L.A. Times Daily - Oct 11 2009

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Clues Answers
"Actor Laurie goes after you"? HUGHSNEXT
"Cats" cat Rum __ Tugger TUM
"Family Ties" mom ELYSE
"Later!" CIAO
"Mr. Chicago" journalist Kupcinet IRV
"Portnoy's Complaint" author ROTH
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights" speaker GETTY
"Too Ra Loo Ra Loo __": Irish classic RAL
"What an exhausting day!" IMBEAT
1-Across, e.g. BIOPIC
1987 film about Ritchie Valens LABAMBA
Accustoms ENURES
Act out in charades MIME
Ahab or his craft WHALER
Airheads DUMBOS
Ancient mystic ESSENE
AOL and MSN ISPS
Ate too much, as chips ODEDON
Banishment EXILE
Bedrock pet DINO
Bern's river AARE
Birthplace of St. Francis ASSISI
Blue Ribbon brewer PABST
Braves' div. NLE
Breaks a promise RENEGES
Brink EDGE
Brother of Moe and Curly SHEMP
Brush hairs BRISTLES
Cappuccino request DECAF
Caught in the act SEEN
Central: Prefix MID
Chocoholic desserts MUDPIES
Clinch, with "up" SEW
Coastal Norse horse? FJORDMUSTANG
Comfy footwear MOC
Cousin of calypso SKA
Creep JERK
Cub Scout leader AKELA
Dance parts STEPS
Declines SAYSNO
Designer Christian doing a pirouette? REVOLVINGDIOR
Diner's decision ORDER
Done to __: repeated too often DEATH
Dutch export TULIPS
End of __ ANERA
Equally bizarre ASODD
Excellent NIFTY
Expected to arrive DUEIN
Felix the neatnik UNGER
Former Vietnamese president's dining reservation? TABLEFORTHIEU
French seasoning SEL
Fresh NEW
Garage job LUBE
Glad HAPPY
Gorgeous newborns? BABYBEAUTIES
Grazing ground LEA
Gusto ELAN
Hardly figurative LITERAL
Haywire AWRY
Hip-hoppers Salt-N-__ PEPA
Honeydew, e.g. MELON
How some stunts are done ONADARE
Humorist Bombeck ERMA
Hurrying INARUSH
Hydrocarbon suffix ANE
Iditarod vehicle DOGSLED
Impassioned ARDENT
In __: stuck AJAM
Invite for a nightcap ASKIN
Isaac's eldest ESAU
Clues Answers
Jack's fairy tale victim GIANT
John, Paul and John Paul POPES
José's "today" HOY
Keystone Cops creator Sennett MACK
Late '70s Wimbledon headline? BJORNAGAIN
Leaves port SAILS
Lhasa native TIBETAN
Like musically challenged ears? TIN
Lith., e.g., once SSR
Lives RESIDES
Long haul TREK
Martin/Tomlin comedy ALLOFME
Mass communications? PRAYERS
Mass. senator's monogram, 1962-2009 EMK
Mature on the vine RIPEN
Medicinal shrub SENNA
N.L. career stolen base leader Lou BROCK
Narrow waterway: Abbr. STR
NFL ball carriers RBS
NFL Hall of Famer Marchetti GINO
Nobleman's address MILORD
Oily compound used in dyes ANILINE
Old Mideast assn. UAR
On one's rocker? SANE
Ongoing dispute about chemical use in farming? ORGANICFEUD
Osso __ BUCO
PC component CRT
Personal: Prefix IDIO
Philip of "Kung Fu" AHN
Pioneering electronic calculators CASIOS
Pool tool in the army rec room? MILITARYCUE
Praying figure ORANT
Prepare to leave one's plane seat UNBELT
Protestant denom. EPISC
Put aside SAVEUP
Quarreling ATIT
Radii neighbors ULNAS
Rapper with the debut album "Hard Core" LILKIM
Row OAR
Santa __ winds ANA
Seaman's "Help!" MAYDAY
Sesame paste TAHINI
Set the radio dial on TUNETO
Sgt., e.g. NCO
Sign at a broken gas pump? NOFUELING
Singer Lopez TRINI
Skyrocketed SOARED
Small-strip aircraft acronym STOL
Solitary LONE
Son of Zeus ARES
Sound barrier breaker Chuck YEAGER
Speechless moments? MUTEPOINTS
State of mind TEMPER
Strength symbol OAKTREE
Support column? DEARABBY
Swimmer's slot LANE
Talkative bird MYNA
Tease RIB
Teeth: Prefix DENTI
Troop gp. BSA
UN workers' agcy. ILO
Unadulterated moonshine? PURESPIRITS
Unruly locks MOP
War on Poverty org. OEO
Wheel adjuster ALIGNER
Written in mystical letters RUNIC
Yankee manager Joe GIRARDI
__ disease: tick-borne illness LYME
__ Maria: liqueur TIA
__ use: avails ISOF