7/3/16 Answer LA Times Crossword

7/3/16

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1D
Puccini heroine
TOSCA

2D
Sideline greeting
HI MOM!

3D
Tie the knot on the fly
ELOPE

4D
Vitamin A form
RETINOL

5D
Steinbeck title place
EDEN

6D
Skeptic
NAYSAYER

7D
Provides a false alibi for
ABETS

8D
Rush drummer Neil
PEART

9D
Handles the intros
EMCEES

10D
Swells
SURGES

11D
Trivialize
PLAY DOWN

12D
Dvorák’s “__ World Symphony”
NEW

13D
Ease
SOFTEN

14D
Domino effect
CHAIN REACTION (giving “chain saw”)

15D
Training guide?
RAIL

16D
”Rule Britannia” composer
ARNE

17D
Strokes
PETS

20D
Big time
ERA

28D
”Ya __ believe!”: 1973 Mets catchphrase
GOTTA

29D
Like so
THUS

30D
Avoid
SHUN

36D
”Zeus and the Tortoise” storyteller
AESOP

37D
Baltic port
RIGA

39D
Permanently mark
ETCH

40D
It will get you a hand
ANTE

41D
Let go, with “off”
LAID

42D
Mine vehicles
TRAMS

43D
Point toward
AIM AT

44D
Wilderness Road pioneer
BOONE

45D
Away
NOT IN

46D
Nashville-to-Louisville dirD
NNE

48D
Look up to
ADMIRE

52D
Maidenhair, e.gD
FERN

53D
Dream Team orgD
USOC

54D
Cedar Rapids college
COE

56D
Begging the question
CIRCULAR LOGIC (giving “circular saw”)

58D
52-Down cell
SPORE

60D
Numerical prefix
OCTA-

62D
Drops back
EBBS

63D
Short races
DASHES

68D
Stand up to
DEFY

69D
Diner and sleeper
CARS

70D
Rhyme writer’s Muse
ERATO

72D
Sleep soundly?
SNORE

73D
River in Hades
LETHE

74D
Ranger of the ’50s
EDSEL

76D
Suffer
AIL

79D
Distorts
SKEWS

80D
Hill builders
ANTS

81D
Its atomic number is 10
NEON

82D
Prefix with byte
GIGA-

84D
Army E-7s
SFCS

85D
Despicable character
CUR

89D
Forthwith
DIRECTLY

91D
Response to a doorbell
I’LL GET IT

92D
West Texas grassy plain
LLANO

95D
Pulitzer-winning WWII journalist
PYLE

96D
An article may be written on it
SPEC

97D
1968 1 hit with a four-minute coda
HEY JUDE

99D
Chocolate bites
KISSES

101D
Loves a bunch
ADORES

102D
Many nonvoters
MINORS

106D
Nine-time Grand Slam singles champ
SELES

107D
Author Calvino
ITALO

109D
Nettled
VEXED

110D
French school
ECOLE

111D
Spread
STREW

112D
Chesapeake delicacy
CRAB

113D
Attack with, as insults
HURL

114D
Not bamboozled by
ONTO

116D
Outlying mail rteD
RFD

117D
Prove untrustworthy, in a way
BLAB

119D
A kind of one appears in this puzzle’s seven longest answers
SAW

1C
”Voilà!”
THERE!

6C
Midday refresher
NAP

9C
”Monday Night Football” airer
ESPN

13C
Note-to-self paper
SCRAP

18C
Dealt with a squeak
OILED

19C
Busy as __
A BEE

21C
West Point mascot
MULE

22C
ORD, on luggage tags
O’HARE

23C
Clobbered, old-style
SMOTE

24C
Wine bottle info
YEAR

25C
Sticking point?
CRAW

26C
Hard to spot
FAINT

27C
Something to deal with?
COPING STRATEGY (giving “coping saw”)

30C
Fence crossings
STILES

31C
”We agree completely!”
AMEN!

32C
Brewer’s kiln
OAST

33C
Pay attention to
HEED

34C
Lady lobster
HEN

35C
Like granola bars
OATY

37C
Rene of “Nightcrawler”
RUSSO

38C
Beyond belief
UNREAL

42C
Olympic sport since 1988
TABLE TENNIS (giving “table saw”)

47C
Sickly
WAN

49C
View from Catania
ETNA

50C
It beat out Madrid as host city for the 2016 Olympics
RIO

51C
Unisex wrap
SARONG

52C
Back
FUND

54C
Sonoran flora
CACTI

55C
Brand that evolved from Standard Oil of Indiana
AMOCO

57C
Needles
TEASES

59C
Bummed
MOOCHED

61C
Salon indulgence
MANI-PEDI

64C
Old hand
PRO

65C
Tracy Marrow’s stage name
ICE-T

66C
Road or gang ending
STER

67C
Music in a shell
BAND CONCERT (giving “band saw”)

71C
Carnival stop
ISLE

75C
Red options, briefly
CABS

77C
Organ with a drum
EAR

78C
Thought-out
REASONED

80C
Misery
ANGUISH

83C
Coca-Cola brand
FRESCA

86C
Gale’s 40, on the Beaufort scale
KNOTS

87C
Sam of “Jurassic Park” films
NEILL

88C
Breyers shelfmate
EDY’S

90C
Not effective
FUTILE

93C
MLB line score letters
RHE

94C
Forum attire
TOGA

95C
Air pressure measC
PSI

96C
Mouse feature
SCROLL WHEEL (giving “scroll saw”)

98C
Rudely sarcastic
SNARKY

100C
Some entryways
RAMPS

103C
Operate with a beam
LASE

104C
Rapper __ Wayne
LIL

105C
Falco of “The Sopranos”
EDIE

106C
Certain language unit
SIGN

108C
Montand of cinema
YVES

112C
Make a decision
CHOOSE

115C
More than an idea
CONCRETE OBJECT (giving “concrete saw”)

118C
Ladder units
RUNGS

119C
Houston player, to fans
’STRO

120C
Penzance pad
FLAT

121C
Site of Theban ruins
LUXOR

122C
Paraplegic “Glee” teen
ARTIE

123C
119-Across, since 2013
ALER

124C
Dog seller
DELI

125C
Artist with the album “25”
ADELE

126C
Voting groups
BLOCS

127C
”The Swiss Family Robinson” author
WYSS

128C
Barfly
SOT

129C
” your laments, / Wherewith you now __ King Henry’s hearse”: Shak
BEDEW