L.A. Times Daily - Apr 2 2006

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Clues Answers
"Be-Bop-A-__": 1956 hit LULA
"Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Walker MORT
"Cocoon" actor AMECHE
"Do the Right Thing" Oscar nominee AIELLO
"Dorm police," so to speak RAS
"Giles Goat-Boy" author BARTH
"Judith" composer ARNE
"Sad to say ..." ALAS
"That's not __ idea" ABAD
"This is __ sudden!" ALLSO
"You never know" MAYBE
"__ bleu!" SACRE
'30s-'40s country star Roy ACUFF
'70s Connecticut governor GRASSO
ABA members ATTS
Actor in TV's "Las Vegas" CAAN
Actress McClurg EDIE
Air gun ammo BBS
Angel's opposite BRAT
Arrivé COME
Ate nothing but certain veggies? GOTBYONLEEKSALONE
Atop ONTO
Basset hound feature SADEYES
Beef cuts LOINS
Best skater in the forest? SLIDINGDEER
Big lug OAF
Bills NEBS
Black-ink item ASSET
Buffet dish heater STERNO
Bum thing? STEER
Cat who invaded a vegetable garden? PUSSINBEETS
Caught SNARED
Chucks TOSSES
Church pledge TITHE
Complete TOTAL
Creek warrior pardoned by Andrew Jackson REDEAGLE
Curly companion MOE
Daily charge RATE
Dangerous baked dish? NEEDLECASSEROLE
Deals with SELLSTO
Deft ADROIT
Den focal point TVSET
Denver Broncos' helmet logo? STEEDONONESHEAD
Doce meses ANO
Doesn't buy a vowel SPINS
Dorothy, to Em NIECE
Down time? MALAISE
English lit moniker BOZ
Env. directive ATTN
Ewe kids LAMBS
Extinct birds DODOS
Federal ID's SSNS
Figs. AMTS
Flat cat? TENANT
Garden plot BED
Graf's guy AGASSI
Ham follower? ONRYE
He played Santa in "Elf" ASNER
Hook's nemesis CROC
House channel CSPAN
Hunks' trunks SPEEDOS
Innocents BABES
Intensely eager ARDENT
Is for two? ARE
Jacobi of "I, Claudius" DEREK
Kentucky arena dedicatee RUPP
Killer whale ORCA
Kind of orange NAVEL
Kirk __, first movie Superman ALYN
Clues Answers
Klingons, for one ALIENRACE
Lacking an ear, as it were TONEDEAF
Like a tundra TREELESS
Like days of yore OLDEN
Mag wheels? EDS
Magnalium, e.g. ALLOY
Makes a marketing connection TIESIN
Many of Elvis's RCA releases EPS
Marcia's "Desperate Housewives" role BREE
Mean-spirited HOSTILE
Microscopic pond organism ALGA
Milan crowd? TRE
Mother in "Ah, Wilderness!" ESSIE
Movie mascot debut of 1928 MGMLION
Much FAR
Mus. slow-up RIT
Navel buildup LINT
Obedient dental patients FLOSSERS
Office group STAFF
Old French coins ECUS
Old Olds ALERO
Old Southern fighters REBS
Old-time alternative to ankle chains BILBO
Oldest U.S. settlement west of the Rockies ASTORIA
One-track MONO
Ovarian hormones ESTROGENS
Packed, as freight LADED
Pearl Buck heroine OLAN
Persona for Gilda BABA
Precisely, with "on" THENOSE
Prefix with centric ETHNO
Pro-Fido org. ASPCA
Progressive predecessor, in lenses TRIFOCAL
Pub spigot TAP
Raised BRED
Recorded proceedings ACTA
Reinking and Miller ANNS
Requirements NEEDS
Rests LIES
Rolodex nos. TELS
Sanctified BLEST
See 29-Down RATHER
Seek redress from SUE
Sensational issue TABLOID
Skeet shooting challenge? STEELPIGEON
Soaks, as flax RETS
Soprano Gluck ALMA
Sound measurements SONES
Spanish Surrealist DALI
Statistical calculation MODE
Stick ADHERE
Sticky substance GOOP
Stolen goods LOOT
Strands at the chalet, maybe ICESIN
Stravinsky and a lab assistant IGORS
Super Bowl XXV champs NYGIANTS
Supernatural glow AURA
Support for an art major EASEL
Taiwanese dissident __ Hsin-liang HSU
TD scorers RBS
Teen travails ACNES
Tightwad CHEAPO
Times for action DDAYS
Trattoria topping ALFREDO
Tropical vine LIANA
Two-time French prime minister CHIRAC
Venerable one ANCIENT
Warning for a Kleenex moment? SNEEZEALARM
With 15-Down, retired anchor since 2005 DAN