L.A. Times Daily - Aug 16 2009

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Clues Answers
"All Things Considered" airer NPR
"C'est magnifique!" OOLALA
"Darn it!" RATS
"Eating __ has never given me indigestion": Churchill WORDS
"Golly" GEE
"I'll do it for __" AFEE
"In My Own Fashion" autobiographer CASSINI
"Le Roi d'Ys" composer LALO
"Ready __ ..." ORNOT
"Veni, vidi, vici," e.g. BOAST
1066 battle site HASTINGS
Actor Davis OSSIE
Adm.'s milieu USN
Anchor Couric KATIE
Anticipates in a big way DROOLS
Baseball family name ALOU
Bat opening ACRO
Be slain by a stand-up comic? DIELAUGHING
Behind DERRIERE
Belgrade natives SERBS
Brainy CEREBRAL
Bring about INDUCE
Brown of song LEROY
Computer acronym ASCII
Conference USA's Miners UTEP
Connected to the hipbone ILIAC
Contract terms, at times LEGALESE
Cry WEEP
Cry of accomplishment TADA
Daily agenda TODOLIST
Danish shoe brand ECCO
Dash, for one RACE
Desert phenomenon DRYLAKE
Desktop figure ICON
Digestion aid ACID
DoD division NSA
Driver's warning, perhaps DASHLIGHT
Dundee denials NAES
Entertainment system STEREO
Equine gait TROT
Exhausted SPENT
Family nickname DAD
Fen-__: banned diet aid PHEN
Getting unauthorized R&R? AWOL
Given as compensation PAIDTO
Go __: agree ALONG
Grounded fliers SSTS
Guitar inlay material NACRE
Haggis ingredient SUET
Hair piece TRESS
Hall of Famer Slaughter ENOS
Handicapper's hangout, briefly OTB
Has a few too many TOPES
Henry James biographer Leon EDEL
Hgts. ALTS
Hole in the head SINUS
Indian tourist city AGRA
It may be periodic TABLE
It's no longer spoken anywhere DEADLANGUAGE
Italian scooter VESPA
Leer or sneer DIRTYLOOK
Length of time DURATION
Let off steam VENTED
Like "aardvark," e.g. DUTCH
Like an albatross OCEANIC
Like many signers DEAF
Like most church services SOLEMN
Lunch initials BLT
Make fun of SATIRIZE
Make pictures DRAW
Mariners' park, familiarly SAFECO
Marseilles crowd? TROIS
Clues Answers
Marx collaborator ENGELS
Mesopotamia border river TIGRIS
Mil. decorations DSCS
More than great SUPER
Mount of Greek myth OSSA
Murray offering DANCELESSON
Narrow loaf BAGUETTE
National League division EAST
Old burners in a lab ETNAS
Old United rival TWA
Olden days YORE
One of Willie Mays's 20 in 1957 TRIPLE
Onetime members of the Winnebago Nation OTOES
Online bulletin board runner SYSOP
Opposing teams SIDES
Oxygen-consuming bacterium AEROBE
Piston pusher CAM
Place to sign DOTTEDLINE
Precook, in a way SEAR
Profound DEEP
Public place, in a phobia AGORA
QB's misthrow INT
Queen's neighbor? BISHOP
Rebuke silently GLAREAT
Recede EBB
Refinery residue SLAG
Restless desire ITCH
Romain de Tirtoff, famously ERTE
Romanov leaders CZARS
Russian for "peace" MIR
Ryan of TV's "Peyton Place" ONEAL
SAS destination OSLO
Second century date CII
She played Thelma GEENA
Show uncertainty HESITATE
Singer DiFranco ANI
Skin coloring? TATTOOS
So out it's in RETRO
Some operators: Abbr. MDS
Some pop groups TRIOS
Soothsayer SIBYL
Spirit in le ciel ANGE
Syrup, essentially TREESAP
Take __ ABOW
Tempe sch. ASU
Temporarily not playing, in baseball lingo (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) ONTHEDL
Term of endearment BABY
The ghost of Mrs. Muir? SPECTRE
Third-winningest active baseball manager TORRE
Three Dog Night hit written by Nilsson ONE
Thriller hero, often SPY
Toots BEEPS
Toulouse evening SOIR
Ukr. et al., once SSRS
Upper East Side NYC eatery ELAINES
Vietnam War program DRAFTLOTTERY
Visa user DEBTOR
Web sellers ETAILERS
What spies often lead DOUBLELIFE
Winning or losing run STREAK
Woody's son ARLO
Words after pass and raise THEBAR
Workplace protection org. OSHA
WWI French soldier POILU
Wyoming city CODY
Zip NIL
__ Bator ULAN
__ IRA ROTH
__ Lanka SRI
__ roses BEDOF
__-France ILEDE
__Kosh B'Gosh OSH