L.A. Times Sunday - Aug 23 2009

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Clues Answers
"Klute" director Pakula ALAN
"Open up!" LETMEIN
"Silas Marner" author ELIOT
"Stand By Me" singer ___ King BENE
"Take ___!" AHIKE
"___ be!" GLORY
007: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you ___!" TODIE
A mirage does it SHIMMERS
Able to go, perhaps FREE
Ace hiding place SLEEVE
Add TACKON
Addressed SPOKETO
Approaches NEARS
Art prints LITHOS
Ashtray buildup BUTTS
Athlete's greeting to the camera HIMOM
Bad dancer's target TOE
Badge consideration MERIT
Bar orders BREWS
Barbecue sauce flavor MESQUITE
Bearcat maker STUTZ
Bit of mistletoe or holly SPRIG
Bit of wit JEST
Board game for kids that's actually painful to play? STINGOPERATION
Board game played with no vowels? HARDSCRABBLE
Board game that takes all week to play? LONGTERMRISK
Board game that's playable online only? VIRTUALMONOPOLY
Board game where you have no car, no kids, no luck, and no money? UNEVENTFULLIFE
Board game where you might hear, "Colonel Ecru, with the riata, in the oda"? CROSSWORDCLUE
Buc, Vike, Card, or Phil PRO
Buzz of note ALDRIN
Call for help SOS
Campus VIP, in headlines PREXY
Card game SKAT
Carnival performer GEEK
Carnival-ride activator LEVER
Certain Arab OMANI
Certain terminals ANODES
Cheat DEFRAUD
Cleaner of locks? SHAMPOO
Commit a deadly sin COVET
Concerning INRE
Cook, fast-food-style FRY
Core of monotheism ONEGOD
Cow's hurdle, perhaps MOON
Cowboy wear BOOTS
Cracklin' ___ Bran OAT
Dawn goddess EOS
Decrease EBB
Deteriorate GOTOPOT
Discussion group PANEL
Driving maneuver UTURN
Everett of "Citizen Kane" SLOANE
Financing abbr. APR
Fourth down option PUNT
French cafe sweetener SUCRE
Gathered leaves RAKED
Gloats RUBSITIN
Greenbacks MOOLAH
Grist for the gossip mill DIRT
Guatemala guy SENOR
Guy's nickname LES
Guys DUDES
Hansom fellow HACK
Has too much of, with "on" ODS
Hellenic H ETA
Hit man? BOXER
Holliday companion EARP
In on, with "to" PRIVY
Clues Answers
Jigsaw puzzle unit PIECE
Joint that's good for the joints SPA
Just about the hardest (and least sanitary) game ever, unless you're an anteater? TONGUETWISTER
L.A. soccer team of the 1980s LAZERS
Landed ALIT
Lateral opening? UNI
Less dull KEENER
Like a Christmas tree, maybe LITUP
Like some fins or muscles PECTORAL
Lumberjack LOGGER
Lying face-up SUPINE
Macho guys HEMEN
Marine museum AQUARIUM
Marshy areas FENS
Mattel toy KEN
Missay, as lines MUFF
Mozart's birthplace AUSTRIA
Normal elasticity TONE
Obtain GET
Occupant du trГґne ROI
Offspring YOUNG
Old calculators ABACI
On one's way OFF
One of Charlton's many sans-pants parts MOSES
Outlaw BAN
Oz visitor's makeup TIN
Part danced by Nijinsky in a Debussy classic THEFAUN
Part of Smith Barney's old slogan EARNIT
Peculiar ODD
Phone for a pizza, e.g. ORDERIN
Plumlike fruit SLOE
Plus AND
Poolroom ploy MASSE
Potter and pals WIZARDS
Prepare for takeoff TAXI
Princess Leia ___ ORGANA
Pull ___ ABONER
Repeat verbatim QUOTE
Scoff (at) JEER
Screen or teen sensation IDOL
Second largest city in 59 Down GRAZ
See 54 Across QUAT
Serious bacteria ECOLI
Shining like a disco ball AGLINT
Shipworm, e.g. BORER
Silent OK NOD
Singer portrayed by Jennifer Lopez SELENA
Snoop Dogg tune, "In Love with ___" ATHUG
Soaked through SODDEN
Speech center of the brain, ___'s area BROCA
Spill it BLAB
Stick (to) ADHERE
Stock ending? ADE
Tampa or San Francisco PORT
Toper who knows Opie OTIS
Toss HEAVE
Tropical fruit PAPAYA
Turn suddenly SWERVE
TV's "little buddy" GILLIGAN
Vast expanses OCEANS
Very alluring FOXY
Well-heeled types HAVES
Went around, in baseball SWUNG
Winning gesture VSIGN
With 26 Across, an herbicide PARA
Word on a maze START
___ acid BORIC
___ Lanka SRI
___ new record SETA