L.A. Times Daily - Jul 2 2006

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"Cagney & Lacey" actress GLESS
"Hud" director Martin RITT
"Right this minute?" SOSOON
"Sweet Liberty" director ALANALDA
"The __ near!" ENDIS
"__ an arrow ..." ISHOT
"__ Maria" AVE
''Nausea'' novelist SARTRE
'50s Dodger/Oriole pitcher Billy LOES
1960s slogan POWERTOTHEPEOPLE
1988 NFL MVP BOOMERESIASON
AAA recommendations RTES
Actor Herbert LOM
Aquarium denizen also called a fighting fish BETTA
Arab leaders EMIRS
Author __ Hubbard LRON
Backs SUPPORTS
Becomes established, as a transplanted plant REROOTS
Breakfast meat HAM
Brewski COLDONE
Building wing ELL
Burlesque PARODY
Bygone despots TSARS
Call for help SOS
Camper's aid FLINT
Carved pillar STELA
Cause for some chin stroking TOUGHIE
Caviar ROE
Chicago hub OHARE
Classic painting on a 1934 postage stamp WHISTLERSMOTHER
Colorful warnings ALERTS
Coming-in approx. ETA
Company with a spokesduck AFLAC
Considers DEEMS
Court garb ROBE
Crater Lake locale OREGON
Crude meas. BBLS
Dante's love AMORE
Diner, for one EATERY
Drei minus zwei EINS
Elton John's "__ Song" YOUR
Entices BAITS
Even (with) ONAPAR
Excellent AONE
Excess SURPLUS
Fab start? PRE
Fall mo. OCT
Fats Domino's first name ANTOINE
Favorin' FER
Fishhook fastener SNELL
Flowing out EFFLUENT
Formally request SOLICIT
Friend of Antilochus ACHILLES
Golfer's sock ANKLET
Got a step ahead of ONEUPPED
HBO series about a sports agent ARLISS
Hokkaido seaport OTARU
Holier-than-__ THOU
However, informally THO
Ideological barrier affected by Nixon's China visit BAMBOOCURTAIN
Idioms ARGOTS
Increasingly popular TV genre REALITY
Inventor's protection PATENT
Items in businessmen's carry-on bags LAPTOPS
Itinerant NOMAD
Kosher 28-Acrosses DELIS
Land in the ocean ISLE
Language of 106-Across FARSI
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Lemon rind PEEL
Lethargy SOPOR
Like mocs SLIPON
Like the first ever UNHEARDOF
Loaves in 102-Across RYES
Lucille Ball, e.g. REDHEAD
Magazine with the column "Jay Leno's Garage" POPULARMECHANICS
Melville sequel OMOO
Minutes taker, briefly SECY
Musical McEntire REBA
Nemesis ARCHENEMY
Niagara Falls feeder ERIE
Nike rival KEDS
Nixon attorney general Richardson ELLIOT
Not much SELDOM
Not yet rented UNLET
Notable Montague ROMEO
NOW cause ERA
Official stamp SEAL
Outcast LEPER
Pale ASHEN
Persia, now IRAN
Picked-off passes: Abbr. INTS
Pierre's possessive AMOI
Plastic user's concern DEBT
Pope after John X LEOVI
Preceders of omegas PSIS
Prefix with center EPI
Prefix with Japanese SINO
Prefix with sphere TROPO
Professor, usually SCHOLAR
Q-Tip, e.g. SWAB
Quarters, perhaps COINS
Race with required passes RELAY
Ran relaxedly LOPED
Reunion group CLAN
Roar with laughter YUKITUP
Roman orator CICERO
San __, Italy REMO
Scottish slope BRAE
Sea dog SALT
SEATO headquarters site BANGKOKTHAILAND
Semi HALF
Sharp weapon LANCE
Sink conduit DRAIN
Smooch BUSS
Soft drink choice COLA
Sonny and Cher, once BONOS
Southern state symbol LONESTAR
Squashes, in a way STEPSON
Standard partner POORS
Storage medium DISK
Stu of '50s TV ERWIN
Tackle box item SCALER
Take hold SETIN
Takes apart, as a bracelet UNLINKS
Teen affliction ACNE
Tibetan beasts YAKS
Tilts CANTS
Unpredictable currents ELNINOS
USMC rank PFC
Vaulted recesses APSES
Vinegar bottles CRUETS
Wedding reception feature OPENBAR
Welcome words for dieters NOFAT
Word in MGM's motto GRATIA
__ D.A. ASST