L.A. Times Daily - May 18 2008

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"...__ restaurants with oyster-shells": Eliot SAWDUST
"Charleston Rag" composer Blake EUBIE
"Grazie" response PREGO
"Othello" fellow IAGO
"Psych!" NOT
"Speak!" response ARF
"The Girl from Ipanema" singer Gilberto ASTRUD
"Would __ to you?" ILIE
"__ the Woods" INTO
'70s-'80s Illinois senator Stevenson ADLAI
15-Down, old-style SMIT
1939 56-Down Western DESTRYRIDESAGAIN
1946 56-Down drama ITSAWONDERFULLIFE
1953 56-Down Western THENAKEDSPUR
1958 56-Down comedy BELLBOOKANDCANDLE
1958 56-Down thriller VERTIGO
1959 56-Down drama ANATOMYOFAMURDER
1988 Heisman winner Barry SANDERS
4:00 p.m., maybe TEATIME
50-and-over group AARP
Actor born 5/20/1908 JAMESSTEWART
Actress Watts NAOMI
Advantage EDGE
AFL affiliate CIO
Aggressive sort HAWK
Appetizing TASTY
Attempt STAB
Band aid AMP
Be mellowed by charm MELT
Before ERE
Beyond repair TOTALED
Blind part SLAT
Cannon of film DYAN
Caspian country IRAN
Cause for penitence SIN
Cell "messenger" RNA
City SE of Medicine Bow LARAMIE
City up the coast from Calais DUNKIRK
Claudius I's successor NERO
Co-discoverer of cosmic rays Victor HESS
Cubist Fernand LEGER
Depend (on) RELY
Diamond disorder, e.g. RHUBARB
Dropped off SLEPT
Emit, as a sigh HEAVE
Enya fan, perhaps NEWAGER
Execs' cars, often PERKS
Far-reaching VAST
Feudal lord LIEGE
Film critic Judith CRIST
Fishing apparel with lots of pockets VEST
Fizzled out ENDED
Forensic show CSI
Former VOA overseer USIA
Gaga INLOVE
Gin and tonic garnishes LIMES
Goon APE
Gopher or gerbil RODENT
Guzzled product GAS
Hadden's partner in Time LUCE
Hail, to Caesar AVE
Household ladder, to Liverpudlians STEPS
Inclined surface GRADIENT
Inn hire MAID
Inner Hebrides isle SKYE
It's between Pisces and Taurus ARIES
It's extracted ORE
Its numbers range from 1 to 80 KENO
Japanese musical drama NOH
Kind of game or show ROAD
Kournikova of tennis ANNA
Lackluster DRAB
Clues Answers
Latin list ender ETAL
Leaked from a faucet DRIPT
Least taxing EASIEST
Legal aide, briefly PARA
Like ospreys TALONED
Marlin's son, in film NEMO
Mideast sultanate OMAN
Much of "Jeopardy!" ASKING
Multi-channel audio system STEREO
N.Y. commuter org. MTA
Navel fibers LINT
Nothing but MERE
Novelist Roberts NORA
October War president SADAT
Old Mississippi flatboat ARK
Old self-titled talk show GERALDO
One following a cab? SEMI
One-of-a-kind ONLY
Ostrich, e.g. BIPED
Paper buyers READERS
Part of a Schubert song cycle LIED
Perfume holder VIAL
Phone booth stuffing, e.g. FAD
Pierce or Polk: Abbr. DEM
Pilgrimage mecca SW of Tehran QOM
Plant inspection expert BOTANIST
Portmanteau word BLEND
Prefix meaning "recent" NEO
Presided over CHAIRED
Put in overtime WORKLATE
Quipster WAG
Quite bright APT
Rainier and Shasta: Abbr. MTS
Read but didn't post, at a Web forum LURKED
River floater TUBE
River herrings SHAD
Robotic space probe VOYAGER
Rolls of fabric BOLTS
Royal Botanic Gardens locale KEW
Sentimental link TIE
Shell games SCAMS
Short person's savior? ATM
Short sentence about a long term IDO
Side (with) ALIGN
Sidestepped SKIRTED
Sistine Chapel ceiling figure ADAM
Soda POP
Some hunters' quarries GHOSTS
Space traveler STARSHIP
Spice Girl Halliwell GERI
Stewed POTTED
Strove VIED
Swab QTIP
Sword handle HAFT
Temporal language element TENSE
Teutonic invader GOTH
Thermostat feature DIAL
Thomas Moore's home ERIN
Turner Field player BRAVE
Turning meas. RPM
Tweaks ADJUSTS
Two, for one INTEGER
US 101 & 66 RTES
Utility workers LINEMEN
Whiter shade of pale ASHEN
Wild harangue RANT
Winter Olympics event LUGE
With affected reluctance COYLY
Write further ADD
[Gasp!] OHNO
__ Paulo SAO
__-relief BAS