L.A. Times Sunday - Jul 30 2006

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Clues Answers
"A likely story!" HAH
"Don't look at "me"!" NOTI
"Hairspray"'s Lake RICKI
"I've --- had!" BEEN
"Lulu" composer Alban BERG
"Rocky" composer Bill CONTI
"Sister Carrie"'s Carrie MEEBER
"Two owls and ---...": Lear AHEN
"Whether --- nobler..." TIS
.0000001 joule ERG
Actor --- L. Jackson SAMUEL
Actress Best EDNA
Agent EMISSARY
Airport abbr. ETA
Alamo alternative AVIS
Ancient Asian MEDE
April Fool delivery? ARIES
Artists' ateliers, often LOFTS
At the moment NOW
Band-Aid rival CURAD
Best-groomed NEATEST
Bible kingdom or Utah town MOAB
Big bang cause TNT
Big Ben is on it THAMES
Big bus. in Hartford INS
Biological bags SACS
Birthday party statement SPEECH
Bordeaux product SAUTERNE
Born and raised here NATIVE
Break of day? SIESTA
Calendar display type LED
Catch, as crooks NAB
Certain cotton threads LISLES
Certain strikeouts ERASURES
City near Des Moines AMES
Clinging mollusk LIMPET
Clothing closure SNAP
Comic strip about an ace bibliographer? THEWIZARDOFIBID
Confused ADDLED
Contraband carriers MULES
Countermand NIX
Crawl from lap to lap? SWIM
Cricket club BAT
Current event? TIDE
D.C. upper house SEN
Dancer's partners REINDEER
Diesel of "Find Me Guilty" VIN
Do half a biathlon SKI
Draw conclusions INFER
Dream House, teensy fashions, etc.? BARBIENECESSITIES
Drops on the grass DEW
Durbeyfield's daughter TESS
Editing "never minds" STETS
Engraver Dürer ALBRECHT
Enter GOINTO
Essences PITHS
Etonian's mom MATER
Excelled SHONE
Farm gear pioneer DEERE
Fault line features? MOBILEHILLS
Follow orders OBEY
Go back, as for a pass FADE
Green tropical bird MOTMOT
Has the moxie DARES
Hibernation station LAIR
Hide --- hair NOR
High-schooler TEEN
Highland John IAN
Hits the bottle BOOZES
Holey roll BAGEL
Clues Answers
Home of "la familia" CASA
Investigate thoroughly RESEARCH
Just made EKED
Key letter PHI
L - IX XLI
Lake former DAM
Lance Armstrong autobiography? THEBIKINGANDI
Large terrier AIREDALE
Leonine locks MANE
Less processed RAWER
Licorice candy WHIP
Like Burns' mouse WEE
Like loads ADORE
Longtime New York eatery SARDIS
MGM motto opener ARS
Miracle food? MANNA
Modeler's woods BALSAS
Modem speed units BAUDS
More than a cold FLU
Much to be desired ENVIABLE
Name fit for a king? REX
No, to Nanette NON
Nothing-but-net sound SWISH
Oak-to-be ACORN
Observatory north of San Diego PALOMAR
One of the guy's HIS
Onion kin CHIVE
Oxford foundations? SOLES
Performs a procedure OPERATES
Picks SELECTS
Playing marbles AGATES
Potter's Peter RABBIT
Powerful blow GALE
Prated NATTERED
Precepts TENETS
Redd Foxx's Great Plains sitcom? SANFORDANDBISON
Reduced BATED
Saying "Yippee!" or "Howdy, ma'am"? COWBOYHABIT
Sgt. Pepper singer Billy SHEARS
Shape shifter BRA
Singer k.d. LANG
Singer Makeba MIRIAM
Soft touch PAT
Some bipeds MEN
Sound from a broken egg PEEP
Split DIVIDE
Splits, slangily BAILS
Starbuck, to Ishmael SHIPMATE
Stride rate PACE
Strikeout king Ryan NOLAN
Suffix with morph or phon EME
Tandoor material CLAY
Tankard topper LID
Tarbell or Lupino IDA
Taunts GIBES
Telecom company CARRIER
The Greatest excuse? MUHAMMADALIBI
The path of virtue TAO
Tiny openings PINHOLES
To be, to Babette ETRE
Tokyo before 1868 EDO
Train with mood swings? THEBIPOLAREXPRESS
Useful Scrabble tile ESS
Veronica-inspired cheer OLE
Vodka-beer potable ERSH
Von Richthofen, e.g. BARON
West Ireland county GALWAY
What Kant critiqued REASON
Whirling water EDDY
Xenophobe's bugaboo ALIEN