Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday March 24th 2019, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 “Behind the __ I’ll convey myself”: Polonius ARRAS
6 Base near home THIRD
11 EMT skill CPR
14 Judge’s seat BANC
18 Hardwood tree BEECH
19 Fail to make use of WASTE
20 WC… LOO
21 Prayer opening O LORD
23 *Henry James heroine DAISY MILLER
25 Top of a scepter, perhaps ORB
26 “Three Tall Women” Pulitzer playwright ALBEE
27 German university city ULM
28 Initial payments ANTES
29 *Hip-hop artist with the 2014 #1 hit “Fancy” IGGY AZALEA
31 Pays attention LISTENS
34 Delivery pros OB/GYNS
35 One taking a selfie CELL
36 AP rival UPI
37 “Cold one over here, please” BEER ME
40 Campaign funding org. PAC
42 *Youngest NBA player to win the MVP… DERRICK ROSE
46 Big risk taker DAREDEVIL
52 Happening EVENT
53 Studio supporter? EASEL
54 Remote, as a road LONESOME
55 Dwindle FADE AWAY
57 Divested (of) RID
58 Bird in Saint-Saëns’ “The Carnival of the Animals” SWAN
59 1912 Olympic legend THORPE
60 2007 IHOP acquisition APPLEBEE’S
66 Barrett of Pink Floyd SYD
67 *Bashful one SHRINKING VIOLET
71 “NCIS” was spun off from it JAG
74 Key movie scenes SET PIECES
75 60-year-old Mattel classic BARBIE
79 Since AS OF
81 D.C. VIP… SEN
82 Pocatello natives IDAHOANS
84 Korean rice dish BIBIMBAP
87 Designer Geoffrey BEENE
90 Keats, for one ODIST
91 “These go to eleven” band SPINAL TAP
93 *”Under the Net” novelist IRIS MURDOCH
95 Prefix with Pen EPI-
96 Nab ARREST
98 Pocatello-to-Provo dir. SSE
99 Borscht veggie BEET
102 Approached NEARED
105 Go back in RE-ENTER
109 *Looney Tunes girlfriend PETUNIA PIG
111 “The way I __ … ” SEE IT
114 Creature found atop the apt part of each answer to a starred clue BEE
115 Pine Tree State campus town ORONO
116 __ Diego SAN
117 *Add unneeded ornamentation GILD THE LILY
120 Some, in Stuttgart EINES
121 Bit of work ERG
122 Saying ADAGE
123 Big fight MELEE
124 Palindromic Latin verb ESSE
125 Rehab woe DTS
126 Palindromic court star SELES
127 Creases FOLDS
DOWN
1 “Idol” judge replaced by DeGeneres ABDUL
2 “Around the Horn” host Tony REALI
3 French coronation city REIMS
4 Coolers in windows, briefly ACS
5 Timid SHY
6 Target Field team TWINS
7 Cease HALT
8 Bermuda, e.g. ISLE
9 GPS data RTES
10 Aachen article DER
11 Blocked, as a drain CLOGGED
12 Gershwin title lover PORGY
13 One-named Swedish pop singer ROBYN
14 Ruth’s husband BOAZ
15 Allowing admittance anywhere, as a pass ALL-ACCESS
16 Highborn NOBLE
17 Angler’s basket CREEL
22 Reason to shake DEAL
24 Overexcited MANIC
29 Watson creator IBM
30 Vail alternative ASPEN
32 Tina and Lana TURNERS
33 Mel Blanc’s “That’s All Folks” et al. EPITAPHS
34 Pitcher Hershiser OREL
37 Donkey sound BRAY
38 Dawn deity EOS
39 Linguistic suffix -ESE
41 Citrus suffix -ADE
42 Skillful DEFT
43 Cole Porter’s “Well, Did You __?” EVAH
44 Make over REDO
45 Mauna __ KEA
47 Suspect’s story ALIBI
48 Copland ballet with a hoedown RODEO
49 Gives one’s word VOWS
50 “It could happen” I MAY
51 Allow to use LEND
56 “The Way We __” WERE
57 Guns REVS
60 Like, with “to” AKIN
61 Dessert option PIE
62 __ Park: Pirates’ field PNC
63 Part of XL: Abbr. LGE
64 Site of Napoleon’s exile ELBA
65 Fish in the genus Hippocampus SEAHORSE
68 Where __ IT’S AT
69 Hip-hop’s Salt-__ N-PEPA
70 Walked-on TRODDEN
71 Some punches JABS
72 Take __ of: taste A SIP
73 Mongolian desert GOBI
76 Scott of “Charles in Charge” BAIO
77 Etched: Abbr. INSC
78 Bk. read at Purim ESTH
80 Tweaks FINE-TUNES
82 Research ctr. INST
83 JFK, say DEM
85 Plan, with “out” MAP
86 Pancakes sometimes served with caviar BLINI
87 What Superman first looked like? BIRD
88 Prior to, in poems ERE
89 Grafton’s “__ for Evidence” E IS
92 Sliced-off parts PARINGS
94 “He that __ many words shall be abhorred”: Eccl. USETH
97 Coffee order: Abbr. REG
99 Fraternal org. BPOE
100 Strange EERIE
101 Preppy jackets ETONS
103 Abated EASED
104 Aside (from) APART
105 Ceremonies RITES
106 Govt. security T-BILL
107 Caught congers EELED
108 Judy of “Devious Maids” REYES
110 Support for glasses NOSE
111 Facet SIDE
112 Israeli airline EL AL
113 Margin EDGE
117 Energy metaphor GAS
118 “Unbelievable” rock band EMF
119 Celestial lion LEO
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