L.A. Times Daily - Mar 1 2009

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Clues Answers
"Ben-Hur" author Wallace LEW
"Chances __" ARE
"Chocolat" actress OLIN
"Come to think of it ..." SAY
"Did it!" TADA
"Draft Dodger Rag" singer OCHS
"From __ Zinc": vitamin slogan ATO
"Gosh darn!" HECK
"Michael Collins" org. IRA
"Peg Woffington" author READE
"Well done!" CONGRATS
"Well, it's __" ASTART
"__ Confessions": 2002 Disney film TRU
.000001 meters MICRON
77-Across is one OPERA
Abrasive substances EMERIES
Aerobics class aid STEP
Afternoon market activity LATETRADING
Alley pickups SPARES
Any inert element GAS
Applies, as a decal PRESSESON
Approach maturity ADOLESCE
Arrived in a cloud of dust SLID
Auction prop GAVEL
Beehive State natives UTES
Beethoven's Third EROICA
Break time for many TEN
Bright star NOVA
Brits' buggies PRAMS
Bull: Pref. TAURO
Cavaradossi's lover TOSCA
Cedar Rapids college COE
Ceramics or basket weaving CRAFT
Chisholm Trail terminus ABILENE
Clinton said he didn't do it INHALE
Clue board section ROOM
Copernicus's sci. ASTR
Cote call BAA
Court game half? JAI
Credit card transaction CASHADVANCE
Dais VIPs EMCEES
Defunct GM line OLDS
Diarist Anaïs NIN
Dixie loaves PONES
Double x double x double OCTUPLE
Down in the dumps GLOOMY
Drum kit item SNARE
Elissa of "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934) LANDI
Engraver Albrecht DURER
Explain away, with "over" GLOSS
Fancy jug EWER
Fitness expert Austin DENISE
Flimflam man CHARLATAN
Glider wood BALSA
Google Earth feature AIRMAP
Great destruction HAVOC
Great Trek figure BOER
Green shampoo brand PRELL
Grounds crew supply SOD
Half a rack ANTLER
Hambletonian paces TROTS
Hardly prevalent SPARSE
Hawaii's "Valley Isle" MAUI
Hippo's backside? DROME
Honest-to-goodness ACTUAL
Hosp. picture MRI
Hundred: Pref. HECTO
Hustlers? DISCODANCERS
Immortal Canadian jazz pianist OSCARPETERSON
In other words, to Nero IDEST
Ironman event TRIATHLON
Jimmy's successor RON
Clues Answers
Juke box inserts ONES
Lift up ELATE
Like some tea ICED
Little fellow TYKE
Los Angeles district ENCINO
Luau fare TARO
Luau garb MUUMUU
Lumbering loner ROGUEELEPHANT
Maid in "Die Fledermaus" ADELE
May race, for short INDY
Maze scurrier RAT
Mellow RIPEN
Miler's quartet, maybe LAPS
Milk-related LACTIC
Moving sply. CTN
Mushy fare PAP
Name on a mower DEERE
NASA "walk" EVA
NASCAR __ DAD
Nile threat ASP
Nipper's co. RCA
No-goodniks BADMEN
Nogales's state SONORA
Nonpro sports gp. AAU
Not in stock yet ONORDER
Novelist Bellow SAUL
Ollie's clownlike friend KUKLA
Out early ONPAROLE
Pageant topper TIARA
Parade VIP STPAT
Perched on ATOP
Poet's Muse ERATO
Polite turndown NOSIR
Pre-sign sign STOPAHEAD
Prelude to an injury, sometimes DARE
Prepare for more shooting RELOAD
Razz JEER
Reporter on the go LEGMAN
Retro photo SEPIA
Running together CONFLUENT
Scottish literary monogram RLS
Seating need: Abbr. TKT
Shannon's county CLARE
She funded Manhattan's Strawberry Fields memorial ONO
She played WKRP's Jennifer LONI
Sheikdom of song ARABY
Six-pt. plays TDS
Some research aides PARAS
Spoil, as a parade RAINON
Start to smell, maybe ROT
Subtle emanations AURAS
Suicide squeeze stat RBI
Tach units REVS
Tandem mover PEDAL
Tandoori bread NAN
The mad scientist usually has one LABASSISTANT
The reporter who accused her retracted his story in 1893 MRSOLEARY
Three-star rank: Abbr. LTGEN
Thrice, in Rx's TER
Tick off IRK
Todd Palin ancestor, e.g. YUPIKESKIMO
Toward dawn EAST
Transients, often BOARDERS
Trivial point NIT
Ululated BAYED
Walk of Fame implant STAR
Wall St. debut IPO
Wheedler's tactic GUILE
Wild outbreak RIOT
Yahoo RUBE
[We'll tell you later]: Abbr. TBA
__-country: music genre ALT