L.A. Times Magazine - Feb 18 2007

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Clues Answers
"Any time you're around, just ___, ___" POPINJAY
"Christmas is over, so you can stop ___, ___" CAROLINGIAN
"I hear your film has something to do with the ___, ___" ENVIRONMENTAL
"I smell a ___, ___" RATCHET
"I think there's more to this than you care to ___, ___" ADMITTED
"Just because you prefer Dharma over Greg doesn't make you a ___, ___" HINDUSTAN
"No, I don't think 'virgin wool' means that the sheep were ___, ___" CHASTENED
"So long" ALOHA
"So what's it like being an ex-___, ___?" CONDOM
"That's ___ hooey!" ALOTTA
"The future's always a little ___, ___" UNCERTAINTY
"What would you like in your ___, ___?" PITAPAT
"With your popularity, you'll be easy to ___, ___" ELECTRON
"You can take the stairs or the ___, ___" RAMPART
"You're looking ___, ___" CHICKEN
"You're no ___, ___" FUNGUS
"Your as dumb as ___, ___" APOSTLES
007, e.g. SPY
1990s sitcom ELLEN
Access provider PASSKEY
Archer and Bancroft ANNES
Area 51's state NEVADA
Ballyshannon's river ERNE
Barbara or Rosa preceder SANTA
Barracks VIP SGT
Battery type AAA
Beach, in Baja PLAYA
Become smaller WANE
Beer bash buy CASE
Big cheese BOSS
Big name in chips INTEL
Bighorn belle EWE
Blowout fix PATCH
Bridle strap REIN
Bright students' org. NHS
British verb ending ISE
Captain Kangaroo portrayer KEESHAN
Chop well, as garlic MINCE
Chopped down HEWN
Close to bedtime LATISH
Day break NAP
Decorative arch OGEE
Derisive looks SNEERS
Design detail SPEC
Discarded metal SCRAP
Dollar bill ONESPOT
Downer DRAG
Earthenware jar OLLA
Easily irritated PEEVISH
Eat chips, e.g. MUNCH
ER VIPs MDS
Euro predecessor FRANC
Feisty little guy BANTAM
Fellow worker MATE
Flat rates? RENTS
Flip over UPEND
Foreign policy grp. NSC
Go bananas SNAP
Good to go SET
Good, in Granada BUENO
Had a sit-down MET
Hairdo in Hair AFRO
Half a rum cocktail MAI
Halt legally ESTOP
Home of the Braves, briefly ATL
Humane device for catching abandoned pets CATTRAP
Hurry HIE
Isle of Man man, e.g. GAEL
It brings down the house TNT
It means "outer" EXO
It might be enough ONCE
Clues Answers
Jack Benny catchword WELL
Jack's predecessor IKE
James of criticism AGEE
James of music ETTA
Jane on Frasier DAPHNE
Jetted FLEW
Joseph of ice cream fame EDY
Just loves EATSUP
Knack for comebacks WIT
Land o' blarney ERIN
Leather color TAN
Like some businesses INHOME
Likely APT
Linen source FLAX
Litigators' org. ABA
Long time EON
Losing tic-tac-toe line OXO
Lumberjack AXEMAN
Made smooth PLANED
Maja painter GOYA
Make glum SADDEN
Military rank MAJOR
Model from Mogadishu IMAN
Mutts CURS
Nail's partner TOOTH
Newspaper div. COL
No-goodniks BADEGGS
Of summer ESTIVAL
Old despot TSAR
Old queen of Spain ENA
One end of the Suez Canal REDSEA
One way to run AMOK
Only SOLE
Outlaws BANS
Oversupply SURFEIT
PC panic button ESC
Perfume amount DRAM
Plant part that sounds like it was pilfered STOLON
Playground staple SLIDE
Puncture opening ACU
Quint's boat in Jaws ORCA
Ray of fast food fame KROC
Researcher's find CURE
Romantic, to kids MUSHY
Safe place BASE
Scheduled mtgs. APPTS
Scoundrel CAD
See 109 Down TAMER
Seniors' grp. AARP
Short, for short LIL
Slick OILY
So on, in Latin CETERA
Solvers' cries AHAS
Some LAX info, briefly ETDS
Subsides ABATES
Superlative finish EST
Suspect star, 1987 CHER
Swelling EDEMA
Tara family OHARAS
Tartan pattern PLAID
This puzzle's theme, in part MENSNAMES
Time ___ half ANDA
Type of poem HAIKU
Vietnam neighbor LAOS
What "junior might be going through" APHASE
William Holden-Grace Kelly film, The Bridges at ___ TOKORI
Wireless giant ALLTEL
With 79 Across, a circus job LION
Wood worry DRYROT
Zilch NONE
___ and outs INS