L.A. Times Magazine - Jan 28 2007

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Clues Answers
"Am ___ understand ..." ITO
"And giving ___, up the chimney he rose" ANOD
"Cow Cow Boogie" singer Morse ELLAMAE
"Do ___ myself clear?" IMAKE
"That's it!" AHA
"Toodle-oo" TATA
"___ your word for it" ILLTAKE
1983 Indy winner Tom SNEVA
Actress Christine LAHTI
Actress Joanne DRU
After ___ THEFACT
Angel dust, briefly PCP
Apian BEELIKE
Aquarium fish TETRA
Arabs and Jews SEMITES
Bagpiper's wear KILT
Belles of balls DEBS
Bible craft ARK
Birds' words CAWS
Blue Nile source, Lake ___ TANA
Brings in REAPS
Card sequence RUN
Cast aside SPURN
Certain Iraqi SUNNI
Charge RUSHAT
Cherished LOVED
Cinema employee USHER
Closes in on NEARS
Columnist Calvin TRILLIN
Commit PERPETRATE
Common tot malady EARACHE
Curve ARC
Cut sharply, as prices SLASH
Dam-building org. TVA
Dancer with John in Pulp Fiction UMA
Dark side of a sitcom? MURKANDMINDY
Done to ___ ATURN
Dukes of Hazzard deputy ENOS
Duster, for one COAT
Fabric units: abbr. YDS
Few and far between SPARSE
Film can content REEL
Fix, as socks SEW
Floor cleaner MOP
Former Ford LTD
Gossip DIRT
Gothic governess EYRE
Haggard novel SHE
Hindu goddess (anagram of ILKA) KALI
Holiday dessert PIE
How I crave hot dogs? INTHEWURSTWAY
Identical-twin bumpkins? MATCHINGRUBES
In a firm manner RESOLUTELY
India's first P.M. NEHRU
Island group off the W coast of Sicily EGADI
John Barth's ___ Goat-Boy GILES
JUDGE DEEM
Kenmore seller SEARS
Kilmer classic TREES
Kirk's sort-of love interest in Seven Days in May AVA
Lab eggs OVA
Ladder danger FALL
Large land measure HECTARE
Large, leaflike part of a flower SPATHE
Lid problem STYE
Long haulers SEMIS
Loses, as pounds SHEDS
Louvre Pyramid architect IMPEI
Luke's dad DARTH
Meal in a pot STEW
Mechanic's charge, partly LABOR
Clues Answers
Menachem's 1978 co-Nobelist ANWAR
Merganser cousins SMEWS
My ___, Vietnam LAI
Needle point? NORTH
Not a fantasy REAL
Novelist Ambler ERIC
Often unpopular defender ACLU
Old despots TSARS
Old Faithful eruption, maybe? SPURTINGEVENT
OR beam LASER
Orwell ending IAN
Oscar-winning screenwriter of A Beautiful Mind, ___ Goldsman AKIVA
Overdid it at a love-in? WENTHUGWILD
Parking lot sign ENTER
Pasta type PENNE
Peter Fonda title role ULEE
Pine YEARN
Polluting, for example HARMING
Popular lingerie brand OLGA
Possesses HAS
Press add-on URE
Pretentious ARTY
Prohibition BAN
Proms DANCES
Puny pups RUNTS
R-rated sci-fi series? LUSTINSPACE
Racetrack boundary RAIL
Radiator sound SSS
Reason the pond is quiet? DUCKSTRIKE
Response to an insult SLAP
Responsibility ONUS
Retired flyer SST
Ride from LAX, maybe CAB
Risking everything, in poker ALLIN
Run distance TENK
Salinger girl ESME
Scand. nation SWED
Senate stretch TERM
Shoestrings, in Paris LACETS
Sicilian smoker ETNA
Singer Kate and actor Will SMITHS
Skelton's Kadiddlehopper CLEM
Slippery devils EELS
Sort of a poor man's cock-a-doodle-doo? ALARMCLUCK
Spell HEX
Start of a Dickens title ATALE
Street thieves MUGGERS
Struck, old-style SMIT
Stylish CHIC
Sucker bet TRAP
Tattoo honoree, often MOM
Taunted GIBED
Tennis great ASHE
The Falcons, briefly ATL
The latest from the world of corn? SHUCKINGNEWS
This, for example: "Some back-up, huh?" "Yeah." "How long we been here?" "Too long!" "'Rush hour' ... go figure." STUCKEXCHANGE
Tourist's observation in Hawaii? EVERYWHEREAMUUMUU
Toward the back AREAR
Trip or slip ERR
Urban renewal target SLUM
Voice quality TONE
VP after Hubert SPIRO
Walk this way?: abbr. SSE
Ward off REPEL
Whatsoever ATALL
Zenith ACME
___ a time ONEAT
___ canto BEL
___ Cologne EAUDE
___ of the D'Urbervilles TESS
___'s Ice Cream EDY