L.A. Times Daily - Aug 19 2007

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Clues Answers
"All is vanity" Bible bk. ECCL
"Elder" statesman of Rome CATO
"Elf" actor CAAN
"High Country" author Nevada BARR
"How the Other Half Lives" author RIIS
"Me & U" singer CASSIE
"Mila 18" author URIS
"Star Trek" role SULU
"Throwing Heat" autobiographer Ryan NOLAN
"__ Grows in Brooklyn" ATREE
"__ Mia": 1965 hit CARA
13 for Al, e.g. ATNO
1953 A.L. MVP Al ROSEN
1999 movie about a reality show EDTV
All in all ONBALANCE
Anecdotal collections ANAS
Around ORSO
Author Calvino ITALO
Author Zora __ Hurston NEALE
Authority figure, in slang THEMAN
Avis alternative ALAMO
Bleak, in verse DREAR
Bonkers LOOPY
Breakfast hrs. AMS
Breyers rival EDYS
California city where A&W root beer was born LODI
Cat suit wearer in a 1939 classic LAHR
Classic typewriter ROYAL
Cleared up IRONEDOUT
Clock tick, briefly SEC
Closes SHUTS
Conform (to) HEW
Cooperative group TEAM
Costa Rica's __ Peninsula OSA
Dilettantish ARTY
Domestic course HOMEEC
Electrical units AMPERES
Engine type DIESEL
Everyman REGULARJOE
Exploit USE
Ferretlike carnivores MONGOOSES
Fifth-century invader ATTILA
Finance major's deg. BBA
Getting across TRAVERSING
Gillette's __ Plus razor ATRA
Half of Bennifer JLO
Halley's __ COMET
Handy abbr. ETC
Heath growth GORSE
Hightailed it SPED
How Pasternak wrote "Dr. Zhivago" INRUSSIAN
Indian spiced tea CHAI
Indianapolis-based sports org. NCAA
Init., e.g. ABBR
Intl. __ mile NAUT
It's always underfoot SOLE
Judge, at times ADJURER
Judge, at times NOUN
Kazakhstan's capital ASTANA
Landlocked African nation MALI
Lawyer's job WILL
Layer HEN
Lazy river floaters TUBES
Letters next to a 3 DEF
Like JFK INTL
Literally, "strong" in Hawaiian MAHI
Maker of many market rolls ALCOA
Merit badge site SASH
Moira's "Chaplin" role OONA
Move, in brokerese RELO
Mozambique's capital MAPUTO
Clues Answers
Mozart movement RONDO
Muckraker Tarbell IDA
Muppets pronoun MOI
New York native ONEIDA
NYPD alerts APBS
Obedient DUTIFUL
Old NBC court series LALAW
Old orchard spray ALAR
One for the money? UNUM
Panama border? BRIM
Party animal REVELER
Pass toward the middle again, as a puck RECENTER
Peter of Herman's Hermits NOONE
Petty officer YEOMAN
Picasso contemporary MIRO
Picnic basket bowlful POTATOSALAD
Piece of history RELIC
Pindus Mountains site GREECE
Plus AND
Poker star Hansen GUS
Pre-barbecuing spice application RUB
Promising ROSY
Qatar University city DOHA
Recital pieces ARIAS
Rhyming boxer ALI
Ruckus ADO
Rush order shorthand ASAP
Rushes HIES
Say "y'all," say ELIDE
Scientology's Hubbard LRON
SFO posting ARR
Sharpen HONE
Shoot the breeze CHIN
Showing no pain STOIC
Sight from Eritrea REDSEA
Skin lotion brand KERI
Soccer great PELE
Somers of "Match Game" BRETT
Sore MAD
Steps along the Seine? DANSE
Stumblebum OAF
Subj. involving origins ETYM
Suburban mail svc. RFD
Supplements, with "out" EKES
Sweet'__ NLOW
Synthetic jacket fabrics ULTRASUEDES
Takes in EARNS
Teardrop-shaped instrument MANDOLIN
The Centennial St. COLO
Title for Curie: Abbr. MME
Tony CHIC
Tribe that split from the Winnebago OTO
Vacationer's favorite '70s album by The Trammps? DISCOINFERNO
Vacationer's favorite Elvis Presley hit? BURNINGLOVE
Vacationer's favorite playwright? AUGUSTWILSON
Vacationer's favorite song from "The Pajama Game"? STEAMHEAT
Vacationer's favorite Tom Cruise film? BORNONTHEFOURTHOFJULY
Vacationer's goal (and favorite Sly & the Family Stone hit) HOTFUNINTHESUMMERTIME
Vex RILE
Where billions are ASIA
Where Gauguin painted "By the Sea" TAHITI
Where to find Lux. EUR
Wild __ WEST
Winningest Montreal Expos manager ALOU
Work for a judge CLERK
Work on the road TAR
Zaire's Mobuto Sese __ SEKO
__ Balls (Hostess snacks) SNO
__ fat TRANS
__ instant INAN
__-pitch SLO