L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Nov 23, 2014

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Nov 23, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Beg pardon ..."	AHEM
"Borstal Boy" author Brendan	BEHAN
"Desire Under the Elms" playwright	ONEILL
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" lyricist	CARA
"Gunsmoke" star	ARNESS
"Not so fast!"	WHOA
"O, that way madness lies" speaker	LEAR
"Punch buggy" in a car trip game	VWBEETLE
"Stop"	NOMORE
"Ta ta!"	CIAO
"The Mod Squad" role	LINC
"__-Tiki"	KON
*2003 romantic comedy with multiple story lines	LOVEACTUALLY
*Amy Dickinson, for one	ADVICECOLUMNIST
*Botticelli on display in the Uffizi	BIRTHOFVENUS
*Friends for life	BLOODBROTHERS
*Space mission team	GROUNDCONTROL
2012 U.S. Women's Open winner Na Yeon __	CHOI
35-Across, briefly	TMI
Acted hastily	RUSHED
Ad writer's award	CLIO
Addressee of two New Testament epistles	TIMOTHY
Art in a parlor	TAT
Bakery purchase	ROLL
Basilica area	APSE
Big initials in nutritional supplements	GNC
Bit of inline skating gear	KNEEPAD
Blowups: Abbr	ENLS
Book jacket part	FLAP
Bygone Fords	LTDS
Calendar list, briefly	SKED
Carry on	WAGE
Christiane Amanpour's network	CNN
City near the Amalfi Coast	SALERNO
Colleague of Ruth and Sonia	ELENA
Coming up soon	ONTAP
Cycle beginning	TRI
Danger sign	REDFLAG
Designer Wang	VERA
Driving force?	ENGINE
Drought-prone	ARID
Emilia's husband	IAGO
End-of-letter letters	ENC
Event that kicks off shopping for 119-Across	BLACKFRIDAY
Far-away connection?	AND
Fashion monogram	YSL
Fertilizer ingredient	PEAT
Festive time	THEHOLIDAYS
Fight (for)	VIE
Focus of some searching?	SOUL
Folks	PARENTS
Footnote word	IDEM
Fringe	EDGE
Frisco squad	NINERS
Funereal ring	KNELL
Genesis wife	LEAH
Getting one's feet wet	WADING
GI on the run	AWOL
Giraffe kin	OKAPI
Goblet parts	STEMS
Grand-scale tale	EPIC
Grass units	BLADES
Harbor a grudge against	RESENT
Hebrew for "my master"	RABBI
Hit the dirt?	SCRUB
Important theme for 119-Across, and a word that can be used with the starts of the answers to the starred clues	GIVING
Indian tea	CHAI
Insurance __	AGENCY
Interstate H-1 locale	OAHU
Iron-rich cabbage	KALE
Island east of Java	BALI
Jones of song	CASEY
Keep mum	CLAMUP
Knock for __	ALOOP
Large body of eau	MER
Layered cut	SHAG
Leaf	PAGE
Less cordial	ICIER
Loud speaker	ORATOR
Low voice	BASSO
Manicurist's concern	CUTICLE
Many a Balkan	SLAV
Map collection	ATLAS
Massachusetts resort	CAPEANN
Michelob beer	ULTRA
Nile cobras	ASPS
Nonexpert	LAY
Not yours, in Tours	AMOI
Nothing but	MERE
Novelist Waugh	ALEC
On __ basis	ATRIAL
Particular	ITEM
Passé players, briefly	VCRS
Pasture	LEA
Pays to stay	RENTS
Personal quirks	TICS
Pink hue	MELON
Player	ATHLETE
Polish writing	EDIT
Potala Palace city	LHASA
Prefix with gram	EPI
Put an __: terminate	ENDTO
Put out to sea	SAIL
Qualifying suffix	ISH
Rams' home	STLOUIS
Refuse	TRASH
Rock 'n' roll era dance	SOCKHOP
Salad dressing ingredient	VINEGAR
Saturate	SOAK
Scarf securer	BROOCH
Seasonal worker?	ELF
Sharp	ACID
Sicily, to Sicilians	ISOLA
Sioux language featured in "Dances With Wolves"	LAKOTA
Skipping nothing	FROMATOZ
Sports shoe with a Cantilever heel	AVIA
Spots for holsters	HIPS
Stands the test of time	LASTS
Start to commute?	TELE
State that declared its independence in 2008	KOSOVO
Strength	ASSET
Stylish eatery word	CHEZ
SUNY city on Lake Ontario	OSWEGO
Super	AONE
Super Bowl XLIV MVP	BREES
Sure bet	LOCK
Sushi-grade tuna	AHI
Temporarily out, in baseball lingo	ONTHEDL
They're often grad students	TAS
Tight-knit group	CLAN
Timberlake's old band	NSYNC
Unlikely lawyer in a 1992 film title	VINNY
Unlikely to speak up	MOUSY
Unnerving sound on a hiking trail	RATTLE
Verbal shrug	MEH
Vice __	VERSA
Well-chosen	APT
Westernmost Texas county	ELPASO
Wood pattern	GRAIN
Work hard	MOIL
Work on a bust	SCULPT
Year in Italy	ANNO
__ Kippur	YOM
__ of influence	SPHERE