Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the September 21st LA Times newspaper crossword puzzle:
ACROSS
1 Lift passages? SHAFTS
7 English derby site EPSOM
12 Mother of Calcutta TERESA
18 Exchange SWAP OUT
19 ___ myrtle CRAPE
20 Is crazy about ADORES
21 Gem with a distinctive sparkle STAR RUBY
22 Not from the same source HETEROGENOUS
24 Greek nickname ARI
25 Be the queen of RULE OVER
27 Bug for payment DUN
28 Doctor of music? DRE
29 Actress Gershon et al. GINAS
32 Thriller author’s first name LEN
33 Each A POP
35 Pressure HEAT
36 Positively bonkers AS MAD AS A HATTER
41 Deteriorates, in a way RUSTS
42 Robed dignitary EMIR
43 Dollars and cents MONIES
44 Barrel of fun? KEG
45 Man with a tough choice HOBSON
48 Use as a crutch, perhaps RELY TOO MUCH ON
52 Word on a buck ONE
53 Timeworn AGE OLD
55 Kind of kick, in football ON SIDE
56 Witty remark MOT
58 Gut feeling? PANG
60 Noted student of actress Jean Arthur when Arthur was a teacher at Vassar STREEP
62 When the cock crows SUNRISE
64 Pricey STEEP
66 Swift watercraft HYDROFOIL
70 North African capital TUNIS
71 Speech ORATION
73 Forecast word WARMER
75 Coward of cinema NOEL
76 Picker’s issue NIT
77 Pinches CRIMPS
81 Some baseball deals TRADES
83 “Miracle on Ice” team USA
84 “Relief is just a ___!” PHONECALL AWAY
87 Sunday dinners ROASTS
89 Gumshoes, briefly PIS
90 Inveigh against RAIL AT
91 I-don’t-know-how-long EONS
92 No-frills BASIC
95 What a citizen of Canada was called before 1977 BRITISH SUBJECT
99 Layer of the eye UVEA
100 ___ Mawr BRYN
101 Heart recording, briefly EKG
102 It made the ZDX crossover ACURA
104 NYC ave. LEX
105 “A Dream Within a Dream” penner POE
106 Relative of teal SEA GREEN
111 Sense of music, perhaps EAR
112 Spiritual writer-philosopher born in British India KRISHNA MURTI
115 Unfit to ingest INEDIBLE
118 Log-in need USER ID
119 Climber’s spike PIT ON
120 Cameroon neighbor NIGERIA
121 Hazards PERILS
122 Recipe parts STEPS
123 Behaved brattily SASSED
DOWN
1 Old boyfriends SWAINS
2 Guffaw syllable HAR
3 Letters in car ads APR
4 The last ball FOUR
5 Like penne or ziti TUBULAR
6 Newspaper spelling guidelines STYLES
7 Lover of Narcissus ECHO
8 Before: abbr. PREV
9 Fill completely SATE
10 Repair organs, e.g. OPERATE ON
11 Mal de ___ MER
12 Touch base again TAG UP
13 Fall scene? EDEN
14 Former White House nickname RON
15 Slowly vanishes ERODES
16 Artist who inspired Sondheim SEURAT
17 Portfolio listings ASSETS
18 Tiny groove STRIA
21 Wilt, as from work SAG
23 Oxygen doesn’t have one ODOR
26 Like some fondue pots ENAMELED
30 Iowa State’s home AMES
31 Where Robert Louis Stevenson died SAMOA
34 Change in Chile PESOS
35 Colorful-sounding name? HUGH
37 Nissan nicks DINGS
38 Obama’s attorney general HOLDER
39 “___ volunteers?” ANY
40 Defier of Stalin TITO
41 Just-released RECENT
44 Spiral-horned antelope KUDU
45 Boards, informally HOPS ON
46 Traveling ON A TRIP
47 Not worthy of BENEATH
48 Golfer McIlroy RORY
49 Deceived MISLED
50 Unsettling-sounding OMINOUS
51 Most meddlesome NOSIEST
54 ___ group ETHNIC
57 Modern electric cars TESLAS
59 Grok GET
61 Punch sound POW
63 “Head for the hills!” RUN
65 Ant attractor PICNIC
67 Islamic decrees FATWAS
68 “Well, actually …” OR RATHER
69 “It’s possible” I MAY
72 Unrefined finds OREOS
74 Hit again, as the stage REROB
78 Tie the knot MARRY
79 Nothing-fancy business outfit PLAIN SUIT
80 Revealing skirt feature SLIT
82 Skater Henie SONJA
85 “Vision” ending OPIA
86 Prince in “Aladdin” ALI
88 “Be there in ___” A SEC
91 Saint whose feast day is Dec. 25 EUGENIA
92 Build pecs and biceps BULK UP
93 Disinclined AVERSE
94 More alluring SEXIER
95 La ___ Tar Pits BREA
96 Units of yarn SKEINS
97 Contract bridge tactic CUE BID
98 Refrain from singing? TRALA
100 Connery, Moore, Brosnan, Craig, et al. BONDS
103 Word often shortened to its middle letter ARE
105 Groundhog’s name PHIL
107 One-named Deco artist ERTE
108 ___ the charts (No. 1) ATOP
109 Goes out, in a game GINS
110 Strips in a photo lab NEGS
113 Part of the country that was Ceylon SRI
114 UK election winners MPS
116 Paris’s Pont ___ arts DES
117 Anger IRE
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