L.A. Times Magazine - Mar 9 2008

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Clues Answers
"... leave the driving ___" TOUS
"Freezing" start CRYO
"Holy cow!" WOW
"Managed care" org. HMO
"The Fifth Beatle" ONO
"Why am ___ tired?" ISO
"__, yer mudder wears combat boots" AAH
8 on your dial TUV
A giant of a Giant OTT
Active type GOER
Active type DOER
Adenauer's nickname, Der ___ ALTE
Ancient ascetic ESSENE
Animated bug movie ANTZ
Bach cantata, ___, Joy of Man's Desiring JESU
Bakeries excite them SENSES
Barbarians GOTHS
Bare EMPTY
Before it gets crowded EARLY
Bengal and Fundy, e.g. BAYS
Big name in a/c TRANE
Breakfast order TWOEGGSEASY
Breaks a boxing rule THEBELTHITS
Brightly GAILY
British broadcaster BBC
Capri, par exemple ILE
Carries TOTES
Cav. member SGT
Certain jet MIG
Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. HRE
Chihuahua bear OSO
Choir member ALTO
Choose ELECT
Cole Porter classic MYSKINIVEGOTYOU
Cremey snacks OREOS
DNA sites GENES
Efforts PAINS
Em et al. AUNTIES
English-class mnemonic IECEXCEPT
Epee's cousin SABER
Erstwhile intelligence org. OSS
Fails to DOESNT
Finishes cakes ICES
Get in the game ANTE
Get ready (for surgery) PREP
Gillette razors ATRAS
Glitz penner Leonard ELMORE
Grand views VISTAS
Green gems JADES
Guns it STEPSTHEGAS
Gutsy aerialist's request NONET
Guy on the Kane set ORSON
Happy as a clam SITTINGTHEWORLD
Have ___ pick ABONETO
He hosted America's Funniest Home Videos SAGET
Helper: Abbr. ASST
Immature THEEARSWET
In any event ATLEAST
Indian tour stop AGRA
Involve ENGAGE
Iron emission STEAM
Italian rice dish RISOTTO
Joplin piece RAG
Julie Andrews film, Darling ___ LILI
Latticework pavilion GAZEBO
Leak sound HISS
Lewinsky's "friend" TRIPP
Liberal pursuits ARTS
Like some tuxes RENTED
Lilly of insulin fame ELI
Lon Chaney Jr. film, ___ of Dracula SON
Clues Answers
Made holy, variantly BLEST
McEntire et al. REBAS
Metal marble STEELIE
Minor deities DEMIGODS
Mixed bags OLIOS
Most in need of liniment ACHIEST
Mt. St. Helens spew ASH
NASA, for one: abbr. ADMIN
New England sch. MIT
No. 1 by a small margin ACUTTHEREST
Nome knife ULU
Nothing NIL
Ogre's cousin TROLL
One in pigtails SIS
Online mortgage broker that went public in June 1999 ELOAN
Orlando attraction EPCOT
Palindromic Nabokov novel ADA
Patch sticker BRIER
Patriot Allen ETHAN
Peruvian Indian INCA
Place LAY
Pontiac model GTO
Pop selections COLAS
Post-joke query GETIT
Post-renovation sign NOWOPEN
Prayer beads ROSARIES
QB's throw, completed or not ATT
Quetzalcoatl worshipper TOLTEC
Remain in class as punishment SCHOOLSTAY
Road work? ATLAS
Rock buys AMPS
Salt used in manufacturing BORAX
San Francisco-born photographer ADAMS
Saw features TEETH
Sea near steppes ARAL
Shields AVERTS
Signs OMENS
Singer Patti LABELLE
Sleuth's asset LOGIC
Smashing subject ATOM
Smoke signal? ALARM
Sorenstam's org. LPGA
Sporelike cells CYSTS
Stale TRITE
Star Trek role UHURA
Start of a Percy Sledge classic WHENA
Start of a U.S. capital DES
Styx passengers SOULS
Subway alternative CAB
Take a stab at TRY
The part of an ex-U.N. chief's name that doesn't occur twice GHALI
Thespian, e.g. ARTISTE
To the point TERSE
Together ASONE
Top quality? SPIN
Toyota model TERCEL
Truck ___ STOPS
True pain AGONY
Try to win, as auctioned items BIDON
Turk's neighbor SYRIAN
Type ILK
Unassuming MODEST
Understands what's implied THEREADSLINES
Up ___ (trapped) ATREE
Wag's comment about who should go first AGEBEAUTY
Waning years DOTAGE
Watt was one SCOT
Whitman's "Thou ___ Aloft Full-Dazzling" ORB
Wildcatter DRILLER
Word origins ETYMA
You're full of it WATER