L.A. Times Magazine - Dec 14 2008

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Clues Answers
"Another 48 ___" HRS
"Dr. Strangelove" pilot, T.J. "King" ___ (played by Slim Pickens) KONG
"Gross!" UGH
"Hi and Lois" daughter DOT
"I thought so!" AHA
"Is that an order?" MUSTI
"Ooh" follower LALA
"SNL" alumna OTERI
"The Taking of ___ One Two Three" PELHAM
"___ little teapot ..." IMA
"___ of Honey" ATASTE
"___ soup yet?" ISIT
A Mother and others TERESAS
Actor Beatty NED
Actor Hayakawa of "River Kwai" fame SESSUE
Actor Santoni RENI
Allowing draining, as some spoons SLOTTED
Are, in Quebec ETES
Art rock group, Procol ___ HARUM
Author Balzac HONORE
Away from the wind ALEE
Be sentenced to GET
Beach shelter RAMADA
Blackjack dealer's box SHOE
Brightly hued fish OPAH
Brown-truck co. UPS
C.S. Lewis book, "___ Christianity" MERE
California player LAKER
Call off, at Canaveral ABORT
Churlish chap BOOR
City near Kansas City OLATHE
Common rhyme scheme ABAB
Complacent SMUG
Cove's cousin INLET
Creator of sleuth Nero REX
Dairy regulator: abbr. USDA
Does as directed OBEYS
Donatien Alphonse Francois de ___ SADE
Economist Smith ADAM
Fab rival ALL
Fabled flyers ROCS
Feeds, as a fire STOKES
Fencing weapon EPEE
Filters PERCOLATES
Giuliani and others RUDYS
Good name for a Hawaiian coffee shop? THEKONADRUGSTORE
Grant portrayer ASNER
Grayer golfers: abbr. SRS
Great balls of fire SUNS
Great Lakes city ERIE
Grp. ORG
Hawaiian souvenir made from corn chips? FRITOLEI
Hawaiian tourist's exclamation? YIPPEEOAHU
He ran with Dole in 1996 KEMP
He's had ten too many SOT
He's Hank in "Touch of Evil" ORSON
Heap content ASH
Hebrew month (not Dracula's mother) SHEBAT
Home of skaters Baiul and Kwan USA
Horse hair MANE
Hot coal at a Hawaiian cookout? (with apologies to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) LUAUCINDER
Humiliated ASHAMED
Hyannisport guy TED
Ill-fated weaver of myth ARACHNE
In there, sports-wise SAFE
Intensify ESCALATE
It stops traffickers: abbr. DEA
It's just below lieut. jr. grade ENS
Jed Clampett portrayer EBSEN
Juanita's week SEMANA
Kafka's insect ROACH
Kin of arrogance EGO
Clues Answers
Latin abbr. ETAL
Leader of the Mel-Tones TORME
Less, um, aromatic STINKIER
Like a broker going broke IRONIC
Like sardines OILY
Love poetry Muse ERATO
Luke's father DARTH
Make clean and bright SCOUR
Mast, yard, boom, or gaff SPAR
Mater preceder ALMA
Miscue for Tiger BOGEY
Nonplussed ATALOSS
Not as LESS
Objects, perhaps SAYSNO
On the ___ (fleeing) LAM
One in search of Hawaiian food? POISCOUT
Opposite of 54 Down OUT
Palindromic widow ONO
Passport datum SEX
Pikes Peak state: abbr. COLO
Places for cut flowers VASES
Poet's first name MAYA
Purple hue LILAC
Puts on grass skirts and Hawaiian shirts? SHIFTSTOALOHAGEAR
Quantrill's forte RAID
Quick impression APERCU
Radio choices AMFM
Ramon's room SALA
Rap sheet abbr. AKA
Record of a meeting MINUTES
River of York OUSE
Rock formation ARCH
Safire subject USAGE
Schedule AGENDA
Scorch SEAR
Shop sign OPEN
Shortening TRUNCATION
Shrivels WITHERS
Singer Campbell GLEN
Six-legged bands TRIOS
Small denomination? SECT
Some crystals ICE
Some time or another ONEDAY
Sri Lankans, e.g. ASIANS
Start of an act SCENEI
Stinging quality NIP
Stove setting HIGH
Surety provider BAILSMAN
Sylvan setting LEA
Teller's word NEXT
Thick drink SHAKE
This second ATONCE
Tilt-nose jet SST
Title of an exposГ© about Hawaiian dancers? HOTLIPSHULAHANDS
Tokyo's island HONSHU
Tourist's first impression of Hawaii? EVERYWHEREAMUUMUU
Travis's last stand ALAMO
U.S.-Can.-Mex. pact NAFTA
Used car, maybe REPO
Vegas verb BET
Venerates EXALTS
Vocal versatility RANGE
W Kentucky city PADUCAH
Watercolor on wet plaster FRESCO
West Indian witchcraft OBEAH
Whisky's Walker HIRAM
Without value NULL
Word in a 2006 Bond title ROYALE
Word of protest BUT
___ homer HITSA
___ the ocean ASDEEPAS
___ ultra (the best) NEPLUS