L.A. Times Magazine - May 14 2006

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Clues Answers
"Clue" suspect PLUM
"Here it is!" AHA
"I was working in ___ ..." (start of "Monster Mash") THELAB
"No time to wallow in the ___" (Doors lyric) MIRE
"Okay, you win!" UNCLE
"That's just what I needed!" THANKS
"Think I'm kidding?" OHNO
"___ saying goes ..." ASTHE
"___ thought" ORSOI
A big fan of INTO
A real mouthful? TEETH
Actor Diffring or Walbrook ANTON
Ahab and others: abbr. CAPTS
Art Spiegelman's 1992 Pulitzer-winning rodent novel MAUS
Auth. unknown ANON
Aware of, slangily HIPTO
Background crew EXTRAS
Backtalk SASS
Bar wedge LEMON
Barrel of laughs RIOT
Beet variety CHARD
Bewitched role DARRIN
Bleak House girl ADA
Boer War setting, the ___ TRANSVAAL
Breath-holding crowd reaction HUSH
Business mgmt. ADMIN
Card choice DEBIT
Carries a heavy caseload? LUGS
Certain bazaargoer ARAB
Changed clips, perhaps RELOADED
Chilling pieces? ICE
Clip out SCISSOR
Coffeemaker style DRIP
Columbia River highlight GORGE
Comes before ANTEDATES
Concerning ASTO
Coward's lack SPINE
Creator of Willy, the chocolate maker ROALD
Crop up ARISE
Cross word? BAH
Cycle's front-end? TRI
Disney acronym EPCOT
Double-crosser RAT
DVD reader LASER
E. follower COLI
Emulate Ernie Els GOLF
Exodus co-star MINEO
First-class GRADEA
Fishing for certain fish TROUTING
Flight height, on a gauge ALT
Gas in a sign NEON
Get ___ (toss) RIDOF
Giant author's first name EDNA
Gillette's ___ II TRAC
Giving the boot AXING
Grand in scope EPIC
Great movie for puzzle fans, The Last of ___ SHEILA
Half a dance CHA
Hard-nosed STERN
Have debts OWE
He said "splainin' " DESI
Hemingway's Adams NICK
Hill building CAPITOL
Hotshot ACE
Iliac intro SACRO
In all likelihood: abbr. PROB
In ___ (going nowhere) ARUT
Ingrid's last role GOLDA
Keats creations ODES
Kong's cousins APES
Clues Answers
Latest fad RAGE
Latest, perhaps NEWS
Like milk on the floor SPILT
Like most notebook paper RULED
Like some beef AGED
Like some hockey goals (so-called because the goalie is away from the crease) EMPTYNET
Mansion employee MAID
Masters hurdles ORALS
Mattress giant SERTA
Medium power? ESP
Mo. no. 8 AUG
More expeditiously SOONER
Mortarboard tosser GRAD
Namath's last team RAMS
Negative noises BOOS
NYC's ___ Lehman Plaza SHEARSON
NYPD Blue co-star SMITS
Old word for zero AUGHT
Parish priest VICAR
Peak that inspired a company name ETNA
Periodic table abbr. ATWT
Playbill paragraph BIO
Private entertainers? USO
Protagonists HEROES
Put-on ACT
Quick note LINE
R-V contents STU
Related AKIN
Rust or lime OXIDE
Scatter STREW
Shaper in a shop LATHE
Sharp, as a turn HAIRPIN
Shipyard relics HULKS
Short partner? SWEET
Sign in the dark EXIT
Slight fight SPAT
Snake-eyes TWO
Solitary sort RECLUSE
Spanish entree, carne ___ ASADA
Stays around longer than OUTLIVES
Taffeta trait SHEEN
The chuckwagon cook ___ SPILLEDTHEBEANS
The cowboy ___ FELLOFFTHEWAGON
The furniture designer ___ DROPPEDHISDRAWERS
The gum-chewing child actor ___ STUCKTOTHESCRIPT
The machinist ___ LOSTHISBEARINGS
The nearsighted boxer ___ PUNCHEDTHECLOCK
The Pentecost painter ELGRECO
The submarine skipper ___ SCRAPEDTHEBOTTOM
The, to Goya LAS
Theater deliveries REELS
Tijuana tip, maybe PESO
Took a break SAT
Total pros? CPAS
Traffic woes SNARLS
Trouble for 12 Down DISTRESS
Turkish VIP, once PASHA
Umiak rowers ESKIMOS
Unit of Elmer Fudd laughter HEH
Villains' victims, perhaps DAMSELS
Walker, on signs PED
Wallpaper design MOTIF
Washington State's motto (it's Chinook for "by and by" and has nothing to do with drinking) ALKI
With, to Godard AVEC
Word in a Salinger title RYE
Words with a certain ring? IDO
___ in the bucket ADROP
___ manual USERS
___-disant (self-styled) SOI