LA TIMES CROSSWORD:
“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 business-building
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,attimes
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 Superhero-themed 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