L.A. Times Daily - Aug 27 2006

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Clues Answers
"Can you dig it?" comeback IMHIP
"North Shore" actress Peeples NIA
"O come, __ ..." ALLYE
"Three Times __": Commodores hit ALADY
"Typee" sequel OMOO
1970s best seller on the Continent? IMOKEUROK
1984 Olympic star inspired by Nadia MARYLOU
1988 Heisman Trophy runner-up Rodney PEETE
1997 Best Movie Oscar winner TITANIC
A/C rating units BTUS
About INRE
Alchemist's concoction ELIXIR
Angular addition ELL
Assembly aid KIT
Astrologer Sydney OMARR
Axle attachments UBOLTS
Ballot bit CHAD
Bangkok alternative to home-baked? STOREBAHT
Banish from power OUST
Bearish URSINE
Began SETIN
Beginning ASOF
Believe HOLD
Biceps band ARMLET
Bourbon Street trumpeter HIRT
Bring down SADDEN
Calls out SHOUTS
Circles overhead HALOS
Country on the Caspian IRAN
Dadaist Max ERNST
Deeply desire, with "for" YEARN
Deposed despot TSAR
Dessert order PIE
Determined GRITTY
Devil's doings EVIL
Disney girl who adopted Stitch LILO
Diva delivery ARIA
Doles METES
Downhill and slalom RACES
Dry Saharan streambeds WADIS
Egyptian god with a falcon's head HORUS
Excuse ALIBI
Faux: Abbr. IMIT
First African-American US Open champ ASHE
Flaw on a diamond ERROR
Furry sci-fi critter EWOK
Galen Adams, to Marshal Dillon DOC
Give an edge to HONE
Gives an address SPEAKS
Go after SETON
Got on swimmingly HITITOFF
Hand measurement SPAN
Handymen FIXERS
Heating bill reaction? OUCH
Hey, the quiet way PSST
Hindu royal RANEE
Hockey Hall of Fame site TORONTO
Homer's father ABE
Hung jury outcome MISTRIAL
In-box items MESSAGES
Indy icon UNSER
Iniquitous places? DENS
Irish tune, when trilled in Turin? TOORALIRALIRA
Islamic sectarian SHIITE
It could be nothing LOVE
It's sportier than a sedan COUPE
J followers KLMN
Jury member PEER
Keen WAIL
Kibbutznik's dance HORA
Kind of pad LILY
Kind of wave SONIC
Clues Answers
King and queen WRITERS
Kuwait City evening entertainment? DINARTHEATER
L.A.-to-Tucson direction ESE
Lacking SANS
Latin 101 word AMO
Lent relative RAMADAN
Little rug TOUPEE
Looking forward to UPFOR
Lose one's marbles GOMAD
Lowed MOOED
Loyal highness FIDELITY
Madonna role EVITA
Magical opening ABRA
Maximally ATBEST
Minnesota's state bird LOON
Minuscule margin HAIR
Miss America topper TIARA
More arrogant LORDLIER
More than whiffs ODORS
Nick who won six major golf tournaments FALDO
Oceanic refluxes EBBTIDES
One acting DOER
One way to store data ONCD
Opine rudely HORNIN
Palindromic title MADAM
Pan's opposite RAVE
Parisian's pledge of honesty? ILLBEFRANC
Perimeter command HALT
Petroleum source SHALE
Petty SMALL
Phil's spouse MARLO
Piece for nine NONET
Plotting UPTO
Pond film SCUM
Portent OMEN
Prohibition TABOO
Pros get them often MRIS
Provoke DARE
Recipe direction DICE
Relief spot OASIS
Rent, in Kent HIRE
Result of a leadoff double ONEON
Rev counters TACHS
Richard's first veep SPIRO
Rio and Sportage KIAS
Rocky peak TOR
Rolling Stones song popular in Punjab? RUPEETUESDAY
Schizoid Tel Aviv twosome? SHEKELANDHYDE
Sen.'s counterpart REP
Send forth EMIT
Shakespeare's Muse ERATO
Shut up SEAL
Slack off EASE
Slick OILY
Slo-Pitch pitch LOB
Snitch TELL
Sole LONE
Somme srta. MLLE
Squelch, as a story SITON
Storied slipper material GLASS
Super Bowl XL ring wearer STEELER
Surrounded by AMIDST
Take the lead STAR
Taro Festival site MAUI
Tehran land? RIALESTATE
The Pequod, to Ahab SHE
To the time when, briefly TIL
Top hat go-with TAILS
Where Betelgeuse is ORION
Word on a loser's TV dinner? LOFAT
Zhou of China ENLAI
__ mignon FILET