L.A. Times Sunday - Jan 20 2008

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Clues Answers
"--- only as directed" USE
"Are you -- out?" INOR
"Be that as it may" EVENSO
"For instance ..." SUCHAS
"Gee!" BOY
"Guys and Dolls" gambler Detroit NATHAN
"Jeopardy!" category POTPOURRI
"Mystic Pizza"'s Taylor LILI
"The Forty Days of --- Dagh" MUSA
--- -jongg MAH
10cc, perhaps DOSE
1959 Cadillac features FINS
A little flat? APT
A little French number UNE
Aardvark or zebra MAMMAL
Airport area GATE
Apiarist's risk STING
Aurora, to some EOS
Back strokes? PATS
Bagel choice SESAME
Barcelona-born painter MIRO
Baseball card stat RBI
Be a booster ENCOURAGE
Be a guru GUIDE
Be a perfect example EPITOMIZE
Bear, up there URSA
Begum's spouse AGA
Belief TENET
Bible blue-penciling? SCRIPTUREEDITING
Bit of work ERG
BMOC, e.g. VIP
Bombshell SENSATION
Bridge builder's option TRUSS
Cafeteria coffeepot URN
Casserole candidates ORTS
Coeur d'--- ALENE
Constant stress? PERMANENTPRESSURE
Cooling-off period? ICEAGE
Crooked character? ESS
CSI evidence DNA
Dawdles LOLLYGAGS
Do a human thing ERR
Drops at dawn DEW
Easy marks PIGEONS
ESPN's Hershiser OREL
Even a little ANY
Events DOINGS
Expired LAPSED
Explorer Bering VITUS
Fedders competitor TRANE
Fictional gourmet? LITERARYEPICURE
Figure skater Kulik ILIA
Financing figs. APRS
From the beginning, in Latin ABINITIO
Fully cooked DONE
General store item STAPLE
Granite State sch. UNH
Grassland wind gust? BLASTFROMTHEPASTURE
Hardly important MINOR
Heraclitus, for one EPHESIAN
Hula Bowl wear LEI
Indiana's state flower PEONY
Internet page visits HITS
It can give you a black eye MASCARA
It needs work JOB
It's for the birds AVIARY
Jarry's "--- Roi" UBU
Jumbo and petite SIZES
Kept track of MONITORED
Clues Answers
Kind of art or tart POP
Koontz and Cain DEANS
Kyoto cummerbunds OBIS
Lacking SANS
LAX info ETA
Less MINUS
Letter from Greece RHO
Level the playing field? MOW
Like a transient triumph METEORIC
Like Albee's Alice TINY
Matinee melodrama SOAPOPERA
Meadow mom EWE
Media coverage in Quebec? MONTREALEXPOSURE
Minimal bikini THONG
Modena moola, once LIRE
Moses' mountain SINAI
Most absurd SCREWIEST
Municipalities TOWNS
Nail salon session? MANICUREEPISODE
Narcotics units KILOS
No thanks from them! INGRATES
Not e'en once NEER
Novelist Hoag TAMI
Offers a challenge DARES
Ore. neighbor IDA
Paragons and paradigms IDEALS
Parks of 1955 news ROSA
Part of a loaf, or a loafer HEEL
Pastoral place LEA
Piece of clothing GARMENT
Plotted angles SCHEMED
Popeye words IYAM
Pre-Columbian American INCA
Prepare to be shot POSE
Put-down victim EGO
Recumbent PRONE
Rent- --- ACAR
Robert who played A.J. Soprano ILER
Saucer sitter CUP
Sch. on the Charles MIT
Scots Gaelic ERSE
Shakespeare prince HAL
She played Mindy PAM
Shed at the zoo MOLT
Shrinks' bloc APA
Sinbad's big bird ROC
Sister of Moses MIRIAM
Society gal DEB
Solo in space HAN
Sops up ABSORBS
Spare part? RIB
Spy novelist Deighton LEN
Stonehenge builder CELT
Straw mats TATAMIS
Sullies TAINTS
Sunday seat PEW
Surroundings MILIEU
Temporary alliance COALITION
The big "eau" MER
The Little Corporal BONAPARTE
They have strings attached KITES
Took a taste SAMPLED
Top-notch AONE
Trojan War hero AJAX
Two by four? EIGHT
User's manual feature DIAGRAM
VW predecessors STU
Way to go PATH
Yes, in Yokohama HAI