L.A. Times Daily - Aug 23, 2015 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answer

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - Aug 23, 2015 Sunday

Clue	Answer
"__ needle pulling thread"	SEW A
"Ah Sun-flower!..Seeking after that sweet golden __": Blake	CLIME
"Dang!"	DRAT
"Downton Abbey" title	EARL
"Found it!"	AHA
"Friends" actress, familiarly	JEN
"Orinoco Flow" singer	ENYA
"Please don't __"	BE MAD
"Taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase":MLK	FAITH
"The heat __!"	IS ON
"The Three Sisters" sister	IRINA
"This I gotta see"	SHOW ME
"Yes __!"	SIREE
*"I won't tell a soul!"	MY LIPS ARE SEALED
*"You're not even close!"	VERY COLD
*Adversarial attitude	US VS THEM
*Not just a shot in the dark	EDUCATED GUESS
*Not seriously	JUST FOR FUN
*Popular party dish	NACHOS AND CHEESE
*Sci-fi fleet leader	MOTHERSHIP
*Words from the aptly punished	SERVED ME RIGHT
104 of Haydn's are numbered: Abbr.	SYMS
115-Down offense	DWI
11th-century year	MLI
1840s White House family	TYLERS
1966 #1 hit for The Association	CHERISH
7-__	ELEVEN
A typical one for the 35-Across can be found in the first words of the answers to starred clues	MNEMONIC
Allowed	LEGAL
Alluring	SEXY
AOL alternative	GMAIL
Apple and Google started in them	GARAGES
Arizona opponent in a landmark Supreme Court case	MIRANDA
Arrive, as clouds	ROLLIN
Australia's __ Rock	AYERS
Beethoven honoree	ELISE
Biblical baptist	JOHN
Bluish green	TEAL
Book describing the fall of Nineveh	NAHUM
Botanical cover	ARIL
Both Arnaz guys	DESIS
Burpee product	SEED
Butler with "a cynical humor in his mouth"	RHETT
BWI posting	ETA
Carrot nutrient	VITAMIN A
Categorically state	AVER
Cave	RELENT
Certain Prot.	EPISC
Check out, as a joint	CASE
Chopped down	HEWN
Cold response	SHIVER
Contribute	ADDIN
Cornmeal loaves	PONES
Crew chief	COX
Dam city	ASWAN
DNA structure	HELIX
Doo-wop syllables	DUMS
Dune buggy, e.g. briefly	ATV
Ending with cup	OLA
Environmental activist	ECO WARRIOR
Exasperated	FEDUP
Excavate again	REDIG
Familiar octet	PLANETS
Foe of Chiang	MAO
Formula One sound	VROOM
Founders	SINKS
Frequent flier's malady?	AVIAN FLU
Friend	ALLY
Get conned	BEHAD
Gets it	SEES
Hammett hound	ASTA
Handle badly	MISMANAGE
Hilo his	ALOHAS
It may contain regrets	RSVP
Japanese comics	MANGA
Jersey casino, with "The"	TAJ
Keep an __ the ground	EAR TO
Kind of agt.	GOVT
Kind of cow?	CASH
Kubla Khan's palacr	XANADU
Lacking originality	UNCREATIVE
Latin bears	URSAE
Like Brahms' Third	INF
Like typical snowflakes	HEXAGONAL
Linden tree	BASSWOOD
Lured (in)	ROPED
Macon university	MERCER
Meet partner	GREET
More than think	KNOW
Moving about	ASTIR
Mythological heaven	ELYSIUM
Nonnative Hawaiian	HAOLE
NSA wiretap challenger	ACLU
One scouring the junkyard	RUMMAGER
One using salt, perhaps	CURER
Pacific Coast or Alaska: Abbr.	HWY
Pianist Watts	ANDRE
Pot holder	CHEF
Prohibitive words	MUST NOT
Record collection	DATABASE
Rejoice	EXULT
Renaissance fiddle	REBEC
Riyadh natives	SAUDIS
Roombas, briefly	VACS
Rounded roof	DOME
Russian city east of Kiev	OREL
Sci-fi transport	HOVER CAR
Shakespearean prince	HAL
Sheltered at sea	ALEE
Shore thing	SAND
Sigma follower	TAU
Sister of Luke	LEIA
Snoopy-Red Baron conflict, e.g.	AIRWAR
South Korean president, 1948-1960	RHEE
Speaks for spirits	CHANNELS
Stereotypical computer whiz	NERD
Stiller's mom	MEARA
Storm harbinger	CLAP
Street ___	CRED
Subject of a 1989 international trade ban	IVORY
Sugar source	CANE
Swamp thing	REED
Sweden : Sverige ::Norway :__	NORGE
Take __: try the pool	A DIP
Tax season VIP	CPA
Tending to ooze	SEEPY
Unleaded?	DECAF
Unwilling to listen	DEAF
Valued geologic mass	ORE BODY
Violinist Louis who invented the chinrest	SPOHR
Way back when	AGES AGO
When Shabbat begins	FRIDAY
Where cruise ships go	TO SEA
Where or when attachment	EVER
Where some precious metal may be exchanged	ALTAR
Whiskered swimmer	OTTER
Word repeated before "sis"	RAH
Work on the road	PAVE