LA Times Crossword Answers 1 Sep 13, Sunday

CROSSWORD SETTER: Margaret Hannan
THEME: Division of Labor … today’s grid contains several synonyms of “labor” (perhaps in honor of Labor Day on Monday). Each of the synonyms is spelled out with circled letters and is divided into two parts by a black square. The “Division of Labor” words are, going from top-to-bottom:

EFFORT (GOOD GRIEF-FORT BENNING)
JOB (MAZDA NAVAJO-BUBBLEGUM)
STRAIN (UPPER CRUST-RAIN BARREL)
CHORE (DUDE RANCH-OREGON DUCKS)
TOIL (COUCH POTATO-I’LL BE BACK)

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Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
1. Traveling like Columbus ASEA
Christopher Columbus set off on four voyages of exploration from Spain. The initial intent of the expeditions was to establish an ocean link with the Indian subcontinent, by sailing westward. Columbus reached the Americas instead of India, yet insisted on calling the natives “indios”, the Spanish word for “Indians”.

5. Seniors’ advocacy org. AARP
AARP is now the official name for the interest group that used to be called the American Association of Retired Persons. The name change reflects the current focus of the group on all Americans aged 50 or over, as opposed to just people who have retired.

22. Actress Perlman RHEA
Rhea Perlman’s most famous role has to be “Carla Tortelli”, the irascible waitress in the long-running sitcom “Cheers”. Perlman is also a successful children’s author, and has published a series of six books called “Otto Undercover”. She is of course married to Hollywood actor Danny DeVito, and has been so since 1982. I was saddened to hear recently that Perlman and DeVito are splitting up.

23. Brown outburst GOOD GRIEF!
The characters in the cartoon series “Peanuts” were largely drawn from Charles Schultz’s own life, with shy and withdrawn Charlie Brown representing Schultz himself.

24. Georgia military post FORT BENNING
Fort Benning is a US Army facility located outside Columbus, Georgia that has been home to the Army Infantry since 1918.

26. Googling result URL
Internet addresses (like NYTCrossword.com and LAXCrossword.com) are more correctly called Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).

The search engine “Google” was originally called “BackRub” would you believe? The name was eventually changed to Google, an intentional misspelling of the word “googol”. A googol is a pretty big number, 10 to the power of 100. That would be the digit 1 followed by 100 zeros.

27. Defense team: Abbr. ATTS
Attorney (att.)

28. “Twilight” heroine BELLA
The reference is to a character (Bella Swan) in “The Twilight” series of books by Stephenie Meyer. “The Twilight Saga” is a series of films based on the books. “The Twilight” books feature vampires, and I don’t do vampires …

30. Space capsule transition RE-ENTRY
When a spacecraft re-enters the earth’s atmosphere, it compresses the air in front of it creating a tremendous amount of heat. This heated air ionizes and surrounds the vehicle. The ionized air interferes with radio signals leading to the famous spacecraft re-entry communications blackout. This blackout lasted for about 3 minutes for each of the Apollo missions. Famously, the miraculous Apollo 13 spacecraft entered the atmosphere at a much shallower angle than was routine, and the resulting blackout lasted for a nail-biting 6 minutes.

33. Hawker’s talk SPIEL
A spiel is a lengthy speech or argument designed to persuade, like a sales pitch. “Spiel” comes to us from German, either directly (“spiel” is the German for “play”) or via the Yiddish “shpil”.

36. Nobelist Bellow SAUL
Saul Bellow was the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer, and among his most famous works were “Herzog” and “Humboldt’s Gift”.

40. ’90s three-door SUV MAZDA NAVAJO
The Mazda Navajo was a 3-door SUV produced from 1991 to 1994 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Navajo was basically a Ford Explorer Sport with Mazda badge. The Explorer was built by Ford in the same Kentucky factory.

45. Bazooka output BUBBLEGUM
The Bazooka brand of bubble gum was introduced by the Topps Company soon after the end of WWII.

47. Inter __ ALIA
Inter alia means “among other things” in Latin.

48. Toledo title SENOR
Toledo is a city in central Spain.

49. Action film weapons UZIS
The first Uzi submachine gun was designed in the late 1940s by Major Uziel Gal of the Israel Defense Forces who gave his name to the gun.

50. Water container? DIKE
A dike is an embankment usually made of earth and rock that is used to prevent floods.

54. Org. with HQ on Manhattan’s East Side THE UN
The United Nations building is located on “international territory” in New York City in Manhattan, overlooking the East River. The building is sometimes referred to as “Turtle Bay”, as it is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of the city.

57. Big name in escapes HOUDINI
Harry Houdini was the stage name of Hungarian-born escapologist and magician Erik Weisz (later changed to “Harry Weiss”). Many people are under the impression that Houdini died while performing an escape that went wrong, an impression created by the storyline in a couple of movies about his life. The truth is that he died of peritonitis from a burst appendix. It is also true that a few days prior to his death Houdini took a series of punches to his stomach as part of his act, but doctors believe that his appendix would have burst regardless.

60. Glamorous Gardner AVA
Ava Gardner is noted for her association with some big movies, but also for her association with some big names when it came to the men in her life. In the world of film, she appeared in the likes of “Mogambo” (1953), “On the Beach” (1959), “The Night of the Iguana” (1964) and “Earthquake” (1974). The men in her life included husbands Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. After her marriages had failed (and perhaps before!) she had long term relationships with Howard Hughes and bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin whom she met through her friend Ernest Hemingway.

70. Civil rights org. NAACP
The full name of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is remarkable in that it actually still uses the old offensive term “colored people”. The NAACP was founded in 1909, by a group that included suffragette and journalist Mary White Ovington, wealthy socialist William English Walling, and civil rights activist Henry Moscowitz. Another member of the founding group was W. E. B. Du Bois, the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard University.

76. Game on skates DERBY
The sport of roller derby has an international footprint, with almost half the world’s teams being located outside of the US. Most of the teams playing the sport are all-female.

77. Windshield sticker DECAL
A decal is a decorative sticker, short for “decalcomania”. The term is derived from the French “décalquer”, the practice of tracing a pattern from paper onto glass or perhaps porcelain.

79. Head of London? LOO
When I was growing up in Ireland, a “bathroom” was a room that had a bath and no toilet. The separate room with the commode was called “the toilet” or sometimes the W.C. (the water closet). Apparently the term closet was used because in the 1800s when homeowners started installing toilets indoors they often displaced clothes and linens in a “closet”, as a closet was the right size to take the commode. It has been suggested that the British term “loo” comes from Waterloo (water-closet … water-loo), but no one seems to know for sure. Another suggestion is that the term comes from the card game of “lanterloo” in which the pot was called the loo!

In old sailing ships the toilet area for the regular sailors was located in the forward part (the head) of the ship, hence the term “head” that has been used since then for any toilet on board a boat.

81. Western landscape feature MESA
“Mesa” is the Spanish for “table” and is of course is how we get the term “mesa” that describes a geographic feature. “What’s the difference between a butte and a mesa?” I hear you cry! Both are hills with flat tops, but a mesa has a top that is wider than it is tall. A butte is a much narrower formation, taller than it is wide.

84. Zero-spin particle PION
A meson is an unstable subatomic particle, made up of one quark and one antiquark.

“Pion” is short for “pi meson”, and “kaon” is short for “K meson”.

85. Getaway with horses DUDE RANCH
Our term “dude” arose as a slang term in New York City in the 1880s, when it was used to describe a fastidious man. In the early 1900s, the term was extended to mean “city slickers”, Easterners who vacationed in the West. The first use of the term “dude ranch” was recorded in 1921.

87. Washington Huskies rival OREGON DUCKS
The athletic teams of Oregon State University are known as the Beavers. The big rivals to the Beavers are the Ducks of the University of Oregon, a rivalry that has been dubbed “the Civil War”. The two schools’ football teams play a game every year for the Platypus Trophy.

The Huskies are the sports teams of the University of Washington. A student committee chose the husky as the school mascot in 1923, replacing the existing “Sun Dodger”, which was an abstract to the cloudy weather experienced locally.

91. Sony co-founder Morita AKIO
Sony was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka. The two partners met in the Japanese Navy during WWII.

92. Enlistees GIS
The initials “G.I.” stand for “Government Issue” and not “General Infantry” as is often believed. GI was first used in the military to denote equipment made from Galvanized Iron and during WWI, incoming German shells were nicknamed “GI cans”. Soon after, the term GI came to be associated with “Government Issue” and eventually became an adjective to describe anything associated with the Army.

94. Plant tissue XYLEM
Xylem is a vascular tissue in many plants, the function of which is to transport water and some nutrients. It is xylem tissue that makes up what we know as wood.

96. Cover used during zapping SARAN
What’s known as plastic wrap in America, we call cling-film in Ireland. Plastic wrap was one of those unintended inventions, a byproduct of a development program to create a hard plastic cover for cars.

99. “Gerontion” poet TS ELIOT
“Gerontion” is a poem by T. S. Eliot, published in 1920.

T. S. Eliot was born in New England but grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Much of his college education was at Oxford, and clearly he became comfortable with life in England. In 1927 he became a British citizen, and lived the rest of life in the UK.

107. Sgt. or cpl. NCO
An NCO is a non-commissioned officer in the armed forces. Usually such an officer is one who has earned his or her rank by promotion through the enlisted ranks. A good example would be a sergeant.

110. Arnold’s catchphrase I’LL BE BACK
The 1984 movie “The Terminator” was directed by James Cameron and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a relatively low budget production, costing $6.4 million. It has grossed around $80 million to date, so no wonder the Terminator “came back”.

112. Verdant LUSH
Back in the late 1500s, “verdant” simply meant “green”, but we now tend to use the term to mean green and lush with vegetation. “Viridis” is the Latin for “green”.

117. “CSI” actress Helgenberger MARG
Marg Helgenberger is an actress best known for roles she plays on television. Helgenberger currently plays investigator Catherine Willows on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”. She also played drug-addicted prostitute K.C. Koloski in the Vietnam War drama “China Beach”.

Down
1. Soothsayer AUGUR
The verb “to augur” means “to bode”, to serve as an omen. The term comes from the name of religious officials in Ancient Rome called augurs whose job it was to interpret signs and omens.

3. Nice school ECOLE
In French, one might learn a lesson (une leçon) in a school (une école).

The city of Nice lies on the Mediterranean coast of France, not far from the Italian border. Although it is only the fifth most populous city, Nice has the second busiest airport in the country (after Paris) thanks to the vast number of jet-setting tourists that flock to the French Riviera.

4. City council rep. ALD
The term “alderman” comes from English law, and is used for a member of a municipal assembly or council. In some locations in the US some cities have a Board of Aldermen instead of a city council.

5. Dallas-based budget carrier AIRTRAN
AirTran is a budget airline that has its principal hub in Atlanta. AirTran’s secondary hubs are in Baltimore-Washington, Milwaukee and Orlando. AirTran has been owned by Southwest Airlines since 2010.

7. Welsh actor Roger REES
Roger Rees is a Welsh actor. Rees played the character Robin Colcord on “Cheers”, the posh love interest for Rebecca Howe played by Kirstie Alley.

8. Adobe format PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format introduced by Adobe Systems in 1993. PDF documents can be shared between users and read using many different applications, making them more universally accessible than documents saved by one particular program.

12. Venus’s org. USTA
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national organization governing the sport of tennis in the US.

Venus Williams is the older of the two Williams sisters playing professional tennis. In 2002, Williams became the first black woman to earn the World No. 1 ranking by the Women’s Tennis Association.

14. Stout servers BREWPUBS
The term “stout” was first used for a type of beer in the 1600s when was used to describe a “strong, stout” brew, and not necessarily a dark beer as it is today.

15. Onetime rival of Jack and Gary ARNIE
Arnold Palmer is one of the greats of the world of golf. Palmer is very popular with many fans of the game, and his followers are usually referred to as “Arnie’s Army”.

18. Palm tree starch SAGO
When I was growing up in Ireland I was very familiar with pearl sago, which is very similar to pearl tapioca. Pearls of sago are simply little balls of sago starch used to make breads, pancakes, biscuits, or the steamed puddings that we ate as kids. Sago comes from pith of the sago palm tree. To get at the starch the tree has to be cut down and the trunk split to reveal the pith. The pith is crushed and manipulated to make the starch available, which is then washed out of a fibrous suspension. One sago palm tree yields about 150-300 kg of starch. Personally I love the stuff, but then, I am a bit weird …

20. First name in whodunits AGATHA
Not only did Agatha Christie write a fabulous collection of murder-mystery stories, she also wrote romances, but under the pen name Mary Westmacott. I’ve read almost all of Christie’s 66 detective novels, but I must admit, not one of her romance novels.

25. Sam who played Merlin in “Merlin” NEILL
Sam Neill is a very talented actor from New Zealand. I really enjoyed Neill in a 1983 television miniseries about a British spy operation during WWI. He is perhaps better-known for his roles in the movies “Omen III”, “Dead Calm”, “Jurassic Park” and “The Hunt for Red October”.

28. It has strings attached BANJO
The instrument that we know today as the banjo is a derivative of instruments that were used in Africa.

31. Nothin’ NADA
“Nada” is the Spanish word for “nothing”. “De nada” translates literally from the Spanish as “of nothing”, and is used to mean “you’re welcome” or “don’t mention it”. The French have the same expression “de rien”, also translating to “of nothing” and used the same way.

32. Cliburn’s instrument PIANO
Van Cliburn is a classical pianist from Shreveport, Louisiana. Cliburn became famous in the late fifties when he won the prestigious International Piano Competition held in Moscow. This win was of particular interest to the public, as an American winning something in the USSR was big news in the days of the Cold War.

33. Oral polio vaccine developer SABIN
Albert Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine. Sabin’s vaccine was a “live” controlled vaccine. The equally famous Salk vaccine was a “killed” vaccine.

35. Cinematographer Nykvist SVEN
Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist won two Academy Awards and is best known for his work with Ingmar Bergman. In fact, his Oscars came for his contribution to two Bergman films, “Cries and Whispers” and “Fanny and Alexander”.

36. Ichiro of baseball SUZUKI
Ichiro Suzuki plays baseball for the New York Yankees. Suzuki holds quite a few batting records including the single-season record for base hits (262). Ichiro Suzuki is a huge celebrity in his native-Japan. His agent says that if you address fan mail to “Ichiro Suzuki, Japan”, he’ll get your letter …

39. Barrie pirate SMEE
In J. M. Barrie’s play and novel about Peter Pan, Smee is one of Captain Hook’s pirates and is Hook’s right-hand man. Smee is described by Barrie as being “Irish” and “a man who stabbed without offence”. Nice guy! Captain Hook and Smee sail on the pirate ship called the Jolly Roger.

40. __ Picchu MACHU
Machu Picchu is known as “The Lost City of the Incas”, and it can be visited on a mountain ridge in Peru, 50 miles northwest of the city of Cuzco in the southeast of the country. The name Machu Picchu means “old peak”.

44. Surg. specialty ORTH
Orthopedics is the branch of surgery that deals with the musculoskeletal system. The term “orthopedics” was coined in 1741 by French physician Nicolas Andry. Actually, Andry used the French term “Orthopédie” for the title of a book. The term comes from the Greek “orthos” meaning “straight” and “paidon” meaning “child”.

45. Lake __ Vista BUENA
Lake Buena Vista is the Florida city that is home to Walt Disney World. The city takes its name from Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California, which is home to Disney’s main studio.

46. __ Bear, original name of Winnie-the-Pooh EDWARD
Alan Alexander (A.A.) Milne was an English author, best known for his delightful “Winnie-the-Pooh” series of books. He had only one son, Christopher Robin Milne, born in 1920. The young Milne was the inspiration for the Christopher Robin character in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Christopher Robin’s real teddy bear, one he called Winnie, who in turn was named after a Canadian black bear called Winnie that the Milnes would visit in London Zoo. The original Winnie teddy bear is on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York.

55. Source of a Marxian nickname HARP
Harpo Marx was the second oldest of the Marx brothers. Harpo’s real name was Adolph, and he earned his nickname because he played the harp. Famously he didn’t speak on screen, a routine he developed after reading a review that he performed really well when he just didn’t speak!

60. “SOS” singers ABBA
I am an unapologetic fan of ABBA’s music. ABBA was of course the Swedish group who topped the charts in the seventies and eighties. The name ABBA is an acronym formed from the first letters of the given names of each of the band members, namely: Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid.

62. World Heritage Site org. UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is better known by the acronym “UNESCO”. UNESCO’s mission is help build peace in the world using programs focused on education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. The organization’s work is aimed in particular at Africa, and gender equalization.

63. Immortal actress Bernhardt SARAH
Sarah Bernhardt was a courtesan turned actress from Paris who became perhaps the most famous actress of her day. Bernhardt was dedicated to her art. Sometimes she actually slept in a coffin instead of a bed, so that she could understand her tragic roles.

65. Salsa holder NACHO
The dish known as “nachos” were supposedly created by the maître d’ at a restaurant called the Victory Club in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. The maître d’’s name was Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya.

“Salsa” is simply the Spanish for “sauce”.

67. Nook download E-BOOK
The Barnes & Noble electronic-book reader is called the Nook. The Nook accounts for 10-15% of electronic book readers in the world.

68. City north of Marseilles LYONS
The city of Lyon in France, is also known as “Lyons” in English.

71. Plasm lead-in CYTO-
The word “protoplasm” comes from the Greek, meaning first (protos) thing formed (plasma). It is the name given to the cell contents, everything that is surrounded by the plasma membrane. The protoplasm in most cells is divided into two parts, the cytoplasm which surrounds the nucleus, and the nucleoplasm found within the nucleus.

76. Jean-etic material? DENIM
Denim fabric originated in Nimes in France. The French phrase “de Nimes” (from Nimes) gives us the word “denim”. Also, the French phrase “bleu de Genes” (blue of Genoa) gives us our word “jeans”.

83. Bach’s instrument ORGAN
Johann Sebastian Bach raised a very large family. He had seven children with his first wife, who died suddenly. He had a further thirteen children with his second wife. Of his twenty youngsters, there were four sons who became famous musicians in their own right:

– Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (aka “the Halle Bach”)
– Carl Philipp Bach (aka “the Hamburg Bach”)
– Johann Christoph Bach (aka “the Buckeberg Bach”)
– Johann Christian Bach (aka “the London Bach”)

86. Friend of Potsie in “Happy Days” RALPH
“Happy Days” is a hilarious ABC show that aired originally for ten years starting in 1974. The show was so successful that it spawned a three spin-offs: “Laverne & Shirley”, “Mork & Mindy”, and “Joanie Loves Chachi”. And, there is even a stage musical version of the show.

95. America’s Cup entry YACHT
The America’s Cup is a trophy that has been awarded for yacht racing since 1851. It was first presented to the winner of a race around the Isle of Wight in England that was won by a schooner called “America”. The trophy was eventually renamed to “the America’s Cup” in honor of that first race winner.

97. UnitedHealthcare rival AETNA
When the health care management and insurance company known as Aetna was founded, the name was chosen to evoke images of Mt. Etna, the European volcano.

99. First president who wasn’t elected TYLER
John Tyler was the tenth President of the US, and the first to take the office on the death of the incumbent. Tyler’s predecessor was President William Henry Harrison, who was in office only 32 days before he died of natural causes. For a while there was a little confusion about the wording in the constitution that covered such an eventuality. There was an argument made that Tyler would continue as Vice-President but would assume the responsibilities of the office of President, in effect as “Acting President”. However, Tyler proceeded as though he was taking over as President and took the oath of office in his hotel room in Washington. Soon afterwards, Congress declared that Tyler was indeed President, although many continued to dispute the fact. Many of President Tyler’s opponents referred to him as “His Accidency”.

101. Eponymous William’s birthplace OCCAM
Ockham’s Razor (also Occam’s Razor) is a principle in philosophy and science that basically states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. This explanation is a corollary to the more exact statement of the principle, that one shouldn’t needlessly use assumptions in explaining something. The principle was developed by 14th-century logician and Franciscan Friar William of Ockham (or “Occam” in Latin). The principle is dubbed a “razor” as it is used as a philosophical tool used to cut out absurd and spurious reasoning in an argument.

105. Plains people OTOS
The Otoe (also Oto) Native American tribe originated in the Great Lakes region as part of the Winnebago or Siouan tribes. The group that would become the Otoe broke away from the Winnebago and migrated southwestwards ending up in the Great Plains. In the plains the Otoe adopted a semi-nomadic lifestyle dependent on the horse, with the American bison becoming central to their diet.

106. Mont. neighbor ALTA
Alberta is one of Canada’s largest provinces, and is about the size of Texas. Alberta is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Princess Louise also donated her name to Lake Louise, the large glacial lake in the province that lies within the bounds of today’s Banff National Park.

109. Wordsworth work ODE
The great English poet William Wordsworth lived in the Lake District in the north of England, a beautiful part of the country. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit Dove Cottage in Grasmere a couple of times, where Wordsworth lived with his wife Dorothy.

111. Emeril catchword BAM!
Emeril Lagasse is an American chef, born in Massachusetts. Lagasse first achieved notoriety as executive chef in Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. Now famous for his television shows, his cuisine still showcases New Orleans ingredients and influences. Lagasse started using his famous “Bam!” catchphrase in order to keep his crew awake during repeated tapings of his show.

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Traveling like Columbus ASEA
5. Seniors’ advocacy org. AARP
9. Many a commuter’s home SUBURB
15. Beltmaking tools AWLS
19. Still at the lost and found UNCLAIMED
21. One who overdoes a privilege ABUSER
22. Actress Perlman RHEA
23. Brown outburst GOOD GRIEF!
24. Georgia military post FORT BENNING
26. Googling result URL
27. Defense team: Abbr. ATTS
28. “Twilight” heroine BELLA
29. Kook WEIRDO
30. Space capsule transition RE-ENTRY
32. It may be a surprise PARTY
33. Hawker’s talk SPIEL
34. __ moment AHA
35. Moral misstep SIN
36. Nobelist Bellow SAUL
37. Airport security requests IDS
40. ’90s three-door SUV MAZDA NAVAJO
45. Bazooka output BUBBLEGUM
47. Inter __ ALIA
48. Toledo title SENOR
49. Action film weapons UZIS
50. Water container? DIKE
51. Good __/bad __: interrogation method COP
52. Thanks/thanks link BUT NO
54. Org. with HQ on Manhattan’s East Side THE UN
56. “Bummer” AW GEE
57. Big name in escapes HOUDINI
59. Lamb cut SHANK
60. Glamorous Gardner AVA
61. High class UPPER CRUST
64. Runoff collector RAIN BARREL
69. Storage media, briefly CDS
70. Civil rights org. NAACP
72. Follow ABIDE BY
73. Groundwork BASIS
76. Game on skates DERBY
77. Windshield sticker DECAL
79. Head of London? LOO
80. “I say!” EGAD!
81. Western landscape feature MESA
82. Like some luck TOUGH
84. Zero-spin particle PION
85. Getaway with horses DUDE RANCH
87. Washington Huskies rival OREGON DUCKS
90. Match, as a bet SEE
91. Sony co-founder Morita AKIO
92. Enlistees GIS
93. Oklahoma resource OIL
94. Plant tissue XYLEM
96. Cover used during zapping SARAN
99. “Gerontion” poet TS ELIOT
103. Opens, as a beer UNCAPS
105. Required situation for a two-run homer ONE ON
106. Roll call replies AYES
107. Sgt. or cpl. NCO
108. Frequent button-presser COUCH POTATO
110. Arnold’s catchphrase I’LL BE BACK
112. Verdant LUSH
113. Decks out ADORNS
114. Sneak out STEAL AWAY
115. “I’d hate to break up __” A SET
116. Accommodate, in a way, as a restaurant patron RESEAT
117. “CSI” actress Helgenberger MARG
118. Sticky Note, e.g. MEMO

Down
1. Soothsayer AUGUR
2. Nocturnal noise SNORE
3. Nice school ECOLE
4. City council rep. ALD
5. Dallas-based budget carrier AIRTRAN
6. Accord AMITY
7. Welsh actor Roger REES
8. Adobe format PDF
9. More conservative, investment-wise SAFER
10. Horseshoe-shaped hardware item U-BOLT
11. Thickset BURLY
12. Venus’s org. USTA
13. Gray REB
14. Stout servers BREWPUBS
15. Onetime rival of Jack and Gary ARNIE
16. Pinwheel WHIRLIGIG
17. Advance LEND
18. Palm tree starch SAGO
20. First name in whodunits AGATHA
25. Sam who played Merlin in “Merlin” NEILL
28. It has strings attached BANJO
31. Nothin’ NADA
32. Cliburn’s instrument PIANO
33. Oral polio vaccine developer SABIN
35. Cinematographer Nykvist SVEN
36. Ichiro of baseball SUZUKI
38. British nobleman DUKE
39. Barrie pirate SMEE
40. __ Picchu MACHU
41. Knock for __ A LOOP
42. Mom’s winter morning reminder ZIP UP
43. Up and about ASTIR
44. Surg. specialty ORTH
45. Lake __ Vista BUENA
46. __ Bear, original name of Winnie-the-Pooh EDWARD
52. Bath visitors BIRDS
53. Members of the fam UNCS
55. Source of a Marxian nickname HARP
56. Be helpful to AVAIL
58. Rule DECIDE
59. You might take one before giving up STAB
60. “SOS” singers ABBA
62. World Heritage Site org. UNESCO
63. Immortal actress Bernhardt SARAH
65. Salsa holder NACHO
66. Museum item RELIC
67. Nook download E-BOOK
68. City north of Marseilles LYONS
71. Plasm lead-in CYTO-
73. Hospital count BEDS
74. Chills and fever AGUE
75. Lousy example SAD EXCUSE
76. Jean-etic material? DENIM
77. Expected to arrive DUE IN
78. Breakfast staple EGGS
81. Matches the scorecard, so to speak MAKES PAR
83. Bach’s instrument ORGAN
84. Clout PULL
86. Friend of Potsie in “Happy Days” RALPH
88. Steed feeder NOSEBAG
89. Semi filler DIESEL
95. America’s Cup entry YACHT
96. It’s a trap SNARE
97. UnitedHealthcare rival AETNA
98. High bar ROOST
99. First president who wasn’t elected TYLER
100. Amazed IN AWE
101. Eponymous William’s birthplace OCCAM
102. Capital east of Seoul TOKYO
103. Campus south of Sunset Blvd. UCLA
104. We, to Henri NOUS
105. Plains people OTOS
106. Mont. neighbor ALTA
109. Wordsworth work ODE
110. Philosophy ISM
111. Emeril catchword BAM!

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