L.A. Times Magazine - Apr 20 2008

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Clues Answers
"Relax, man!" CHILL
"Wait ___!" AMINUTE
"___ Blue?" AMI
"___ smile on your face" PUTA
"___ you, buddy!" SAMETO
1956 tune, "Since ___ You Baby" IMET
1971 Doors song or album LAWOMAN
1980 special, Life Is ___, Charlie Brown ACIRCUS
2004 also-ran NADER
55 Down's degree MBA
Actress Ward SELA
adj. able to bypass a key-based security device (said of burglars,escape artists, etc.) CIRCUMLOCUTORY
adj. afraid of being injected HYPOALLERGENIC
adj. containing an excessive amount of compost TUMULTUOUS
adj. pert. to humorous vignettes SKITTISH
adj. tending to bump into the bed when hurrying in the dark RAMBUNCTIOUS
Agar colony CULTURE
Amahl's visitors MAGI
Assumes the role of ACTSAS
Author Harte BRET
Baseball's "Fish" MARLINS
Beethoven's Third EROICA
Best FINEST
Bleacher feature ROW
Board honcho CEO
Bother RILE
Brit. legislators MPS
Bump off WHACK
Busy TIEDUP
C _ _ T O M _ _ USER
Capacitance unit FARAD
Carved stone that's almost a name STELA
Circe's all-vowel island AEAEA
Clay-pigeon sport SKEET
Come ___ (think of) UPWITH
Computer's core, briefly CPU
Connie in The Godfather TALIA
Cruising level, for ex. ALT
Cup material TIN
Curtis's Houdini co-star LEIGH
D.C.'s Kennedy, for ex. CTR
Declaims ORATES
Draw ___ on (aim at) ABEAD
Drum major's cap SHAKO
End a shutdown REOPEN
Eucharist plate PATEN
Fleur-de-___ LIS
Gangster's gun GAT
Gaze in ___ AWE
Girder type HBEAM
Give the slip to ELUDE
Give up the pigskin PUNT
Going ___ (fighting) ATIT
Gossipmonger YENTA
Greek H ETA
Grow together KNIT
Hat trick unit GOAL
Head hawk on Olympus ARES
Hi-fi platters LPS
Hi-tech GM car option ONSTAR
Hirer of V. Plame CIA
HMO members DOCS
Horrid AWFUL
Hostess cake treat SNOBALL
Humorist Bombeck ERMA
Impact sound WHAM
Inflation cause? AIR
Intensifies, informally AMPSUP
KFC side order SLAW
Kvetcher's cry OYVEY
Clues Answers
La-la intro OOH
Lay down the lawn RESOD
Less ruddy PALER
Lib. inventory BKS
Lose ground, literally ERODE
Magazine contents AMMO
Makeup artist Westmore PERC
Marriages UNIONS
Mechanize AUTOMATE
Melt together FUSE
Mesa cousins BUTTES
Meteor's tail? ITE
Monarch, to Monet ROI
Most "aww"-inspiring CUTEST
Mountain leveler TNT
n. affliction common to rodeo clowns BRONCHITIS
n. any large convalescent home RESTITUTION
n. chairs, sofas, etc., that are hard to sit on (see "pew") DISCOMFITURE
n. school that teaches how to write commercials ADVERSITY
n. slang a dollar bill BUCKAROO
Neighbor of E DSHARP
No-frills BASIC
Number after tres CUATRO
Ohio team, on scoreboards CIN
Ollie's chum STAN
On an ___ EGOTRIP
ons, initially LDS
Outline CONTOUR
Paltry MERE
Party supply ICE
Pentathlon props EPEES
Pipe shape ELL
Playground retort CANTOO
Pro ___ (for now) TEM
Regretted RUED
Returning words IMBACK
Run ___ bill UPA
Rustic excursions HAYRIDES
Sacred chests ARKS
Self-satisfied SMUG
Selleck film, ___ Alibi HER
Sitcom diner MELS
Some scores, briefly TDS
Sometime sale site YARD
Songs of praise PAEANS
Sony co-founder Morita AKIO
Squealer SNITCH
Star quality GLAMOR
Strauss's "Also ___ Zarathustra" SPRACH
Sugar Loaf setting RIO
Sunny saison ETE
Surgeon summoner BEEPER
Take care of SEETO
Tomato variety ROMA
Took off FLED
Tower designer EIFFEL
Two-piece suit BIKINI
Urge to vent, perhaps IRE
v. to reverse the maturing process of wine or beer DEFERMENT
Vexes IRKS
Wager more than OUTBET
Ward of Warbucks ANNIE
Washer or checker DISC
Weasel's cousin STOAT
Wiener holder BUN
With no hair apparent BALD
Zodiac critter CRAB
___ diem CARPE
___ extra cost ATNO
___ return (investment concern) RATEOF