LA Times Crossword Answers 4 Jan 15, Sunday

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CROSSWORD SETTER: Marilyn Lieb
THEME: Single-Minded … each of today’s themed answers is a common word or phrase, but with a double-letter sequence turned into a SINGLE letter:

23A. Manicurist’s work area? FILING STATION (from “filling station”)
27A. Jilted “dear” lover who hasn’t given up? HOPING JOHN (from “Hopping John”)
50A. Grand Canal? POLING PLACE (from “polling place”)
66A. Providing extra digital support? TOE TAPING (from “toe tapping”)
84A. Finding a home for an Anaheim team? SITING DUCKS (from “sitting ducks”)
105A. Making hay when the sun doesn’t shine? SNOW BALING (from “snowballing”)
112A. Furniture-weaving facility? CANING FACTORY (from “canning factory”)
31D. Regally dressing aristocrats? ROBING THE RICH (from “robbing the rich”)
35D. Making a patio out of a garden? TILING THE SOIL (from “tilling the soil”)

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13. Tab BAR BILL
When we “run a tab” at a bar say, we are “running a tabulation”, a listing of what we owe. Such a use of “tab” is American slang that originated in the 1880s.

21. In __ land LA-LA
La-la land is a euphemism for a state of unconsciousness.

27. Jilted “dear” lover who hasn’t given up? HOPING JOHN (from “Hopping John”)
Hoppin’ John is a dish from the American South in which the main ingredients are black-eyed peas, rice, onion and bacon. There is a tradition that eating a bowl of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day will bring luck. Any Hoppin’ John that is left over after New Year’s Day is renamed to Skippin’ Jenny. The dish seems to have originated in the mid-1800s, when it was first called “Hopping John”.

34. Kachina doll maker HOPI
Kachina dolls are wooden figures representing various Hopi spirits and deities. Traditionally, Kachina dolls were made by men and then passed on to the daughters of the village in a ceremony feting a particular spirit.

35. Parlor design, perhaps TAT
Tattoo (tat)

38. “Cupid” singer Sam COOKE
Sam Cooke was a soul singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Cooke is considered by many to have been one of the founders of the soul genre. Cooke’s impressive list of hits includes “You Send Me”, Chain Gang” and “Twistin’ the Night Away”. Cooke was only 33 years old when he died. He was shot after a drunken brawl by a motel manager in what was deemed by the courts to be a justifiable homicide.

39. Belittle DIS
“Dis” is a slang term meaning “insult” that originated in the eighties, and is a shortened form of “disrespect” or “dismiss”.

43. How deadpan humor is delivered DRILY
The term “deadpan”, slang for an impassive expression, comes from “dead” (expressionless) and “pan” (slang for “face”).

48. Reiki practitioner HEALER
The Japanese practice of hands-on healing called “Reiki” was developed Mikao Usui in 1922. “Reiki” is a Japanese term meaning “universal energy”. Practitioners of Reiki believe that they are transferring this universal energy through the palms of the hand into the patient’s body.

50. Grand Canal? POLING PLACE (from “polling place”)
The Grand Canal is a large, S-shaped canal that traverses the city of Venice in Italy. For centuries there was only one bridge across the canal, the famed Rialto Bridge. Now there are four bridges in all, including a controversial structure that was opened to the public in 2008, the Ponte della Costituzione.

55. Smoker’s buy: Abbr. CTN
Carton (ctn.)

57. Cyberguffaw LOL
Laugh out loud (LOL)

58. Flowers in pens? INKS
Ink flows in pens.

59. Figures on a rink EIGHTS
Figure skating started out as a sport in which a skater demonstrated skill at carving out specific patterns into the ice (a figure-8, for example). Over time, the sport placed greater influence on free skating. Compulsory figures were dropped completely from most international competitions in the 1990, but the name “figure skating” has been retained.

61. Understanding KEN
“Ken” is a noun meaning “understanding, perception”. One might say, for example, “half the clues in today’s crossword are beyond my ken, beyond my understanding”.

65. Platte River tribe OTOE
The Platte River used to be called the Nebrakier, which is an Oto word meaning “flat river”. Indeed, the state of Nebraska takes its name from “Nebrakier”. For a while it was also called the River Plate as “plate” is the French word “flat”. Later this became “Platte”, the phonetic spelling of the French “plate”.

71. Conserve HUSBAND
“To husband” is to manage carefully and frugally.

73. Marine eagle ERN
The ern (also erne) is also called the white-tailed eagle, and the sea-eagle.

74. Book read during the Jewish holiday Purim ESTHER
Purim is a festival commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to wipe them out by Haman the Agagite, as recorded in the Book of Esther. During the celebration of Purim, the Book of Esther (or Megillah) is read aloud, once in the evening and once the following morning. By the way, Esther is the only book in the Old Testament that doesn’t mention the word “God”.

78. Yale alum ELI
Eli is the nickname for a graduate of Yale University, a term used in honor of the Yale benefactor Elihu Yale.

82. Lac filler EAU
In French, one can find water (eau) in a lake (lac).

83. Dean’s “Lois & Clark” co-star TERI
Teri Hatcher’s most famous role these days is the Susan Mayer character in “Desperate Housewives”. I’ve never seen more than a few minutes of “Housewives” but I do know Teri Hatcher as a Bond girl, as she appeared in “Tomorrow Never Dies”.

“Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” is a television show that aired originally from 1993 to 1997. The storyline focuses as much on the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane as it does on Kent’s life as Superman. Clark and Lois are played by Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher.

84. Finding a home for an Anaheim team? SITING DUCKS (from “sitting ducks”)
The Walt Disney Company founded the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim hockey team in 1993, with the franchise’s name being a nod to the 1992 Disney movie called “The Mighty Ducks”. The name was changed to the Anaheim Ducks when Disney sold the team before the 2006-2007 season.

88. Grounded fleet SSTS
The most famous supersonic transport (SST) is the retired Concorde. Famously, the Concorde routinely broke the sound barrier, and cruised at about twice the speed of sound. Above Mach 2, frictional heat would cause the plane’s aluminum airframe to soften, so airspeed was limited.

94. Rhodes with a scholarship CECIL
Cecil Rhodes (famous in America as the founder of the Rhodes Scholarship), was a very successful English businessman and South African politician. He founded the De Beers diamond mining company, and also founded the state of Rhodesia which was named after him. The British colony gained its independence over time in the latter half of the 20th century, and is known today as the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Rhodesian capital of Salisbury was renamed in 1982 to Harare, the current capital of Zimbabwe.

97. French possessive SES
“Ses” is the French word for “his”, “her” or “its”, when referring to a group of items.

98. Scenically patterned fabric TOILE
Toile fabric can be used as upholstery, or as a wallpaper, or even as a fabric for clothing.

99. Utility co. unit KWH
The kilowatt hour (kWh) is a unit of energy, made up of the product of power (kilowatts – kW) and time (hour – h). We see “kWh” all the time, on our electricity bills.

100. College town east of Greensboro ELON
Elon is a city in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, close to the city of Burlington. Elon University is a private liberal arts school founded in 1889.

The North Carolina city of Greensboro was founded in 1808 as Greensborough, with the spelling changing in 1895. The city was named for Major General Nathanael Greene who commanded the defeated American forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House during the Revolutionary War. Although technically a defeat, Greene’s forces inflicted such heavy casualties on the British Army, led by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, that the outcome was a strategic victory for the Americans.

108. Asian-American actor Philip known for war movie roles AHN
The actor Philip Ahn is perhaps best known for playing Master Kahn, one of Caine’s teachers on the television show “Kung Fu”. Ahn was the first Asian-American actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

118. London locale ONTARIO
The city of London, Ontario lies about halfway between Detroit, Michigan and Toronto, Ontario. Just like the city’s better-known namesake in England, Canada’s London is located on a river called the Thames.

119. Bilko’s mil. rank MSGT
Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko was played by Phil Silvers in his TV show that aired in the fifties. “The Phil Silvers Show” was hugely successful in reruns in the British Isles, even more so than over here in the US.

121. Features of Lincoln and Uncle Sam GOATEES
A goatee is a beard formed just be hair on a man’s chin. The name probably comes from the tuft of hair seen on an adult goat.

122. Online crafts store ETSY
Etsy.com is an e-commerce website where you can buy and sell the kind of items that you might find at a craft fair.

Down
1. ’80s sitcom puppet ALF
“ALF” is a sitcom that aired in the late eighties. ALF is a hand-puppet, supposedly an alien from the planet Melmac that crash-landed in a suburban neighborhood. “ALF” stands for “alien life form”.

2. Palais resident ROI
In French, a king (roi) can be found in a palace (palais).

3. Gretchen of “Boardwalk Empire” MOL
Gretchen Mol is the actress who plays Gillian Darmody on the HBO drama series “Boardwalk Empire”. Mol also played the title role in the 2005 film “The Notorious Bettie Page”.

“Boardwalk Empire” is an HBO drama series set in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The storyline is set in the 1920s and 1930s during the Prohibition Era. The star of the show is Steve Buscemi.

6. 2014 A.L. MVP Mike Trout, for one ANGEL
Mike Trout plays baseball for the Los Angeles Angels. Trout’s nickname is the “Millville Meteor”, as he grew up in Millville, New Jersey.

8. Dr.’s specialty ENT
Ear, Nose and Throat specialist (ENT)

10. Vietnamese port HAIPHONG
Haiphong is the third largest city in Vietnam, after Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Haiphong is in the northeast of the country and is an important seaport. “Haiphong” translates into English as “coastal defence”.

11. They “had decayed to a mere beautiful futility”: Wells ELOI
In the 1895 novel by H. G. Wells called “The Time Machine”, there are two races that the hero encounter in his travels into the future. The Eloi are the “beautiful people” who live on the planet’s surface. The Morlocks are a race of cannibals living underground who use the Eloi as food.

12. “Buddenbrooks” author MANN
Thomas Mann was a German novelist whose most famous work is probably his novella “Death in Venice”, originally published in German in 1912 as “Der Tod in Venedig”. The story was famously adapted for the big screen in 1971, in a movie starring Dirk Bogarde.

“Buddenbrooks” was Thomas Mann’s first novel, published in 1901. When Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, it was given on the basis of his whole body of work, although “Buddenbrooks” was specifically mentioned as the main reason for the award.

13. Duelers in a 1973 hit BANJOS
“Dueling Banjos” is a 1955 instrumental that was made famous by the 1972 movie “Deliverance”. “Dueling Banjos” was released as a single in 1973 and spent weeks at the number-two spot in the charts, held back by Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly with His Song”. A kind blog reader pointed out the interesting fact that in “Deliverance”, “Dueling Banjos” was played by one banjo and one guitar … dueling guitar and banjo.

16. Google co-founder Sergey BRIN
Sergey Brin co-founded Google along with Larry Page. Brin was born in Moscow and immigrated to the US with his family when he was 6 years old. Brin and Page met in Stanford as first-year students, and there created their first Internet search engine.

17. Web chat exchange IMS
Even though instant messaging (sending IMs) has been around since the 1960s, it was AOL who popularized the term “instant message” in the eighties and nineties.

18. Director Spike LEE
Shelton Jackson Lee is the real name of Spike Lee, the film director and producer. Lee’s first feature-length film, released in 1986, was “She’s Gotta Have It”. Lee shot the film in just twelve days, and kept the movie within its relatively small budget of only $175,000. “She’s Gotta Have It” grossed over $7 million …

19. Pres. or gov. LDR
A president (pres.) or governor (gov.) is a leader (ldr.).

28. Letters seen next to a 4 GHI
The letters GHI are often seen on the 4-key of a telephone keypad.

30. “Good night, sweet prince” speaker HORATIO
Horatio is a character in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, a friend of the play’s hero and a relatively uninterested party in the intrigue of the storyline. As a trusted friend, Horatio serves as a sounding board for Hamlet, allowing us in the audience to gain more insight into Hamlet’s thinking and character as we listen to the two in conversation. One of Horatio’s more famous lines is spoken right after the title character dies, as Horatio says goodbye to his friend:

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

33. Hosiery thread LISLE
Lisle is a cotton fabric that has been through an extra process at the end of its manufacture that burns off lint and the ends of fibers leaving the fabric very smooth and with a clean edge.

36. Smart __ ALECK
Apparently the original “smart Alec” (sometimes “Aleck”) was Alec Hoag, a pimp, thief and confidence trickster who plied his trade in New York City in the 1840s.

37. Spares in boots TYRES
In North America we use the word “trunk” for the storage space in the back of a vehicle as that space is reminiscent of the large travelling chest called a “trunk”. Such trunks used to be lashed onto the back of automobiles before storage was integrated. On the other side of the Atlantic, a trunk is known as a “boot”. The original boot was a built-in storage compartment on a horse-drawn carriage on which a coachman would sit.

41. Band booster AMP
An electric guitar, for example, needs an amplifier (amp) to take the weak signal created by the vibration of the strings and turn it into a signal powerful enough for a loudspeaker.

42. Poivre companion SEL
In French, one might season one’s food with salt (sel) and pepper (poivre).

46. Omar of “House” EPPS
Omar Epps is the actor who played Eric Foreman on the excellent television series “House”. Prior to playing Dr. Foreman, Epps had a recurring role playing Dr. Dennis Grant on “ER”.

52. Oscar-winning composer Menken ALAN
Alan Menken is a composer from New York City best known from the scores he produced for Disney movies. Menken won Oscars for the scores for “The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin” and “Pocahontas”.

53. Capitol Hill gp. CONG
Congress (Cong.)

56. One of the teams that made the Pac-10 the Pac-12 UTES
The Runnin’ Utes are the basketball team of the University of Utah. The team was given the nickname the Runnin’ Redskins back when Jack Gardner was the head coach from 1953 to 1971. The “Runnin'” part of the name was chosen because Gardner was famous for playing quick offenses. The “Redskins” name was later dropped in favor of the less controversial “Utes”.

Pac-12 is an abbreviation for the Pacific-12 Conference, a college athletic conference in the western US. The Pac-12 has won more NCAA National Team Championships than any other conference. The Pac-12 was founded in 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). Over time as it grew, the conference went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, Pacific-10 and became the Pacific-12 in 2011.

60. Budapest-born magician 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.

62. “Sorry, laddie” NAE
Nae is the Scottish vernacular for “no”.

63. Vishnu worshiper HINDU
The Hindu Trinity is Brahma the creator, Vishnu the maintainer or preserver, and Shiva (also Siva) the destroyer or transformer.

66. Tibiae supporters TALI
The collection of seven bones in the foot just below the foot are known collectively as the tarsus. One of those bones is the talus (plural “tali”), more commonly called the ankle bone. The talus is the lower part of the ankle joint and articulates with the lower ends of the tibia and fibula in the lower leg.

70. Mariners’ home SEATTLE
The Seattle Mariners are one of only two Major League teams never to have appeared in a World Series. The other is the Washington Nationals.

72. First lady after Eleanor BESS
Harry and Bess Truman met when they were very young children, at Sunday school. They were friends right through high school and became engaged in 1918 just before Harry went off to France during WWI, marrying the next year. Bess Truman never really took to the Washington scene when she became First Lady and stayed out of the limelight as much as she could. Perhaps that contributed to her longevity. Mrs. Truman lived to the age of 97, making her the longest living First Lady in US history.

Eleanor Roosevelt was the daughter of Elliot, brother to President Theodore Roosevelt. Eleanor met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was her father’s fifth cousin, in 1902, and the two started “walking out together” the following year after they both attended a White House dinner with President Roosevelt.

74. Skye writing ERSE
There are actually three Erse languages: Irish, Manx (spoken on the Isle of Man) and Scots Gaelic. In their own tongues, these would be Gaeilge (in Ireland), Gaelg (on the Isle of Man) and Gaidhlig (in Scotland).

The Isle of Skye is off the northwest coast of Scotland in the Inner Hebrides. It is the second largest island in the country, and has been linked to the mainland by a road bridge since 1995. I’ve never been there, but I hear the views are spectacular.

77. Romantic skunk LE PEW
Pepé Le Pew is a very likeable cartoon character from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. Pepé is a French skunk, first introduced way back in 1945. He is always thinking of “l’amour” and chases the lady skunks, or a black cat with a white stripe painted down her back accidently.

80. It made its last commercial flight in February 2014 DC-TEN
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a very recognizable passenger aircraft, with one engine under either wing and a third incorporated into the base of the vertical stabilizer at the rear of the plane. The DC-10 made its last commercial passenger flight in 2014, but it remains in service as a cargo plane, particularly with FedEx Express.

85. NYC subway IRT
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the original private operator of the New York Subway when it opened in 1904. The city took over ownership of the system in 1940, but the lines originally operated by the IRT are still known by the IRT moniker.

86. Rapa __ NUI
Rapa Nui is the Polynesian name for what we are more likely to call Easter Island. The European name was coined by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who came across the island on Easter Sunday in the year 1722. Easter Island is inhabited, and is a location that is remarkably distant from neighboring civilization. The nearest inhabited island is Pitcairn Island, almost 1300 miles away.

87. D neighbors on most guitars G-STRINGS
The standard tuning on a 6-string guitar sets the string pitches as E (low), A, D, G, B and E (high).

90. Title girl in a 1968 Turtles hit ELENORE
“Elenore” was a 1968 recording by the Turtles folk rock band.

The Turtles were a Californian rock band active in the late sixties. The biggest hit for the Turtles was 1967’s “Happy Together”.

96. Liszt’s “Piano Sonata __ Minor” IN B
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer and a fabulous pianist. Particularly towards the end of his life, Liszt gained a tremendous reputation as a teacher. While he was in his sixties, his teaching jobs caused him to commute regularly between the cities of Rome, Weimar and Budapest. It is quite remarkable that a man of such advanced age, and in the 1870s, could do so much annual travel. It is estimated that Liszt journeyed at least 4,000 miles every year!

101. “Taxi” dispatcher LOUIE
Danny DeVito’s big break as an actor was winning the role of Louie De Palma on the sitcom “TaxI”. After parlaying his success on television into some major comic roles on the big screen, DeVito turned to producing. He co-founded the production company Jersey Films which made hit movies such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Garden State”. DeVito has been married to actress Rhea Perlman for over 30 years, recently reconciling with her after an announcement that they planned to divorce.

105. 32-card game SKAT
When I was a teenager in Ireland, I had a friend with a German father. The father taught us the game of Skat, and what a great game it is. Skat originated in Germany in the 1800s and is to this day the most popular card game in the country. I haven’t played it in decades, but would love to play it again …

109. Keep a record of LOG
The word “logbook” dates back to the days when the captain of a ship kept a daily record of the vessel’s speed, progress etc. using a “log”. A log was a wooden float on a knotted line that was dropped overboard to measure speed through the water.

110. John Lennon’s middle name ONO
After John Lennon married Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name by deed poll, adding “Ono” as a middle name. His official name became John Winston Ono Lennon, as he wasn’t allowed to drop the name “Winston” that was given to him at birth.

111. Windy City “L” runner CTA
The Chicago “L” is the second largest rapid transit system in the US, with the New York City Subway being the largest. The “L” is also the second oldest, again with the New York City Subway system having the honor of being around the longest. Note that the official nickname for the system is the “L” (originally short for “elevated railroad”), although the term “El” is also in common use (especially in crosswords as “ELS”). The L is managed by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).

It seems that the derivation of Chicago’s nickname as the “Windy City” isn’t as obvious as I would have thought. There are two viable theories. First that the weather can be breezy, with wind blowing in off Lake Michigan. The effect of the wind is exaggerated by the grid-layout adopted by city planners after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The second theory is that “windy” means “being full of bluster”. Sportswriters from the rival city of Cincinnati were fond of calling Chicago supporters “windy” in the 1860s and 1870s, meaning that they were full of hot air in their claims that the Chicago White Stockings were superior to the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

116. Some NFL linemen RTS
In American football, linemen specialize in playing in the line of scrimmage. RT stands for Right Tackle. That’s about all I know, and even that I am unsure about …

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Military competition ARMS RACE
9. “Excuse me …” AHEM …
13. Tab BAR BILL
20. Visit briefly, as a sick friend LOOK IN ON
21. In __ land LA-LA
22. Frightened ALARMED
23. Manicurist’s work area? FILING STATION (from “filling station”)
25. Still puzzled NO WISER
26. Beaut GEM
27. Jilted “dear” lover who hasn’t given up? HOPING JOHN (from “Hopping John”)
29. Like some bird calls SHRILL
33. Tie securely LASH
34. Kachina doll maker HOPI
35. Parlor design, perhaps TAT
38. “Cupid” singer Sam COOKE
39. Belittle DIS
40. Place to get refreshed OASIS
43. How deadpan humor is delivered DRILY
45. Dispute settlers ARBITERS
47. “Put your money away” ON ME
48. Reiki practitioner HEALER
49. Surprise attack RAID
50. Grand Canal? POLING PLACE (from “polling place”)
54. Board game staples DICE
55. Smoker’s buy: Abbr. CTN
56. Shoe parts UPPERS
57. Cyberguffaw LOL
58. Flowers in pens? INKS
59. Figures on a rink EIGHTS
61. Understanding KEN
63. Purse HANDBAG
65. Platte River tribe OTOE
66. Providing extra digital support? TOE TAPING (from “toe tapping”)
69. Tiny colonists ANTS
71. Conserve HUSBAND
73. Marine eagle ERN
74. Book read during the Jewish holiday Purim ESTHER
76. Dog follower SLED
78. Yale alum ELI
79. Milk sources UDDERS
82. Lac filler EAU
83. Dean’s “Lois & Clark” co-star TERI
84. Finding a home for an Anaheim team? SITING DUCKS (from “sitting ducks”)
88. Grounded fleet SSTS
89. Joins the debate OPINES
91. Bit of sneakiness RUSE
92. Hole starters TEE SHOTS
94. Rhodes with a scholarship CECIL
95. Words to strike up the band HIT IT!
97. French possessive SES
98. Scenically patterned fabric TOILE
99. Utility co. unit KWH
100. College town east of Greensboro ELON
102. Destruction RUIN
104. Oval-shaped dose CAPLET
105. Making hay when the sun doesn’t shine? SNOW BALING (from “snowballing”)
108. Asian-American actor Philip known for war movie roles AHN
109. Labor dispute tactic LOCKOUT
112. Furniture-weaving facility? CANING FACTORY (from “canning factory”)
118. London locale ONTARIO
119. Bilko’s mil. rank MSGT
120. Enter carefully EASE INTO
121. Features of Lincoln and Uncle Sam GOATEES
122. Online crafts store ETSY
123. Sin TRESPASS

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1. ’80s sitcom puppet ALF
2. Palais resident ROI
3. Gretchen of “Boardwalk Empire” MOL
4. __ mask SKI
5. Hairstyle curl RINGLET
6. 2014 A.L. MVP Mike Trout, for one ANGEL
7. Micro- ending -COSM
8. Dr.’s specialty ENT
9. Choral parts ALTOS
10. Vietnamese port HAIPHONG
11. They “had decayed to a mere beautiful futility”: Wells ELOI
12. “Buddenbrooks” author MANN
13. Duelers in a 1973 hit BANJOS
14. Thrown for __ A LOOP
15. Untanned animal skin RAWHIDE
16. Google co-founder Sergey BRIN
17. Web chat exchange IMS
18. Director Spike LEE
19. Pres. or gov. LDR
24. Enlightened cries AHAS
28. Letters seen next to a 4 GHI
29. Seldom seen SCARCE
30. “Good night, sweet prince” speaker HORATIO
31. Regally dressing aristocrats? ROBING THE RICH (from “robbing the rich”)
32. “Not serious” I KID
33. Hosiery thread LISLE
35. Making a patio out of a garden? TILING THE SOIL (from “tilling the soil”)
36. Smart __ ALECK
37. Spares in boots TYRES
39. Go down DROP
41. Band booster AMP
42. Poivre companion SEL
44. Glowing RADIANT
46. Omar of “House” EPPS
47. First stage ONSET
48. Had in one’s portfolio HELD
51. Displeased IRKED
52. Oscar-winning composer Menken ALAN
53. Capitol Hill gp. CONG
56. One of the teams that made the Pac-10 the Pac-12 UTES
60. Budapest-born magician HOUDINI
62. “Sorry, laddie” NAE
63. Vishnu worshiper HINDU
64. Choral part BASS
66. Tibiae supporters TALI
67. Doing the job ON IT
68. Very proper sort PRUDE
70. Mariners’ home SEATTLE
72. First lady after Eleanor BESS
74. Skye writing ERSE
75. Potato often used for fries RUSSET
76. Portfolio component STOCK
77. Romantic skunk LE PEW
80. It made its last commercial flight in February 2014 DC-TEN
81. Squeezes (out) EKES
85. NYC subway IRT
86. Rapa __ NUI
87. D neighbors on most guitars G-STRINGS
88. Store SHOP
90. Title girl in a 1968 Turtles hit ELENORE
93. Batting postures STANCES
95. Manuals, e.g. HOW-TOS
96. Liszt’s “Piano Sonata __ Minor” IN B
97. Indication SIGN
101. “Taxi” dispatcher LOUIE
103. Cohesion UNITY
104. Dramatic movie scene CHASE
105. 32-card game SKAT
106. Pinnacle ACME
107. Tenth of ten, say LAST
108. Miles away AFAR
109. Keep a record of LOG
110. John Lennon’s middle name ONO
111. Windy City “L” runner CTA
113. Become ill with GET
114. Advice from a pro TIP
115. Words with hunch or bet ON A
116. Some NFL linemen RTS
117. Howdies YOS

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