Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“GETTING AHEAD” By ED SESSA

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 One may be 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 Super hero the med 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 Thus far 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