L.A. Times Daily - Oct 10 2008

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"Airplane!" heroine ELAINE
"Big Girl in the Middle" co-author Gabrielle REECE
"Tuesdays With __": 1997 best-seller MORRIE
"__ the opinion ..." IMOF
42-Across members DRS
Actress Meyers ARI
Add to the staff? NOTATE
Ancient Greek contest AGON
Ballpark rallying cry based on a 1950s hit DAYO
Black or Red SEA
Bouquets for the diva? STAGEPRESENTS
Brit. mil. awards DSOS
California's __ Altos LOS
Classes ILKS
Contradict BELIE
Cycle opening EPI
Dick TEC
Disapproving sounds TSKTSK
Drug used in old CIA mind-control experiments LSD
El __ PASO
Fairy tale mattress lump PEA
Fluctuate wildly YOYO
French possessive SES
Gobble EAT
Got ready for a lap dog SAT
Grate RILE
Greedy sort PIG
Harbor groups of strikers? PUTUPRESISTANTS
Hit hard against PELT
Holden Caulfield, e.g. NARRATOR
Horned grazer GNU
Hypochondriacs? EXTREMEPATIENTS
Incandescent bulb gas ARGON
Initialed, perhaps OKD
Joe's "Midnight Cowboy" pal RATSO
Leaders in a race? FRONTENTRANTS
Like Berg's opera "Wozzeck" ATONAL
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Like many a college sophomore NINETEEN
Like some R-rated movie scenes STEAMY
Long time EON
Longtime nemesis OLDENEMY
Make EARN
Marilyn's birth name NORMA
Mouse alternative? MAN
Nasty "Pearls Before Swine" character RAT
Opus __: "The Da Vinci Code" sect DEI
Org. for 47-Across AMA
Parenting VIPs EDS
Past, for one TENSE
Pitcher Glavine TOM
Prize money PURSE
Pup squeak YIP
Real ending ISM
Recipients of some TV his MOMS
Release, as from an obligation EXEMPT
Scopes trial org. ACLU
Shih-__: mixed breed POO
Shoots, sci-fi style ZAPS
Some swing seats TIRES
Something to lend or bend EAR
Square in old Rome? XVI
Star part, often TITLEROLE
Subaru models TRIBECAS
Subjects of a parental caution STRANGERS
Sydney suburb REDFERN
Tale with a memorable horse ILIAD
Tepid assent IGUESS
To have, in Tours AVOIR
Trailer for an old movie festival? MINUTEOFSILENTS
Uncle Scrooge, for one SCOT
Viennese center? ENS
Vitality ZING
Wife, in legalese UXOR
You might ask a waiter to give you one SEC