L.A. Times Magazine - May 25 2008

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Clues Answers
"Chinatown" gumshoe JAKE
"Don't Bring Me Down" band ELO
"Friend ___?" ORFOE
"Have a piece!" TRYONE
"No kiddin'!" GEE
"___ am a sinful man" (Luke 5:8) FORI
"___ impossible" ITS
-ish alternative ESE
1954 song ("okay, but it won't be easy") FLYMETOTHEMOON
1955 hit song ("okay, but it won't be easy") CRYMEARIVER
1958 hit song ("okay, but it won't be easy") CATCHAFALLINGSTAR
1959 show tune ("okay, but it won't be easy") CLIMBEVRYMOUNTAIN
1965 hit song ("okay, but it won't be easy") MAKETHEWORLDGOAWAY
1991 rock tune ("okay, but it won't be easy") WALKONTHEOCEAN
1992 pop song ("okay, but it won't be easy") SAVEUPALLYOURTEARS
Abbreviation of appreciation THX
Actor Montand YVES
Actor Yaphet KOTTO
Afternoon affair TEA
Agcy. estab. in 1862 IRS
Ahead of time EARLY
Anat., e.g. SCI
Aphrodite loved him ADONIS
Appeared SEEMED
Author Kesey KEN
Banquet DINNER
Bell ringer TOLLER
Bible verb HATH
Bible vessels ARKS
Bills CASH
Blade maker GILLETTE
Body section TORSO
Boll's I ICH
Brat's target SHIN
Brief freedom? LIB
Building wing ELL
Bullfighters, once TOREADORS
Cameo stone ONYX
Catchall abbr. ETC
Certain noncom: abbr. MSGT
City NE of Sacramento ROSEVILLE
Cleans quickly RINSES
Climactic opening? ANTI
Cousteau's milieu MER
D.C. type POL
Datebook datum: abbr. APPT
Dean of best-sellers KOONTZ
Decennial event CENSUS
Deep as ___ AWELL
Drove (along) TOOLED
Dry white Italian wine SOAVE
Eclipse shadows UMBRAS
Egyptian bigwig MUBARAK
Ellipse-determining points FOCI
Enter a soapbox derby? ORATE
Experience anew RELIVE
Fishing need LINE
Flees (town) SKIPS
Fridge features ICEMAKERS
Furrow STRIA
Good sign? HALO
Green-curry cuisine THAI
Guy on the Ponderosa set LORNE
Hawaiian city HILO
He dressed Grace and Marilyn OLEG
Hit the links PLAYGOLF
Hooch, humorously FIREWATER
Hope for addicts DETOX
Hot tub sounds AHS
Identity query WHO
In a mousy way MEEKLY
Clues Answers
In a nimble manner SPRYLY
Influence AFFECT
Ingot stuff, in 45 Down ORO
Is up BATS
It's a rising thing YEAST
Jason's ship ARGO
Larry's producer on "The Larry Sanders Show" ARTIE
LBJ VP HHH
Like the '20s ROARING
Like the sky HIGH
Lion's share's opposite LEAST
Listen to again, as a case REHEAR
Louisiana soups GUMBOS
Love god EROS
Malingerers FAKERS
Mangle MAIM
Mausoleum's front? TAJ
Mexican state SONORA
Mind numbers IQS
MIT grad, perh. ENGR
Most egregious WORST
Mustard's rank: abbr. COL
N.Y.C. tourist attraction MOMA
Needlefish GAR
Neet rival NAIR
O'Hara's home TARA
One of Joan of Arc's crimes HERESY
Online address, familiarly URL
Opera about a diva TOSCA
Opinions VIEWS
Oscillates, as a projectile YAWS
Outback sight EMU
Part of DOS SYSTEM
Person with a whip TAMER
Petal perfumes ATTARS
Prompt CUE
Reed you can read REX
Remove dowels (from) UNPEG
Remus, e.g. UNCLE
Roanoke's Virginia DARE
Roughage FIBER
Saucer people ALIENS
Scold BERATE
Singer Sumac YMA
Site of a 2007 surge IRAQ
Sleeveless garments VESTS
Soccer ___ MOM
Some six-packs CANS
Spoil a surprise PEEK
St. Louis to Louisville EAST
Stiffly theatrical STAGY
Straightened (out) IRONED
Swan lady LEDA
Swedish name that's an Indian name backward IVAR
Tailor's concern FIT
Take hold SETIN
Tear RIP
The Hindenburg, e.g. ZEPPELIN
The woman in the song "Woman" ONO
Time-stamp anew REDATE
Tomato sauce brand RAGU
Touches repeatedly with a towel PATSDRY
Transpired OCCURRED
Warm coat PARKA
Wear away ERODE
What dendro- means TREE
Within: pref. ENDO
Witness words IDO
___ hog WART
___ kwon do TAE
___ up (hits a shallow fly) POPSIT