L.A. Times Daily - Oct 21 2012

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Clues Answers
"... __ a puddy tat!" ITAW
"Ahem" relative HEY
"Cimarron" novelist EDNAFERBER
"Crank up the heat!" BRR
"Dragonwyck" author Seton ANYA
"Dude!" BRO
"Et tu, Brute?" day IDES
"I'm holding it!" THIS
"Just answer yes __!" ORNO
"Let me get back to you" ILLSEE
"Lordy!" EGAD
"Nick of Time" singer RAITT
"Project Runway" mentor Tim GUNN
"Stay" singer Lisa LOEB
"The Good Girl" star ANISTON
"__ die for!" ITSTO
'70s Lynyrd Skynyrd label MCA
Adds moisture to HYDRATES
Anchor cable opening HAWSE
At all EVER
Attempts to smooth ruffled feathers MAKESNICE
Avoids a confrontation STEPSASIDE
Batman after Michael VAL
Beige shade ECRU
Belgian lager, familiarly STELLA
Beset by delays LOSINGTIME
Best Picture of 1932 GRANDHOTEL
Bone below the femur FIBULA
British city whose natives are called Loiners LEEDS
Brown and Patrick DANS
Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" e.g SONNET
Brush fire op EVAC
Burkina Faso, once UPPERVOLTA
Canal-cleaning device QTIP
Cardiologist's exam STRESSTEST
Carpooling convenience VAN
Catalan surrealist DALI
Catherine of Aragon's successor, marriagewise ANNEBOLEYN
Citrusy pie flavor KEYLIME
Civil War battle site SHILOH
Classical lead-in NEO
Collectible game system ATARI
Colorful autumn tree MAPLE
Confident words ICAN
Court figs ATTS
Crankcase components OILPANS
Credited in a note CITED
Dermal opening EPI
Dominant theme MOTIF
Emit RADIATE
Entertain with extravagance REGALE
First lady before Mamie BESS
Followed WENTNEXT
Freud contemporary ADLER
Fronton balls PELOTAS
Genetic chains RNAS
Go through EXPERIENCE
Gold compound AURATE
Hangs on a line DRIES
Headly of "Dick Tracy" GLENNE
High-volume pesticide deliverer CROPDUSTER
Hosp. staffer LPN
Hurdle for a would-be doc MCAT
Impatient sounds TSKS
Improve AMEND
In a stuffed-up way NASALLY
Initials at O'Hare UAL
Israeli port city ELAT
Israeli statesman Weizman EZER
It fell after about 15 years MIR
Clues Answers
Jazz trumpeter Ziggy ELMAN
Knight's quality VALOR
Landlocked Afr. land ETH
Latin king REX
Leaves the harbor SETSSAIL
Lenin's successor STALIN
Lip protection GLOSS
Lively folk dances IRISHJIGS
Lustful looker OGLER
Marketing data SALES
MasterCard offering CREDITLINE
Melodic segments ARIOSI
Mending target RIP
Metal giant ALCOA
Mongolian tents YURTS
Monopoly card DEED
Multi-platinum Steely Dan album AJA
Non-studio pic INDIE
Not cut KEEPIN
Odysseus trio, to Homer SIGMAS
Oil used in paint LINSEED
Old Spanish coins REALES
Package word with a cable car in its "o" RONI
Page-turner QUICKREAD
PBS benefactor NEA
Peptic opening? DYS
Pet food brand IAMS
Physician's gp AMA
Picador's target TORO
Picked up LEARNT
Place in math class? TENS
Plan INTEND
Pretoria's land: Abbr RSA
Procedures for detecting carpal fractures WRISTXRAYS
Put the __ on: squelch KIBOSH
Racing's Unsers ALS
Ratio for 25-Across EVENODDS
Reason for sudden death TIE
Restricted parking area, in some cases YELLOWZONE
Riding, with "on" TOPOF
Rival of Cassio IAGO
Rough, in a way RASPY
Russian wheels LADA
Sgts., e.g NCOS
Shirt prohibited at most golf courses, ironically TEE
Shop class holders VISES
State with a panhandle TEXAS
Stay one step ahead of OUTWIT
Stowe novel DRED
Subarctic forest TAIGA
Suffix with defer ENCE
Swedish actress Persson ESSY
Sweetheart BEAU
Tach measures: Abbr RPMS
They could go either way TOSSUPS
Took a shot TRIED
Took in, say ALTERED
Twice tri- HEXA
Unhip types NERDS
Units in nutrition GRAMS
Use spurs on GOAD
Way to travel RAIL
When many lunch ATNOON
Without dissent ASONEMAN
Working EMPLOYED
Yank's foe REB
__ fatty acid TRANS
__ mater ALMA
__ Park: FDR home site HYDE
__ Tamid: synagogue lamp NER