L.A. Times Daily - Mar 16 2018

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Clues Answers
"Sneak Previews" co-host EBERT
*Baseball position STOPSHORT
*Basketball strategy BREAKFAST
*Prepares to pass the football BACKDROPS
*Strokes in tennis HEADSOVER
100 percent PURELY
Aerobic regime, familiarly CARDIO
Amino acid used in protein biosynthesis ALANINE
Barnyard rooter PIG
Big cat PUMA
Big haulers MACKS
Bodily passage ITER
Butyl acetate, e.g ESTER
Capital east of Lake Victoria NAIROBI
Card in a baby straight TREY
Casual negative NAH
Caustic remark BARB
Clumsy one OAF
Comedic pianist Victor BORGE
Corporate machinery, e.g ASSET
Cover charge relative USERFEE
Crossed a picket line SCABBED
Curator's deg MFA
Derby VIPs JOCKEYS
Diner devices, familiarly JUKES
Empty BARE
Fair play? ... or the key to understanding the answers to starred clues TURNABOUT
Fellows LADS
Fifth pillar of Islam HAJJ
First __ AID
Gaucho's weapon BOLA
Graphic novel artist INKER
Hair adornments BOWS
Hardy heroine TESS
Hospital fluids SERA
Intestinal tract division ILEUM
Is connected TIESIN
It may be payable monthly DEBT
Clues Answers
Lawyer to avoid SHYSTER
Like racehorses SHOD
Mae West persona VAMP
Many a Black Friday worker TEMP
Mascara target LASH
Modern concert conveniences ETICKETS
Moises of the 2002-'04 Cubs ALOU
Natural environment HABITAT
Network admin SYSOP
Niagara Falls source ERIE
Old hat DATED
One of many seen at the NCAA's Frozen Four ICESKATE
Orch. section STR
Pestle partners MORTARS
Piccadilly Circus statue EROS
Playground retort CANSO
Pranks DIDOS
Prefix with industry AGRO
Primer application ONECOAT
Puts on a patch, say SEWS
Puts to rest ENTOMBS
Realize NET
Religious leader RABBI
Requested at a drive-thru ORDERED
Salt Lake daily, familiarly TRIB
Schmoozing sort GABBER
Shocks, in a way TASES
Smidgen DRIB
Stellar phenomenon NOVA
Sweeping VAST
Turned on the waterworks WEPT
Two-timer CAD
Unwavering SURE
Uppity sort SNOOT
Wagner's "Die __" WALKURE
Water__: dental brand PIK
Went like racehorses TORE
Word with idea or luck ANY