L.A. Times Daily - Jul 29 2011

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Clues Answers
"Diana" crooner ANKA
"From __ Zinc": vitamin slogan ATO
"I've completed the flag"? ROSSWORDS
"Is there any group I haven't offended?" satirist SAHL
"The Book of __": Jane Hamilton novel RUTH
"Think I'm kidding?" OHNO
"Well ... not exactly" ILIED
"__ la Douce" IRMA
"__ of Homecoming": U2 song ASORT
Alumna identifier, perhaps NEE
Antenna shelter RADOME
Aral Sea locale ASIA
Ballets __: early 20th-century dance company RUSSES
Bankrolls WADS
Cans AXES
Celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day? USEDARS
Chin hider GOATEE
Colorado sports nickname, with "the" ROX
Comes down hard? HAILS
Dearth of frost? LOWRIMERATE
Disco era suffix AGOGO
Disputed strip GAZA
Dmitri's denial NYET
Do some tweezing? PULLUPAHAIR
Erupt SPEW
Evening, in ads NITE
First name in courtroom fiction ERLE
Former CIA director Porter __ GOSS
French art song MELODIE
Funnyman Kinison SAM
Gives a facelift REDOES
Glance PEEK
Golden Fleece seeker JASON
Had a home-cooked meal ATEIN
Hosp. test EKG
It's often traded in OLDERMODEL
Jazz pianist Ahmad __ JAMAL
Kentucky border river OHIO
Clues Answers
Magritte and Descartes RENES
Mama bear, in Madrid OSA
Miracle Mets star AGEE
Nimble AGILE
Offenbach's okays OUIS
Pate base FOIE
PayPal owner EBAY
Players try to hit triples with them QTILES
Playground retort ARESO
Pulls along TOWS
Put in a clip LOAD
Queue before U QRST
Ranch addition? ERIA
Regional poem? AREAODE
Rowan Atkinson character MRBEAN
Run in ARREST
Sailing attire for 1-Across? ARGOPANTS
Second or third, for instance NEARTHETOP
See 10-Across NOSEE
See 10-Across TIME
Singer DiFranco ANI
Sky lights AURORAE
Smack SWAT
Sole man HERMIT
Some ales AMBERS
Sounds of disapproval TSKS
Starting half? DEMI
The old man's old man GRAMPA
The orchestra tunes to one OBOE
The world according to Arp MONDE
Touch and shuffle IPODS
Tough tissue SINEW
Turn sharply ZIG
Understood KNOWN
With 42- and 66-Across, words to an old friend, whose end is a hint this puzzle's grid and theme LONG
Writer Dinesen ISAK
WWII craft LSTS
Yank's home, briefly USOFA