L.A. Times Sunday - Oct 5 2008

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Clues Answers
"--- by with a little help ..." IGET
"Am --- believe ...?" ITO
"But --- art?" ISIT
"Funny Face"'s Fred ASTAIRE
"Gotcha!" AHA
"High School Musical" extra TEEN
"It is --- for!" TODIE
"Peanuts" expletive RATS
"Picnic" playwright INGE
"Rent" or "Bent" PLAY
"Taxi Driver" director Martin SCORSESE
"The Devil's Disciple" dramatist's disciples SHAVIANS
"Vast wasteland" coiner Newton MINOW
"We hold --- truths ..." THESE
"Whale Rider" people MAORI
"You're --- talk!" ONETO
1960s Chevrolet model CORVAIR
African antelope ELAND
Animal house DEN
Atoll taken in WWII TARAWA
Battery a waterway away? CELLDOWNTHERIVER
Boca ---, Fla. RATON
Breakroom brewer URN
Burdensome ONEROUS
By, in Baja POR
Bygone current unit? OTTOMANAMPERE
Cabernet containers CASKS
Cabins and condos ABODES
Calcutta butter GHEE
Came to a mean AVERAGED
Casca's "in the year" ANNO
Churlish UNCOUTH
Cinderella's "horses" MICE
Copacetic AOK
Craggy peak TOR
Creating cornrows BRAIDING
Crime show concerns MOTIVES
Doorstep staple MAT
Drops from the sky RAIN
Eerie asset ESP
Eight, in Umbria OTTO
Encore episode RERUN
Energy burglars? JOULETHIEVES
Ewe call MAA
Explosive inits. TNT
Factor ELEMENT
False alarm SCARE
Fender dent DING
Five Nations members SENECAS
Florence's --- Palace PITTI
Formidable tots TERRORS
Franc replacement EURO
Freight weight TON
Fudge ingred. CHOC
Godiva goodies BONBONS
Goofs ERRS
Grant player ASNER
Has debts OWES
He was the son of Nun JOSHUA
Hit the deck with a mop SWAB
Hotel name of fame RITZ
Huge deluges TORRENTS
Hullabaloo UPROAR
In that case THEN
Insecure potential unit? NOCONFIDENCEVOLT
Insured COVERED
Kazantzakis title character ZORBA
Kibbutzim, for instance COMMUNES
Kickoffs OUTSETS
Clues Answers
Kind of bar or blanket WET
Knight trainee SQUIRE
Lake near Las Vegas MEAD
Large vat TUN
Latin land TERRA
LBJ's was great SOCIETY
Like a bucket of song OAKEN
Like Nash's lama ONEL
Like some sheep UNSHORN
Lion-colored TAWNY
Log JOURNAL
Look into power presently? SEEWATTSNEXT
Low digit TOE
Luau strings UKE
Make over REDO
Marginal scribbler DOODLER
Mellencamp's ode to frequency? HERTZSOGOOD
Merkel of the movies UNA
Merriment CHEER
More nuanced SUBTLER
More timeworn DUSTIER
Moronic lead-in OXY
Most chipper SPRYEST
Oomph ZEST
Ordinal ending ETH
Oscar winner Bardem JAVIER
PC display LCD
Pitchers EWERS
Pizarro's prize ORO
Place LAY
Plum, cherry and beefsteak TOMATOES
Plumbing joint ELL
Portend BODE
Pro's opposer ANTI
Puts to rest INTERS
Q.v. part VIDE
Qualify ENTITLE
Repeats verbatim QUOTES
Road map abbr. RTE
Schools EDUCATES
Scout group TROOP
Shells/such AMMO
Sign up with again REJOIN
Skiing category ALPINE
Small merganser SMEW
Smiley of PBS TAVIS
Snarl ENTANGLE
Snoop PRY
Solitary sort LONER
Some salon services DYEJOBS
Someone with seniority ELDER
Speech spot DAIS
Steeper? TEABAG
Stones' "--- So Cold" SHES
Sun Valley locale IDAHO
The skinny INFO
They sit for SAT TESTEES
They're for fare use CABS
Tipplers SOTS
USPS piece LTR
VCR alternative TIVO
Vinyl tile alternative LINOLEUM
Virtuoso Isaac STERN
Western resistance unit? OHMONTHERANGE
Wild hog BOAR
Williamson of "Excalibur" NICOL
Withered SERE
Woodworking tool ROUTER
Word in many a sequel title RETURNS