L.A. Times Daily - Sep 11 2008

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Clues Answers
"Alas!" relatives OYS
"¿Cómo __ usted?" ESTA
"Compromising Positions" author ISAACS
"I have an idea!" AHA
"I've Grown Accustomed __ Face" TOHER
"The Garden of Earthly Delights" painter BOSCH
"__ hooks": cargo caution USENO
1915 Harry Carey film, with "The" GAMBLERSIOU
Abdicator of 1917 TSAR
Adolph of publishing OCHS
Appeal to a higher authority? PRAY
Baghdad's river TIGRIS
Calendar pg. OCT
Canon camera EOS
Cholesterol letters LDL
Chuck roast option CROSSRIB
Classic opener NEO
Collectible Camaro IROC
Conductor __-Pekka Salonen ESA
Cry of distress HELPME
Deed ACT
Do-or-die poker bet ALLIN
Eastern Mediterranean port HAIFA
Fat unit GRAM
Floor concern SCUFFS
Formula One team that's a rival of Ferrari MCLAREN
Get in a lather SOAPUP
Go off ERUPT
Hardwood trees TEAKS
Hip dude CAT
Initials at sea HMS
Islamic prophet MUHAMMAD
It's bottled in Cannes EAU
Kidding but not kidding HALFSERIOUS
Lesley of "60 Minutes" STAHL
Little, in Lille PEU
Lots ATON
Clues Answers
Mach 2 breaker SST
Massage RUB
Maternally related ENATE
Michael of R.E.M. STIPE
Morales of "La Bamba" ESAI
Needle holder FIR
Nonpro sports gp. AAU
Novel postscript EPILOG
Oft-mistyped possessive ITS
Old pronouns THOUS
Outer opening ECTO
Peak CREST
Pequod captain AHAB
Pt. of TGIF FRI
Roman Catholic org. KOFC
Roy Rogers's birth name SLYE
Rudy Robles's Calif. birthplace, in a 1987 comedy EASTLA
Sad cases PATHETICSOULS
Seedy SHABBY
Sequence found in this puzzle's five longest answers AEIOU
Shake a leg HIE
Shape of St. Anthony's Cross TAU
Silkscreen aid STENCIL
Simba, at first MALELIONCUB
Smart remarks? SASS
Some Caltech grads EES
Square dance partner GAL
Substitutes for forgotten words LAS
Survived MADEITTHROUGH
Taken out, in a way ONLOAN
Tiny Tim, for one FALSETTO
Tramp's choice LADY
Trumpet player nicknamed Jumbo ALHIRT
Vatican vestment ALB
Vault LEAP
Weapons that need to be fixed? BAYONETS
__ Reader UTNE