L.A. Times Daily - Aug 9 2015

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Clues Answers
"Dark side" sci-fi group SITH
"Dragonwyck" author SETON
"Expect great things" retailer KOHLS
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain" band, briefly CCR
"If I Only Had the Nerve" singer LAHR
"Lobster Telephone" artist DALI
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" piece ESSAY
"No worries, dude" IMCOOL
"Summer Nights" musical GREASE
"Take a chance!" TRYIT
"The Great Dictator" Oscar nominee OAKIE
"The Hunger Games" setting ARENA
"What a shame!" SOSAD
1997 film apiarist ULEE
88-Across feature TILDE
A lock may be in one KNOB
A lot OFTEN
Advent ONSET
Aerial stunt LOOP
Allergen survey? RAGWEEDPOLL
Artist's studio ATELIER
Available OPEN
Award-winning Disney animator Glen KEANE
Back biter? MOLAR
Belgian painter James ENSOR
Big blowout BLAST
Bond player before Dalton MOORE
Brand that includes Taster's Choice NESCAFE
Brief times SECS
Cabinet dept AGR
Calcutta Tech grad on "The Simpsons" APU
Carol contraction TIS
Casting aid ROD
Casual wear SLACKS
Cherished DEAR
Choose to play for pay GOPRO
Citation or Corsair EDSEL
Civilian attire MUFTI
Close again RESEAL
Condescending sort SNOB
Crime-fighting film cyborg ROBOCOP
De Gaulle's birth city LILLE
Deep depression CHASM
Digital jewelry TOERING
Does some bartending POURS
Dramatist Connelly MARC
Dry riverbed WADI
Dude BRO
During ALONG
Ensemble of eight in the score of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5" CELLOS
Establish a fresh foothold REROOT
Excitement ADO
Fast races DRAGS
Fr. holy woman STE
Fragrant resin BALSAM
French governing group SENAT
From __ Z ATO
Fury WRATH
Gals' gathering before the flick? CHICKDINNER
Glittery stone GEODE
Granny __ KNOT
Haggle DICKER
Hamlet, to Gertrude SON
Hankering YEN
Hoodwinks FOOLS
Identified NAMED
Ill will SPITE
Ill-fated woman? PANDORA
Ineffectual VAIN
Inept burger joint cook? BUNSBURNER
Invite to enter ASKIN
Iranian pilgrimage site QOM
Clues Answers
Islands staple TARO
Kay of "Rich Man, Poor Man" LENZ
Key for Satie? ILE
Kids' baseball card deal SWAP
Leavenworth locale: Abbr KAN
Lets out a bit LOOSENS
Level TIER
Like he-man push-ups ONEARM
Longtime Kentucky hoops coach RUPP
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist James THURBER
Lovelorn nymph ECHO
Maker of Veriton computers ACER
Mall draw SALE
Matches the scorecard, so to speak MAKESPAR
Mild smoke CLARO
Modern storage area, with "the" CLOUD
Money-saving, commercially ECONO
Most sacred HOLIEST
Mystery middle name CONAN
Narrow margin NOSE
No-nonsense route BEELINE
Not as experienced RAWER
Often-exaggerated tale SOBSTORY
One begins "Rhapsody in Blue" TRILL
Original D&D co TSR
Peace Nobelist Cassin RENE
Perfect IDEAL
Pet parasite treatment FLEADIP
Poor, chance-wise SLIM
Potpourri pieces PETALS
Prefix with centric ETHNO
Prospector's pooch? GOLDRETRIEVER
Pull with effort TUGAT
React to humidity, in a way DROOP
Reason for wobbling, perhaps HEELS
Registered, with "in" SANK
River of Tuscany ARNO
Rye buy LOAF
Sacred structure SHRINE
Sales pitch for an Austrian pistol? GLOCKSPIEL
Sch. in Ames ISU
Scintilla SHRED
Seasonally decorated doorways? FALLARCHES
Shredded TORE
Sight from Taormina ETNA
Sign on a B'way booth TKTS
Small amount PINCH
Snake looking scared? QUAKINGASP
Some fitness ctrs YMCAS
Speaker's output AUDIO
Supercilious sort SNOOT
SWAT team supply TEARGAS
Sword-wielding legend ZORRO
Tabloid pic subject UFO
The Amish, e.g SECT
The Clintons, notably YALIES
Thing of the past RELIC
Thing to set ALARM
Throws wildly, say ERRS
Tijuana title SENOR
Took off to team up ELOPED
Tourist attraction MECCA
Uncultivated area in Roseanne's back forty? BARRWASTELAND
Victim of curiosity CAT
Viewpoint ANGLE
Viewpoints SLANTS
Was fairly successful DIDOK
Wasatch Mountains resort ALTA
Weather reporters MAPS
Whittle (down) PARE
Year's record ANNAL
__ shirt ALOHA