Crossword by: Ed Sessa and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the Sunday July 28 2013 LA Times crossword answers! Today’s theme is ‘Networking’. Popular television network acronyms are found in the first letters of the answers to the themed answers. The tv networks are: TNT – Turner Network Television, NBC – National Broadcasting Company, AMC – American Movie Classics, TCM – Turner Classic Movies, ABC – American Broadcasting Company, TBS – Turner Broadcasting System, CBS – Columbia Broadcasting System and PBS – Public Broadcasting Service.
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Across
1. Mature ADULT
6. One of a typical schooner’s pair MAST
10. Water holders DAMS
14. Sees eye to eye? FACES
19. Patty Hearst’s SLA alias TANIA
20. Alice’s immortalizer ARLO
21. Inclusive ending ET AL
22. Kate’s TV mate ALLIE
23. Bug-hits-windshield sound SPLAT
24. Lab gel medium AGAR
25. Stage highlight ARIA
26. “CSI” part? SCENE
27. *”Perhaps” THERE’S NO TELLING
30. Wedding proposal? TOAST
31. You-__: rural addresses UNS
32. Fight unit: Abbr. RND
33. Connection facilitators, briefly ISPS
34. Fireplace place HEARTH
35. Computer in a cubicle DESKTOP
37. Wild talk RANT
39. Roll on the ball field SOD
40. “__ Mir Bist Du Schoen” BEI
41. *Snacks not needing an oven NO-BAKE COOKIES
45. Tiger’s ex ELIN
46. Chem lab tube PIPET
49. Well-coiffed Byrnes EDD
50. Cupid’s wings ALAE
51. __ bean: sprouts source MUNG
52. Cast member’s part ROLE
53. *”When I say so,” militarily speaking AT MY COMMAND
57. Military meal MESS
58. Private insignia ONE STRIPE
60. Carrie’s org. on “Homeland” CIA
61. Poor grades DEES
63. Smokey Bear broadcast, briefly PSA
64. Like __ out of hell A BAT
65. Critic Reed REX
66. Rachael Ray sautéing initialism EVOO
68. Royal Botanic Gardens locale KEW
71. Big hauler SEMI
73. Wet expanse SEA
74. Auto trip problem BLOWN TIRE
76. Court answer PLEA
78. Signature song for Sammy Davis Jr. THE CANDY MAN
82. Psychic’s verb READ
83. Soldiers under Lee REBS
84. Flor del amor ROSA
85. Great Basin native UTE
86. Oktober endings -FESTS
87. Fancy molding OGEE
88. *Practically guaranteed ALL BUT CERTAIN
93. __-relief BAS
94. School support gp. PTA
95. A fourth of doce TRES
96. Carrion consumer VULTURE
100. Fútbol cheer OLE OLE
102. Computer info DATA
104. “Wow” GEE
105. Homer’s neighbor NED
106. Close call SCARE
107. *Ambushed TAKEN BY SURPRISE
112. Trig function COTAN
113. No longer happening OVER
114. Places LOCI
115. Beetles, perhaps AUTOS
116. Driver’s lic., e.g. IDENT
117. Herb used with potatoes DILL
118. Benediction opener O GOD
119. Oodles SLEWS
120. Like marshes SEDGY
121. Operation Overlord time D-DAY
122. Hinged entrance GATE
123. “The Gondoliers” girl TESSA
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Down
1. Like some retired racehorses AT STUD
2. Apollo’s nymph DAPHNE
3. Conditional word UNLESS
4. One may be exposed during cross-examination LIAR
5. Ore-Ida morsel TATER TOT
6. Kettles from Cape Flattery MA AND PA
7. Jason’s vessel ARGO
8. Shutter part SLAT
9. Sped TORE
10. Gives a hand DEALS TO
11. Anchor position ATRIP
12. Sewer lines MAINS
13. Metallic by-product SLAG
14. Followed a Lenten routine FASTED
15. Big name in siding ALCOA
16. *Fair forecast CLEAR BLUE SKIES
17. Hardly dim bulbs EINSTEINS
18. Hallucinate SEE THINGS
28. Hoity-toity sort SNOB
29. Type starter LINO-
34. Cleaned, as a deck HOSED DOWN
36. Low benders KNEES
37. Try a new shade on REDYE
38. “High Voltage” rockers AC DC
39. Bean who played Boromir in “The Lord of the Rings” films SEAN
42. Neat KEMPT
43. __ Sutra KAMA
44. Waterfront gp. ILA
45. Supermodel born Melissa Miller EMME
46. Stage aid PROP
47. Charged atoms IONS
48. *Settling request PLEASE BE SEATED
53. Settle things, in a way ARBITRATE
54. Familia member TIA
55. Wet expanse OCEAN
56. Potpourri MIX
59. Skye cap TAM
62. Geological stretch EON
65. “The Crying Game” actor REA
66. Wabbit hunter ELMER
67. U.S. govt. broadcaster VOA
69. Latin 101 word ERAT
70. Forms a union WEDS
72. Relax EASE
73. Wound covering SCAB
74. 102-Across units BYTES
75. Nottingham’s river TRENT
76. Schnoz like Durante’s PROBOSCIS
77. System of laws LEGAL CODE
79. Havana hi HOLA
80. Course for would-be U.S. citizens ESL
81. Il __: Mussolini DUCE
86. Walk by singly FILE PAST
89. To the nth degree UTTERLY
90. Air__: low-cost carrier TRAN
91. Weekly magazine where the initials of the answers to starred clues can be found TV GUIDE
92. Heifetz’s teacher AUER
94. More than enough PLENTY
97. Gets together UNITES
98. Seeds again RESOWS
99. Historic Mesopotamian city EDESSA
101. Long-armed ape ORANG
102. Judean king DAVID
103. Cub Scout leader AKELA
107. Sweeney with scissors TODD
108. Opine online BLOG
109. Meditative practice YOGA
110. Many a bagpiper SCOT
111. Reign RULE
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