L.A. Times Daily - Feb 12 2010

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Clues Answers
"Later" TATA
"__ stands now ..." ASIT
1940s-'50s NFLer __ "Crazylegs" Hirsch ELROY
Actress Petty LORI
Ascend RISE
Attractive locale MECCA
Bierce defines it "His" HERS
Big theme park star SHAMU
Bruise treatment ICE
Carrier since 1948 ELAL
Cookie fruit FIGS
Corpulence OBESITY
Diamond et al. NEILS
Doesn't bother with LETSBE
Droop SAG
Either of two filmmaking brothers COEN
End LAPSE
Enthusiast NUT
Epithet for many leaders, with "the" GREAT
Fabulous storyteller AESOP
Fancy dance BALL
Fictional plantation TARA
Filling the shelves with no leftover merchandise or space? STOCKINGFEAT
Fly over Africa? TSETSE
Frivolous SILLY
Funny Bombeck ERMA
German wheels OPEL
Get a spare, perhaps BOWL
Go after with vigor ASSAIL
Grandly entertains REGALES
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame the same year as Billie Jean BJORN
Heads to sea SAILS
Hun King ATTILA
Hydroxyl compound ENOL
Inlaid work MOSAIC
Insult SLUR
Irish Rose's guy ABIE
Clues Answers
It can't be understood until it's broken CODE
Katz of "Hocus Pocus" OMRI
Leave in a hurry, slangily BAIL
Line crosser of a sort SCAB
Loud signal when the fries are done? POTATOPEALER
Manx, for one CAT
Market advances UPTICKS
Method: Abbr. SYS
Mil. rank SGT
Mill input GRIST
Mine stratum SEAM
Music player RADIO
No-frills BASIC
Plains natives OTOS
Plant connection GRAFT
Play for time STALL
Plenty LOTSOF
Prepare to strike, snake-style COIL
Reed instrument OBOE
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame architect IMPEI
Short range ATOB
Sign before Virgo LEO
Some crop dusters BIPLANES
St. whose northernmost division is Boundary County IDA
Strike __: model APOSE
Suspense movie sound FOOTSTEP
Take too much of, briefly ODON
Theft with a clean getaway? STAINLESSSTEAL
They have their pride LIONS
Turndowns NOES
Two-time 1980s skating gold medalist WITT
Whence the wise men? AFAR
Without means of support? BRALESS
Word repeated in a famous FDR quote FEAR
Yoko? JAPANESEBEATLE
[It's gone!] POOF
__ Valley: Reagan library site SIMI