L.A. Times Magazine - Aug 24 2008

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Clues Answers
"... can't believe ___ the whole thing" IATE
"Cool your jets" WAIT
"It's A Gift" star FIELDS
"Michelle" et al. LOVESONGS
"Oliver Twist" baddie FAGIN
"Peg ___ Heart" OMY
"Platoon" star DAFOE
"R.U.R." author Capek KAREL
"Scram!" GIT
"___ little confused" IMA
"___ you're sitting down ..." IHOPE
'52 VIP IKE
2000 film based on Marvel Comics mutants XMEN
Accelerate, with "up" REV
Acclaim ECLAT
Actress Christine LAHTI
Actress Sandra DEE
Actress Taylor LILI
Advice column intro DEARANN
Agcy. ORG
Aide: Abbr. ASST
Amos was one, in the Bible FIGFARMER
Ancestry LINEAGE
Appliance maker AMANA
At ___ (gratis) NOCOST
Bake shop items PIES
Balloon material? LEAD
Be duplicitous LIE
Be inquisitive ASK
Breakfast cereal made especially for the convention? KELLOGGSCORNFLAGS
Bus. section abbr. AMEX
Busby Berkeley's real last name ENOS
Butter containers TUBS
Buyway? AISLE
Canadian Indian CREE
Charge holder CAPACITOR
Come up ARISE
Common people PLEBS
Compass pt. NNE
Compos mentis SANE
Consults SEES
Convention breakfast topics? SPEECHESANDCREAM
Coral, for one SEA
Corrida victim ELTORO
Criticism FLAK
Deducer's word ERGO
Depend RELY
Disney's Dwarfs, e.g. SEPTET
Doughnut-shaped TORIC
Dr. Alzheimer ALOIS
Edit, as a crossword RECLUE
Elite unit ATEAM
Enclosure CAGE
Flying, for ex. TRAV
Former studio RKO
Four on some old clocks IIII
Fraught RIFE
Gen. Bradley in "Patton" MALDEN
Gets used (to) ADAPTS
Global currency org. IMF
Half of CIV LII
Hannibal's dad, Hamilcar ___ BARCA
He's the surreal deal DALI
Hefty fruit MELON
High-rise features ELEVATORS
Humphrey's "High Sierra" co-star IDA
Hypnotic dominator SVENGALI
Ice cream alternatives ICES
Inconsistent ERRATIC
Inspirational reading for Democrats? DONKEYXOTE
It might have a cadenza ARIA
Clues Answers
It's W of Corpus Christi MEX
Key loc. FLA
Lanchester et al. ELSAS
Last word AMEN
Laugh start HAR
Less likely to bite TAMER
Lime drink ADE
Lion's tail? ESS
Little bit SCINTILLA
Little bit IOTA
Little handful IMP
Long time EON
Marty Allen's signature greeting, "Hello ___!" DERE
Meadow LEA
Memory ___ LAPSE
New York City nightspot ELAINES
Nine-digit no. issuer SSA
Nutmeg State sch. UCONN
Ochoa's gold ORO
Of kidneys RENAL
Oglers EYERS
Overdoes it onstage EMOTES
P.P.O.'s kin HMO
Parlor game CHARADES
Parochial SECTARIAN
Part of a play ACTII
Part of S. Amer. ARG
Passes OKS
Path to enlightenment ZEN
Phobia start ACRO
Pooch classic LADADOG
Raced TORE
Saver's option IRA
Scoring area ENDZONE
See 57 Across FROMCAMPAIGNS
Singer Bonnie RAITT
Slangy beer SUDS
Smoke solids TAR
Some church music MOTETS
Some matériel AMMO
Spanish article LAS
Spanish hero ELCID
Sternum branches RIBS
Stretched CRANED
Stroller's aid CANE
Superman's other name KALEL
Superman's other name KENT
Swagger STRUT
Swift brute YAHOO
Talented Turner LANA
Texas city ODESSA
The day before the election, e.g. EVE
The Impaler et al. VLADS
The ones here THESE
Theater backdrop SCRIM
Things to gird LOINS
Trick stick WAND
Tuition, e.g. FEE
TV's Spenser URICH
Twelve guys walked on it MOON
U.S. Olympic legend THORPE
Walking ___ ONAIR
Wall-to-wall convention decor? AVASTBANNERAMA
What convention goers hope to achieve? ADELEGATEBALANCE
What convention speakers stand on? THEGOODOLDDAIS
Why Democratic symbols aren't seen at Republican conventions? THEYREIRRELEPHANT
With "itis," a cold RHIN
With "meter," a wind gauge ANEMO
With 64 Across, a tired conventioneer's plaint? IGETNOKICK
___ fingerprinting DNA
___ school PREP