L.A. Times Daily - Sep 11 2009

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Clues Answers
"Little Women" author ALCOTT
"Swan Lake" heroine ODETTE
"The Three Tenors" tenor with José and Plácido LUCIANO
"We know drama" station TNT
"Whip It" band DEVO
Arraignment response PLEA
Batting stat. AVG
Bavarian title FRAU
Car bomb? EDSEL
Charge FEE
Chic ELEGANT
Coffeecake topping STREUSEL
Conductor Toscanini ARTURO
Cork's home EIRE
Darkening time in verse EEN
Dealer's adversary NARC
Debt-heavy corp. deal LBO
Delicate spring roll wrapping RICEPAPER
Dolt AIRHEAD
Elec. text-reading method OCR
ER personnel RNS
Fancy-schmancy POSH
Fishing nets SEINES
Foreword, briefly INTRO
Fountain treat MALTED
Four-handed piano piece by a French emperor? NAPOLEONDUET
Franks' conquest GAUL
Fur source ERMINE
Future officers CADETS
Gap LACUNA
Giant among Giants OTT
Give a hand AID
Hardly emulated the 16-Across SLEPTLATE
Hardy partner LAUREL
Harem room ODA
How references may be available, in a résumé ONREQUEST
Impudent PERT
Inundated ENGULFED
It has 100 seats SENATE
Clues Answers
Key in which "Chopsticks" is usually played CMAJOR
La Scala highlight ARIA
Lackawanna's Lake ERIE
Like a choice between evils NOWIN
Makes amends ATONES
Movie gigolo Bigalow struggling with debt? DEUCEINTHEHOLE
Multitasking, but just barely? DOUBLEMINDED
N-R connectors OPQ
NFL scores TDS
Norse war god TYR
Not quite Barcelona's best? NUMERODOS
Not strict about, as crime SOFTON
Olympic perfection TEN
One in an international septet EUROPE
Opening hymn words OLORD
Ovoid tree nuts ACORNS
Picked hair styles, briefly FROS
Prefix with sphere TROPO
Proverbial worm catcher EARLYBIRD
Puts away STORES
R.E. Lee, e.g. GENL
Restaurant special, and a hint to this puzzle's theme TWOFORONE
Sch. with a Phoenix campus ASU
Seat of Montana's Silver Bow County BUTTE
Shirk one's duty, in a big way DESERT
Skeleton's place? CLOSET
SPCA part: Abbr. SOC
Spitting sound, in comics PTUI
Stampeding group HERD
Start a pot ANTE
Support provider? BRA
Swear falsely, with "oneself" PERJURE
Tennis great Lew who won three of the four majors in 1956 HOAD
Thurman of "Pulp Fiction" UMA
Versatile vehicle, for short UTE
Wrong thing to do SIN
Yank's foe REB
Zooks lead-in? GAD