L.A. Times Daily - Aug 2 2016

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Clues Answers
"Middlemarch" novelist GEORGEELIOT
"My bad" OOPS
"New Hampshire's Gate City" NASHUA
"What __ is new?" ELSE
*Beef cut TOPROUNDSTEAK
*Many a smartphone download FREERINGTONE
*Traction aid for off-road vehicles ALLWHEELDRIVE
1976 Olympics star Comaneci NADIA
Abbr. in an abbreviated list ETAL
Academic address ending EDU
Application file suffix EXE
Apply daintily DAB
Baseball club BAT
Blades cut by a blade LAWN
Butter-and-flour sauce thickener ROUX
Capriciousness WHIMSY
Carne __: burrito filling ASADA
Clapton woman who's "got me on my knees" LAYLA
Clean Air Act org EPA
Cockeyed ASKEW
Cranberry quality TANG
Crossword diagram GRID
Director Anderson WES
Duvet filler EIDER
European volcano that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ETNA
Fair-hiring abbr EOE
Farm grunt OINK
Fired from the job AXED
Frat party garb TOGAS
Fried corn bread PONE
Gather a bit at a time GLEAN
Gavel-pounding demand ORDER
Good to go, at NASA AOK
Graduate-to-be SENIOR
Head in a capital: Abbr GOV
Hearty meal STEW
Home Depot purchase TOOL
In the buff NUDE
Clues Answers
Influential groups, and what each of the answers to starred clues contains INNERCIRCLES
Knocks RAPS
Lightning follower THUNDER
October birthstone OPAL
Part of a storm or a needle EYE
Part of a window shutter SLAT
Part of MYOB OWN
Pasta often served alla vodka PENNE
PBS "Science Guy" Bill NYE
Phased-out jets SSTS
Poetic tribute ODE
Police COPS
Radiates happiness GLOWS
Row at Dodger Stadium TIER
RR station postings SKEDS
Russian denial NYET
Says 17-Across, say GOOFS
Shake an Etch A Sketch, e.g ERASE
Shoot down, in a way REBUT
Sincere EARNEST
Singer Simone NINA
Site with "Health A-Z" guides WEBMD
Solve, as a cipher DECODE
Song of praise PAEAN
Spider-Man Parker PETER
Stare in astonishment GAPE
Stirred up ROILED
They're usually on a roll PAPERTOWELS
Three sheets to the wind STINKO
To the left, at sea APORT
Uber alternative TAXI
Up to the time when UNTIL
Viola's sect STR
Wields power REIGNS
Wisk rival ERA
Woodland deity SATYR
Words upon making out a distant image ISEEIT
__ race RAT