other Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 30 (contains answers)

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Title: Creative Proposition
Theme entries: two-word phrases redefined as though they were three words, the middle word being “pro,” related to a job or career

Examples:
31A, McEnroe antics?: NET PROFITS (net pro fits)
69D, Milker’s collection tube?: DAIRY PRODUCT (dairy pro duct)

Things I learned, with web links so you can learn them too:

18A, Diva Mitchell: LEONA
24A, Runner of myth: ATALANTA [note the connection to the Medea/Argo entry below]
35A, Actor Herbert: LOM
78A, Country’s McCoy: NEAL
96A, “Patterns” poet Lowell: AMY
101A, Teeny bit: SKOSH [I would have guessed Yiddish, not Japanese]
110A, Trattoria treat: TORTONI
123A, Waterloo fighter: PRUSSIAN [see, I always thought Wellington won that shit by himself; I’m sure people educated in continental Europe hear it differently]
1D, Ashcan School painter: SLOAN
10D, Scuttled WWII ship: GRAF SPEE
85D, Genteelness: POLITESSE
94D, Farquhar innkeeper: BONIFACE
100D, Jacques of deconstruction: DERRIDA
116D, Reasons to sue: TORTS [I’ve never known what this word actually meant]
118D, Medea rode in it: ARGO [I can never get interested enough into this story to retain its details or characters]

Overall:
I changed only one square (but I got two wrong) and looked up 15 things.