LA Times Crossword Answers 25 Sep 16, Sunday

Constructed by: C.C. Burnikel

Edited by: Rich Norris

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Theme: Brand Recognition

Each of today’s themed answers comprises two words starting with the letters TM, the same initials that are often used as a symbol denoting a TRADEMARK:

• 108A…Corporate identifier whose symbol is common to nine other puzzle answers..TRADEMARK

• 23A…Alternative to Samoas..THIN MINTS
• 25A…Model S automaker..TESLA MOTORS
• 36A…Where many races are run..TRACK MEET
• 54A…Hunting guide of a sort..TREASURE MAP
• 73A…It starts at love..TENNIS MATCH
• 90A…Flier with striped wings..TIGER MOTH
• 105A…Place for emoji..TEXT MESSAGE
• 38D…”Utopia” author..THOMAS MORE
• 43D…”Now!”..THIS MINUTE!

Bill’s time: 23m 34s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies

Across

1…”I Am __”: recent Jenner documentary..CAIT

Caitlyn Jenner is a former Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon. Caitlyn competed as Bruce Jenner, and made an official gender change in September 2015. Bruce was married for 23 years to Kris Kardashian, the mother of the TV personality Kim Kardashian.

5…Parlor order..MALT

Walgreens claims to have introduced the malted milkshake, back in 1922.

9…Home of Spaceship Earth..EPCOT

Spaceship Earth is perhaps the structure that comes to mind when we think of Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort. It is the large, white, 18-story geodesic sphere.

14…Choker part..CLASP

Back in the 1800s, a choker was a large neckerchief. In the late 1920s “choker” was first used to describe a kind of necklace worn tightly around the neck.

20…Many a Jordanian..ARAB

The nation that we know as Jordan takes its name from the River Jordan that forms part of the country’s border with Israel and Palestine to the west. Jordan achieved independence in 1946 after the UN approved the end of the British Transjordan Mandate. The Kingdom of Transjordan changed its name to Jordan in 1948.

23…Alternative to Samoas..THIN MINTS

Depending on which bakery makes the particular variety of Girl Scout cookie, the name can vary. For example, Little Brownie Bakers makes the Samoa cookies, while ABC Bakers uses the same recipe and calls the cookies Caramel Delites. The assumption is that these cookies have the exotic name of “Samoa” because they contain the tropical ingredients of coconut and cocoa. The most popular variety of Girl Scout cookie sold is Thin Mints.

25…Model S automaker..TESLA MOTORS

Tesla Motors is a manufacturer of electric vehicles based in Palo Alto, California. Tesla is noted for producing the first electric sports car, called the Tesla Roadster. The company followed the sports car with a luxury sedan, the Model S. The Model S was the world’s best selling plug-in electric vehicle of 2015.

30…Anxious med. condition..OCD

Apparently obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the fourth most commonly diagnosed mental disorder, making it about as common as asthma.

31…Coffee shop amenity..FREE WI-FI

“Wi-Fi” is nothing more than a trademark, a trademark registered by an association of manufacturers of equipment that use wireless LAN (Local Area Network) technology. A device labeled with “Wi-Fi” has to meet certain defined technical standards, basically meaning that the devices can talk to each other. The name “Wi-Fi” suggests “Wireless Fidelity”, although apparently the term was never intended to mean anything at all.

33…Flower from the Greek for “star”..ASTER

Apparently, most aster species and cultivars bloom relatively late in the year, usually in the fall. The name “aster” comes into English via Latin from the Greek word “astéri” meaning “star”, a reference to the arrangement of the petals of the flower.

41…Madness may involve one..METHOD

There is method in my madness, well, usually …

44…Bread sometimes dipped in dal..NAAN

Naan (also “nan”) bread is very popular in Indian restaurants, as well as in other West, Central and South Asian cuisines. Indian Naan is traditionally baked in a clay oven known as a tandoor.

I love dal dishes, which are prepared from various peas or beans (often lentils) that have been stripped of their outer skins and split. Dal is an important part of Indian cuisines. I suppose in Indian terms, split pea soup (another of my favorites) would be called a dal.

50…Ice cream alternative, casually..FROYO

Frozen yogurt (froyo)

51…Mai __..TAI

The Mai Tai cocktail is strongly associated with the Polynesian islands, but the drink was supposedly invented in 1944 in Trader Vic’s restaurant in Oakland, California. One recipe is 6 parts white rum, 3 parts orange curaçao, 3 parts Orgeat syrup, 1 part rock candy syrup, 2 parts fresh lime juice, all mixed with ice and then a float added of 6 parts dark rum.

52…Snow house..IGLOO

The Inuit word for “house” is “iglu”, which we usually write as “igloo”. The Greenlandic (yes, that’s a language) word for “house” is very similar, namely “igdlo”.

62…Versace headquarters..MILAN

Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer. His death was perhaps as famous as his life. He was murdered in 1997 outside his mansion in Miami Beach by Andrew Cunanan. It is not certain that Cunanan knew who his victim was, as this was the last in a spree of five murders committed by him over a four month period. A few days after killing Versace, Cunanan used the same gun to commit suicide.

64…Equine color patterns..ROANS

A roan horse has an even mixture of white and colored hairs on the body with the head, lower legs, mane and tail having a more solid color.

67…Bathroom fixture..BIDET

“Bidet” is a French word that we imported into English. In French, the word “bidet” originally described a small horse or a pony. What we know as a bidet was so called because one can straddle it like a horse in order to use it.

68…”Four Quartets” poet..TS ELIOT

T. S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, largely due to his “Four Quartets”, a set of four poems that Eliot himself considered to be his life’s masterpiece.

70…Blue books?..SMUT

“Smut” means “dirt, smudge” and more recently “pornographic material”. The term comes from the Yiddish “schmutz”, which is a slang word used in English for dirt, as in “dirt on one’s face”.

73…It starts at love..TENNIS MATCH

In tennis the score of zero is designated as “love”. Some people believe that this usage originates from the French “l’oeuf” (meaning “the egg”). The idea is that the written character “0” looks like an egg.

77…”The Princess Bride” co-star..ELWES

Cary Elwes is an English actor, most noted for appearing in the 1987 film “The Princess Bride”. Cary is the son of a celebrated English portrait painter, Dominick Elwes.

79…Nebraska native..OTO

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.

80…Flu symptoms..AGUES

An ague is a fever, one usually associated with malaria.

81…Legendary fighter..ALI

Muhammad Ali won 56 professional fights, 37 of which were knockouts. He lost 5 fights, 4 being decisions and one being a technical knockout (TKO). The TKO-loss was Ali’s second-last fight, against Larry Holmes. By the time Ali took on Holmes, he was already showing signs of Parkinson’s Syndrome, although the diagnosis would not come until four years later.

82…Bass part..GILL

A fish’s gills are the organs equivalent to the lungs of many land animals. The gills can extract oxygen dissolved in water and excrete carbon dioxide.

83…”We’ll always have __”: Rick, to Ilsa, in “Casablanca”..PARIS

I love the words of one critic describing the chemistry between Bogart and Bergman in the film “Casablanca” … “she paints his face with her eyes”. Wow!

86…Stud starter..ANTE

Stud poker is the name given to many variants of poker, all characterized by the dealer giving each player a mix of cards face-down and face-up. The cards facing downwards are called “hole cards”, cards only visible to the individual who holds that particular hand. This gives rise to the phrase “ace in the hole”, a valuable holding that only the player with the ace is aware of.

88…Holey bread..BAGELS

The bagel was invented in the Polish city of Kraków in the 16th century. Bagels were brought to this country by Jewish immigrants from Poland who mainly established homes in and around New York City.

90…Flier with striped wings..TIGER MOTH

Tiger moths are moths in the family Arctiidae with brightly-colored, striped wings that loosely resemble the markings on a tiger, hence the name. The young tiger moth is a very hairy caterpillar known as a woolly bear or a woolly worm.

92…Barcelona-born surrealist..MIRO

Joan Miró was a Spanish artist. Miro immersed himself in Surrealism, so much so that Andre Breton, the founder of the movement, said that Miro was “the most Surrealist of us all”.

93…”King Kunta” rapper Kendrick __..LAMAR

Kendrick Lamar is a hip hop singer from Compton, California. Lamar’s full name is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, with the singer’s given name in honor of Motown artist Eddie Kendricks.

99…Remington of ’80s TV..STEELE

The eighties detective show “Remington Steele” stars Stephanie Zimbalist as a private detective, and Pierce Brosnan as the handsome bad boy, who’s really a good boy. The show is definitely melds the detective genre with elements of romantic comedy.

102…”My Way” lyricist..ANKA

The song “My Way” has lyrics that were written by Paul Anka in 1969, but the tune itself was composed two years earlier by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. The song had been released with completely different lyrics in France as “Comme d’habitude” (“As Usual”). When Anka heard the song on television in Paris he sought out and obtained the rights to use it himself, for free. Supposedly, “Comme d’habitude” has been recorded in more languages, by more artists, than any other song in the contemporary repertoire.

105…Place for emoji..TEXT MESSAGE

An emoji is a character found on many cell phones now that is much like an emoticon, but more elaborate.

109…Peace Nobelist Root..ELIHU

Elihu Root was an American statesman, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912 for his diplomatic work that brought “nations together through arbitration and cooperation”. Root served as Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt.

111…__ Alto..PALO

The city of Palo Alto, California takes its name from a specific redwood tree called El Palo Alto (Spanish for “the tall stick”) that is located within the bounds of the city. The tree is 110 feet tall and over a thousand years old.

112…Click sources..MICE

The first computer mouse was invented at the Stanford Research Institute in 1963, by one Douglas Engelbart. Sadly for him, his patent ran out before mice became standard equipment on computers, so he never made any money from his amazing invention.

115…Layered haircut..SHAG

A shag cut is a layered hairstyle. Meg Ryan famously sported a shag cut for many years.

Down

1…”Fueling Good” gas brand..CITGO

The oil and gasoline company Citgo was founded in 1910 as Cities Services Company, a supplier of gas and electricity to public utilities. City Services Company introduced the Citgo brand in 1965 in its petroleum businesses. Citgo is now owned by the national oil company of Venezuela.

2…For a specific purpose..AD HOC

The Latin phrase “ad hoc” means “for this purpose”. An ad hoc committee, for example, is formed for a specific purpose and is disbanded after making its final report.

5…Bistro bigwig..MAITRE D’

The full title of a “maître d’” is “maître d’hôtel”, which means “master of the hotel”.

“Bistro” was originally a Parisian slang term for a “little wine shop or restaurant”.

A “bigwig” is someone important. The use of the term harks back to the days when men of authority and rank wore big wigs.

6…__ Army: Palmer’s fans..ARNIE’S

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”. Off the course, Palmer was an avid pilot, but is now retired from flying. He resides in Latrobe, Pennsylvania for much of the year and the local airport is named in his honor: Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

7…Starbucks offering..LATTE

The term “latte” is an abbreviation of the Italian “caffelatte” meaning “coffee (and) milk”. Note that in the correct spelling of “latte”, the Italian word for milk, there is no accent over the “e”. An accent is often added by mistake when we use the word in English, perhaps meaning to suggest that the word is French.

8…”Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” channel..TBS

Samantha Bee is a comedian from Toronto who is best known as a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” starting way back in 2003. Bee left “The Daily Show” in 2015 to host her own late-night talk show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” on TBS.

9…Gloria of pop..ESTEFAN

Gloria Estefan is a Cuban American singer, born in Havana. She fled Cuba along with her family after the Cuban Revolution, and ended up in Miami. Her father fought for the US military in Vietnam, and also took part in the doomed Bay of Pigs invasion. Years later, Gloria herself was approached by the CIA to work for the agency due to her skill with languages. She ended up doing quite well singing instead …

11…Mama of pop..CASS

Cass Elliot was one of the four singers in the Mamas and the Papas, a sensational group from the sixties. “Mama Cass” was performing sold-out concerts in London in 1974 when she was found dead one morning, having had a heart attack. She was only 32 years old. Eerily, Elliot died in the same flat (on loan from Harry Nilsson) in which the Who’s drummer Keith Moon would die just four years later.

12…Magic, on sports tickers..ORL

The Orlando Magic were formed in 1989 as an NBA expansion team. A local paper was asked to run a competition to suggest names for the new team and the community came up with its four top picks of “Heat”, “Tropics”, “Juice” and “Magic”. A committee then opted for “Orlando Magic”. A good choice I think …

13…PreCheck org…TSA

The TSA is the Transportation Security Administration, the agency that employs the good folks that check passengers and baggage at airports.

15…Fanta size..LITER

The soft drink “Fanta” has quite an interesting history. As WWII approached, the Coca-Cola plant in Germany had trouble obtaining the ingredients it needed to continue production of the cola beverage, so the plant manager decided to create a new drink from what was available. The new beverage was built around whey (left over from cheese production) and pomace (left over after juice has been extracted from fruit). The inventor asked his colleagues to use their imagination (“Fantasie” in German) and come up with a name for the drink, so they piped up “Fanta!”

16…Don Juan’s love..AMOR

Don Juan is a flighty character who has been featured by a number of authors, poets and composers, including Molière, Byron, and Mozart. In the underlying legend, Don Juan ends up talking to the statue of the dead father of one of his conquests. Don Juan dines with the ghost of the dead man and when shaking the hand of the ghost he is dragged away to hell. We now use the term “Don Juan” to describe any womanizer or ladies’ man.

17…Microsoft : Cortana :: Apple : __..SIRI

Siri is software application that works with Apple’s iOS operating system. “Siri” is an acronym standing for Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface. You’ve probably seen the ads on television, with folks talking to their iPhones asking for information and responding with a voice. I hear that Google is a little scared by Siri, as Siri is non-visual. There’s no need to touch a screen or a keyboard to work with Siri, no opportunity to click on one of Google’s ads! By the way, voice-over artist Susan Bennett revealed herself as the female American voice of Siri not that long ago. The British version of Siri is called Daniel, and the Australian version is called Karen. Also, “Siri” is a Norwegian name meaning “beautiful woman who leads you to victory”, and was the name the developer had chosen for his first child.

18…Combat vet’s affliction..PTSD

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

24…Family members?..MAFIOSI

A Mafioso is a member of the Mafia, with the plural being Mafiosi (or sometimes Mafiosos).

28…Istanbul coins..LIRAS

The word “lira” is used in a number of countries for currency. “Lira” comes from the Latin for “pound” and is derived from a British pound sterling, the value of a Troy pound of silver.

Istanbul, Turkey is the only metropolis in the world that is situated in two continents. The city extends both on the European side and on the Asian side of the Bosphorus river.

32…Serena Williams has been its year-end #1 player since 2013..WTA TOUR

The Williams Sisters appear in the WTA Tour, organized by the Women’s Tennis Association.

33…Name on the range..AMANA

The Amana Corporation takes its name from the location of its original headquarters, in Middle Amana, Iowa. Today, the Amana name is very much associated with household appliances. The company was founded in 1934 to manufacture commercial walk-in coolers.

37…Bauhaus artist..KLEE

The artist Paul Klee was born in Switzerland, but studied art in Munich in Germany. You can see many of Klee’s works in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. If you get to Bern in Switzerland, even more of them can be seen at the Zentrum Paul Klee that was opened in 2005.

The literal translation to the term “Bauhaus” is “House of Building”. It was a school (meaning education establishment) that operated from 1919 to 1933. It became famous for its approach to design across many disciplines, everything from art to typography.

38…”Utopia” author..THOMAS MORE

The word “Utopia” was coined by Sir Thomas More for his book “Utopia” published in 1516 describing an idyllic fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. More’s use of the name Utopia comes from the Greek “ou” meaning “not” and “topos” meaning “place”. By calling his perfect island “Not Place”, More was apparently making the point that he didn’t think that the ideal could actually exist.

39…Saudi money..RIYAL

The Saudi riyal is currency of Saudi Arabia, and the Qatari riyal is the currency of Qatar.

42…Morales of “Criminal Minds”..ESAI

The actor Esai Morales is best known in the world of film for the 1987 movie “La Bamba”, which depicted the life of Ritchie Valens and his half-brother Bob Morales (played by Esai). On the small screen, Morales plays Lt. Tony Rodriguez on “NYPD Blue” and Joseph Adama on “Caprica”.

“Criminal Minds” is a police drama that has aired on CBS since 2005. The stories revolve around the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia.

44…Lye, in the lab..NAOH

Sodium hydroxide is a highly caustic salt, with the chemical formula NaOH. Because of its caustic properties, sodium hydroxide is also known as “caustic soda”.

48…25-Across CEO Musk..ELON
(25A…Model S automaker..TESLA MOTORS)

Elon Musk is successful businessman who has founded or led some very high-profile companies, namely PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX.

50…”Social Studies” author Lebowitz..FRAN

Fran Lebowitz is an author and social commentator very much associated with New York City, where she lives. Lebowitz is also a heavy smoker, and an avid activist for smokers’ rights.

53…Pesky swarm..GNATS

Gnats are attracted to the smell of rotting food, and to vinegar. Simple homemade traps that use vinegar are often constructed to attract and kill gnats.

55…Ex-Cub Sandberg..RYNE

Ryne “Ryno” Sandberg is a former second baseman who played most of his career for the Chicago Cubs. Sandberg holds the major league fielding percentage record at second base.

58…Oscar winner Poitier..SIDNEY

Sidney Poitier won his only Best Actor Oscar playing the male lead in 1963’s “Lilies of the Field”.

The Hollywood actor Sidney Poitier was born in Miami, but grew up in the Bahamas. Poitiers breakthrough role in movies came with 1955’s “Blackboard Jungle”, in which he played an incorrigible high school student. I find it interesting that one of Poitier’s most respected performances found him playing a teacher of a rough set of students in 1967’s “To Sir, with Love”. Off the screen, Poitier entered the diplomatic service for the Bahamas, serving as the nation’s non-resident ambassador to Japan from 1997 until 2007.

60…Campus cadets’ org…ROTC

The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a training program for officers based in colleges all around the US. The ROTC program was established in 1862 when as a condition of receiving a land-grant to create colleges, the federal government required that military tactics be part of a new school’s curriculum.

63…Fragrant necklaces..LEIS

“Lei” is the Hawaiian word for “garland, wreath”, although in more general terms a “lei” is any series of objects strung together as an adornment for the body.

71…Elec., e.g…UTIL

Electricity (elec.) is a utility (util.).

72…Eighty-six..TOSS

“To eighty-six” something is to eject it, to throw it out. The origin of the term is unclear. One story is that it originated in the days of prohibition in the West Village of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Whenever there was a scheduled raid on the establishment called Chumley’s, an informant would call ahead and tell the bartender to “86” his customers i.e. to send them out the door on 86 Bedford Street. The cops would then turn up at the entrance on Pamela Court.

74…Comics read vertically..MANGA

The Japanese word “manga” means “whimsical pictures” and is an apt term to describe the Japanese style of comic book. Manga publications are more diverse than American comic books and have a larger audience. Manga cover many subjects including romance, sports, business, horror, and mystery.

75…Crop in a lab, say..ALTER

That would be cropping a photo in a photo lab.

84…”A long time __ in a galaxy … “..AGO

Every “Star Wars” film starts out with an opening crawl stating “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away….”

86…Rock singer Mann..AIMEE

Aimee Mann is a rock singer and guitarist from Virginia. Mann is married to Michael Penn, the brother of actor Sean Penn.

88…Spaniel, for one..BIRD DOG

Spaniels are gun dogs, or bird dogs, hunting dogs bred to find and retrieve game. The etymology of “spaniel” suggests that the breed is Spanish in origin, as the term came into English from the Old French “espaigneul” meaning “Spanish”.

90…Yeshiva reference..TALMUD

The Talmud is a collection of writings by thousands of rabbis and is a central text in Rabbinic Judaism, second only to the Torah.

In the Jewish tradition a yeshiva is an educational institution focusing on the study of sacred texts.

92…Youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate __ Yousafzai..MALALA

“I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” is a memoir co-written by Malala Yousafzai and British journalist Christina Lamb. The title tells the essence of her Malala’s story. She started a blog when she was 11 or 12, outlining her life in northwest Pakistan under occupation by the Taliban. As the Pakistani military regained control of the area, Malala’s story was told in a documentary and she was frequently giving interviews. One day a gunman came looking for her, and found her on her schoolbus. He shot Malala three times, with one bullet going into her forehead. She survived, and was taken to England to recuperate. She was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17, making her the youngest ever Nobel laureate.

93…Underworld river..LETHE

The Lethe is one of the five rivers of Hades in Greek mythology. All the souls who drank from the river Lethe experienced complete forgetfulness. The Greek word “lethe” means “oblivion, forgetfulness”.

95…Yeshiva reference..TORAH

The word “Torah” best translates as “teaching”, I am told.

96…Storied firefighter Red..ADAIR

Red Adair was a famous fighter of fires in oil fields, and was a native of Houston, Texas. Adair’s exploits were the inspiration for a 1968 movie called “Hellfighters” starring John Wayne.

97…Roughly..CIRCA

“Circa” is a Latin word meaning “around, near, about the time of”. We use “circa” directly in English to mean “about the time of”, as well as in derivative words such as “circle” and “circus”.

102…Group concerned with aging..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.

104…Palindromic plus-size model..EMME

Emme is the highest paid plus-size model in the world. Emme’s real name is Melissa Aronson, and she was born in New York City and raised in Saudi Arabia.

108…Pulls a Charmin shenanigan, briefly..TPS

TP’ing (toilet papering) is a prank involving the covering of some object or location with rolls and rolls of toilet paper. If you live in Texas or Minnesota, that little “prank” is legal, but if you live here in California it is classed as mischief or vandalism.

Charmin is a brand of toilet paper made by Procter & Gamble.

I suppose one could be forgiven for thinking that “shenanigan” is an Irish term, as it certainly sounds Irish. Usually written in the plural, shenanigans are acts of mischief, pranks. Apparently the word is of uncertain derivation but was coined in San Francisco and Sacramento, California in the mid-1800s.

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Complete List of Clues and Answers

Across

1…”I Am __”: recent Jenner documentary..CAIT

5…Parlor order..MALT

9…Home of Spaceship Earth..EPCOT

14…Choker part..CLASP

19…Hanging out, say..IDLE

20…Many a Jordanian..ARAB

21…Touches the clouds..SOARS

22…Constraint..LIMIT

23…Alternative to Samoas..THIN MINTS

25…Model S automaker..TESLA MOTORS

27…Fights..GOES AT IT

28…”__ do it!”..LET’S

29…Online handle..USER ID

30…Anxious med. condition..OCD

31…Coffee shop amenity..FREE WI-FI

33…Flower from the Greek for “star”..ASTER

35…Overtime causes..TIES

36…Where many races are run..TRACK MEET

38…Vocal syllable..TRA

41…Madness may involve one..METHOD

44…Bread sometimes dipped in dal..NAAN

45…Hit the runway..LAND

46…China problem..CHIP

47…Cookout leftovers..ASHES

48…Gobbles up..EATS

49…Complete..END

50…Ice cream alternative, casually..FROYO

51…Mai __..TAI

52…Snow house..IGLOO

54…Hunting guide of a sort..TREASURE MAP

57…Sound of disapproval..HISS

59…”Take your time”..NO HURRY

61…__ spray..NASAL

62…Versace headquarters..MILAN

64…Equine color patterns..ROANS

66…Tips that are often dropped..HINTS

67…Bathroom fixture..BIDET

68…”Four Quartets” poet..TS ELIOT

70…Blue books?..SMUT

73…It starts at love..TENNIS MATCH

77…”The Princess Bride” co-star..ELWES

79…Nebraska native..OTO

80…Flu symptoms..AGUES

81…Legendary fighter..ALI

82…Bass part..GILL

83…”We’ll always have __”: Rick, to Ilsa, in “Casablanca”..PARIS

85…Shame..PITY

86…Stud starter..ANTE

87…Exercises on a path..JOGS

88…Holey bread..BAGELS

89…Dallas-to-Memphis dir…ENE

90…Flier with striped wings..TIGER MOTH

92…Barcelona-born surrealist..MIRO

93…”King Kunta” rapper Kendrick __..LAMAR

94…Reaction to an insult, maybe..ICY STARE

96…See 35-Down.. … ACT

99…Remington of ’80s TV..STEELE

102…”My Way” lyricist..ANKA

103…Newspapers, radio, etc…OLD MEDIA

105…Place for emoji..TEXT MESSAGE

108…Corporate identifier whose symbol is common to nine other puzzle answers..TRADEMARK

109…Peace Nobelist Root..ELIHU

110…Unexpected, in a way..EARLY

111…__ Alto..PALO

112…Click sources..MICE

113…Dished (out)..METED

114…Uses a keyboard..TYPES

115…Layered haircut..SHAG

116…Many are named for presidents..ERAS

Down

1…”Fueling Good” gas brand..CITGO

2…For a specific purpose..AD HOC

3…Ashamed admission..I LIED

4…Column of numbers..TENS

5…Bistro bigwig..MAITRE D’

6…__ Army: Palmer’s fans..ARNIE’S

7…Starbucks offering..LATTE

8…”Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” channel..TBS

9…Gloria of pop..ESTEFAN

10…Like some justice..POETIC

11…Mama of pop..CASS

12…Magic, on sports tickers..ORL

13…PreCheck org…TSA

14…Place for skeletons?..CLOSET

15…Fanta size..LITER

16…Don Juan’s love..AMOR

17…Microsoft : Cortana :: Apple : __..SIRI

18…Combat vet’s affliction..PTSD

24…Family members?..MAFIOSI

26…Not bright, as colors..MUTED

28…Istanbul coins..LIRAS

32…Serena Williams has been its year-end #1 player since 2013..WTA TOUR

33…Name on the range..AMANA

34…Ships..SENDS

35…With 96-Across, bad thing to be caught in..THE …

37…Bauhaus artist..KLEE

38…”Utopia” author..THOMAS MORE

39…Saudi money..RIYAL

40…Per unit..A POP

41…”Do the __!”..MATH

42…Morales of “Criminal Minds”..ESAI

43…”Now!”..THIS MINUTE!

44…Lye, in the lab..NAOH

46…Wave parts..CRESTS

48…25-Across CEO Musk..ELON

50…”Social Studies” author Lebowitz..FRAN

53…Pesky swarm..GNATS

54…Odor source..TRASH

55…Ex-Cub Sandberg..RYNE

56…Get together..UNITE

58…Oscar winner Poitier..SIDNEY

60…Campus cadets’ org…ROTC

63…Fragrant necklaces..LEIS

65…Where to see runners..SLEIGHS

66…Call of the wild..HOWL

67…Get going..BEGIN

69…Societal problems..ILLS

71…Elec., e.g…UTIL

72…Eighty-six..TOSS

73…Crime scene barrier..TAPE

74…Comics read vertically..MANGA

75…Crop in a lab, say..ALTER

76…Stadium section..TIER

78…”Oh, puh-leeze!”..SPARE ME!

82…Prankster’s cry..GOT YA!

84…”A long time __ in a galaxy … “..AGO

86…Rock singer Mann..AIMEE

87…Burdens for horses..JOCKEYS

88…Spaniel, for one..BIRD DOG

90…Yeshiva reference..TALMUD

91…Work the crowd..MINGLE

92…Youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate __ Yousafzai..MALALA

93…Underworld river..LETHE

95…Yeshiva reference..TORAH

96…Storied firefighter Red..ADAIR

97…Roughly..CIRCA

98…Viewpoints..TAKES

99…Cherry throwaway..STEM

100…Cast lead-in..TELE-

101…Way out..EXIT

102…Group concerned with aging..AARP

104…Palindromic plus-size model..EMME

106…Prepared..SET

107…For example..SAY

108…Pulls a Charmin shenanigan, briefly..TPS

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