchase 14 A deadly sin
18 It’s split in a boat 19 Command to a junkyard dog 20 Early internet pioneer
21 Not fooled by 22 *Online businessbuilding method 24 Common Woody Allen character disorders
26 Send back, as into custody
27 *Las Vegas pros 29 Iraq’s main port 33 In the past
34 Comic actor Amsterdam of old TV
35 “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail” writer
36 Call into question 38 Features of academic gowns 40 Less lax
41 St. Patrick’s land 42 F equivalent
45 Like radon, say 47 “Norma __” 48 *Guinness entries
51 Pre-flight frisking gp. 54 Onemaybe played with sticks or brushes 56 Misplay with matches?
57 Hawkish god 58 Composer Milhaud 59 Hard-to-meet condition
61 Apple browser 63 Former Bears coach
65 Satan
68 Tips, as a hat 69 Minerva’s Greek counterpart
71 Smith, at times 72 End in grand style 74 Baseball’s Speaker 75 1970 Neil
Diamond hit 77 Deactivating 80 Author Rand 81 *User’s nightmare 84 Company VIP
85 Prom attendees 86 Out of class
87 Open a bit
88 Muted to the max 91 Bill’s attorney general
93 Remove by melting, say 95 Pungent green 96 Indelicate
98 Friend of TV’s Sheldon
101 “__ World”: “Sesame Street” segment
102 *Zapping direction 104 Seasonal song words after
“gay apparel” 106 Superherothemed kids’ wear 107 *Nine-to-fiver 113 Future viewer
114 See 103-Down 115 Main blood vessel 116 Manly
117 Nine-digit IDs 118 “Psst!”
119 Visual okays
120 Tinier than tiny
DOWN
1 Easy comparative 2 Paving material 3 Strawberry Fields benefactor
4 Rural turndown 5 Like some “La Cage Aux Folles” dancers 6 Rick’s, in film 7 Followed a Hippocratic dictum 8 Corrosive stuff 9 Novelist Deighton 10 “No more for me” 11 Docudramas airer 12 35-Across output 13 Choice
14 Observation point 15 Not yet posted 16 “Tristram Shandy” author
17 Salad preparer
19 Reel trouble
23 Actress Thurman 25 Navigation aids 28 “Frasier” bros., e.g. 29 Transvaal settlers
30 Like lives in hives 31 *Overextended 32 Have remorse for 34 Cleaning tools 37 “__ say more?” 39 Chicago airport code
40 Beach divers 43 Clean with S.O.S 44 Provides home care services? 45 “There’s no use” 46 New start? 48 Played again on TV 49 Hankering
50 Windy City newspaper, for short
51 *Where one might idle away the time? 52 Feudal worker
53 Sale stipulation 55 Tools with tines
57 CIO partner, familiarly
59 Bud’s promise 60 Suffix often meaning
“to make”
62 Acrobat maker 63 Facts and figures 64 Modest admission 66 Jennifer of “Zero Dark Thirty”
67 Deck crew boss 70 Thusfar
73 Medicare component
76 QVC sister station 77 Draws attention (from)
78 “Terrif!”
79 Injures, as a matador
81 Motion detector, e.g.
82 Cheerful group? 83 Debater of Stephen in 1858 85 Marketing hirees
87 Tide competitor 88 Speedy ski run 89 Dunne and Ryan of cinema 90 Plodding
91 Sporty wheels, briefly
92 Art movement typified by Sloan’s “McSorley’s Bar” 94 Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue 96 After-school job 97 Not without danger
99 __-Seltzer
100 Hinged mouth part
103 114-Across builder
104 Shallow crossing
105 Kilauea flow 108 Canterbury can
109 Vel follower
110 “Tell __”: Streisand/Dion duet
111 Yalie
112 Remote button