L.A. Times Daily - February 23 2018 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answers

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Feb 23 2018 Friday 

Clues	Answers
"__ very hard, and ... play very hard": Maya Angelou	I WORK
"__, then ... "	IF SO
"Cat on __ Tin Roof"	AHOT
"Forrest Gump" actor	SINISE
*Dog that really needs a bath?	GREASY HOUND
*Donkey that has mastered the hurdles?	JUMPING JACKASS
*Holiday employment schedule in "Animal Farm"?	ALLBEASTSAREOFF
*Offer to acquire a rising agent?	ILL GET YOU YEAST
__ Post: Nassau County, N.Y. school	LIU
__ toast	MELBA
AB negative, among blood types	RAREST
Any Beatle, say	BRITON
Baby food array	JARS
Best	OUTSTRIP
Big Ben feature	DIAL
Bit of aquatic life	ALGA
Bully	HECTOR
Cadillac compact	ATS
Causing to foam	FROTHING
Cockpit no.	ALT
Criteria: Abbr.	STDS
Del. winter hrs.	EST
Els on greens	ERNIE
Exile of 1979	AMIN
Friend of d'Artagnan	ATHOS
Give one final flicker	GO OUT
Greatly reduced sea	ARAL
Haunted house sound	WAIL
How land prices are often calculated	BY AREA
Hue of many Renaissance drawings	SEPIA
Hunter's need	PERMIT
It might be stuffed at home	CLOSET
Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr.	STE
Joie de vivre	ELAN
Lake Mich. state	IND
Lean (on)	RELY
Letters on a communications corp. logo	ATT
Like one who is beside oneself?	CLONED
Lockup	CITY JAIL
Long list substitute, briefly	ETC ETC
Marshy expanse	FEN
Med. recording	ECG
Most stale	OLDEST
Muddy abode	STY
Nutritional fig.	RDA
Odysseus' faithful dog	ARGOS
Old possessive	THY
One-fifth of MD	CCC
Org. with a tee in its logo	PGA
Pleasures shared by Churchill and Castro	CIGARS
Prepared	SET
Range with one end in Kazakhstan	URALS
Refreshing spot	OASIS
Regional animal groups	FAUNAS
Small batteries	AAS
Small figure wielding much force?	YODA
Sound on some San Francisco streets	CLANG
Spectacle	ECLAT
Stab	GUESS
Subway entrance	STILE
Swindle	CON
The Gray Lady of the press: Abbr.	NYT
Thompson of "Creed"	TESSA
Throaty	GUTTURAL
Trap during winter	ICEIN
Type sizes	PICAS
Unsullied	PURE
Voids	GAPS
Welsh actor Roger	REES
When required ... or a terse hint to solving the starred clues	AS NECESSARY
Where Simone Biles won four golds	RIO
Xperia maker	SONY