L.A. Times Magazine - Oct 12 2008

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Clues Answers
"And the Band Played On" author Randy SHILTS
"Eureka!" AHA
"GoodFellas" Oscar-winner PESCI
"I smell ___" ARAT
"In excelsis ___" DEO
"Mad Men" channel AMC
"Platoon" setting NAM
"Where do ___?" ISIGN
"___ far, far better ..." ITISA
"___ saying goes ..." ASTHE
Actor Holm IAN
Actress Skye IONE
Adam's madam EVE
Afterthought No. 2 PPS
Air safety org. FAA
Animated character TOON
Apron wearer BAKER
Arnold and Brady TOMS
Artist Al (and a hint to the theme) HIRSCHFELD
Atomic vessel, in headlines NSUB
Aunt with a "Cope" book ERMA
Author Ambler ERIC
Authors' assn. WGA
Barely making EKINGOUT
Big help in tax season CPA
Big-game plain SERENGETI
Birds, to Brutus AVES
Bk. before Daniel EZEK
Brand of camera NIKON
Brand of pasta RONZONI
Bright and open AIRY
Captain's place HELM
Certain winning streak TENINAROW
Child pluralizer REN
Colo. neighbor KAN
Course of action PLAN
Daughter of Ingrid PIA
Does again, as a role REPRISES
Emulates Jay-Z RAPS
Feline favorite CATNIP
Frances Bavier role AUNTBEE
Galatea's love ACIS
Gather, as crops REAP
Grabby one TAKER
Groundwater: abbr. SPR
Grousing spouse NAG
Gun for hire HITMAN
Guys you wipe your feet on? MATTS
Halfpint around Mayberry OPIE
Hard rain HAIL
He wrote "Marty" PADDY
Heartthrob IDOL
High school test PSAT
High up, in Tampico ALTA
Highest: abbr. ULT
Hollywood Garson KANIN
Holy peo. STS
Hotel floor MEZZANINE
House layer? HEN
House mbr. REP
Humors INDULGES
In awe AGAPE
In decline WANING
It may be on tap in taprooms ALE
Kidney, for one BEAN
Latin I verb AMAS
Leaning Tower city resident PISAN
Lessened EASED
Like a gem OPALINE
Like some airport laws ANTINOISE
Locked up INSTIR
Losable, as file data UNSAVED
Lunatic utterances RAVINGS
Manipulator USER
Marx Brothers' forte ZANINESS
Clues Answers
Melville milieu SEA
Mercator's sci. GEOG
Met by accident RANINTO
Milo or Tessie OSHEA
Mindless worker? ROBOT
Mouths, in biology ORA
Muckraker Tarbell IDA
Mug whump? SLAP
Neck of the woods AREA
Nickname in film BOGIE
Not under ATOP
Novak's first KIM
Nylon woe SNAG
Of soldiers: abbr. MIL
Old nuclear org. AEC
On ___ (away) ATRIP
Otherworldly ALIEN
Pal of Romeo MERCUTIO
Palindromic writer NIN
Part of a flight? STAIR
Part of a plane's name ENOLA
Pinch NAB
Pinkerton symbol EYE
Plasm preceder ECTO
Playwright, initially GBS
Pointed arch OGIVE
Poli-sci suffix ISM
Prefix meaning 20 ICOSA
Prop in table tennis NET
Prophet addition ESS
Quotable Yankee YOGI
Raised by actors, perhaps BORNINATRUNK
River duck PINTAIL
Road offense: abbr. DWI
Routine dental visit CLEANING
RR stop STN
Ruhr Valley city ESSEN
Salinger girl ESME
Sarnoff ran it RCA
Scot's cap TAM
See 81 Across AMAT
Shooters' org.? NBA
Showy moths IOS
Skin pigment MELANIN
Sleuth played by 4 Down SPADE
Slow cooker STEWPOT
Soliloquy start TOBE
Some math sets LOCI
Some solos ARIAS
Sometimes called AKA
Soon, in sonnets ERELONG
Spiteful NASTY
Stage honors OBIES
Start of a guess ISIT
Sticker in your sock BUR
Storied elephant BABAR
Straighten ALIGN
Stupor prefix NARCO
Swings and a slide PLAYSET
Ted Turner bought it in '96 MGMUA
Terrier's teeth? CANINES
The concealed items in this puzzle, perhaps (see NOTEPAD for instructions on "how to play") GAMEPIECES
They may vie for attention TEAMS
Three-card hustle MONTE
Thumbs-up replies AOKS
Tin-Tin intro RIN
Tolstoy heroine ANNAKARENINA
Trophy PRIZE
Wagging parts? TONGUES
Wartime pres. ABE
With, to Sarkozy AVEC
Xanadu's landlord KANE
Yodeler's setting ALP
Young hooter OWLET
Zigzagged SNAKED