L.A. Times Sunday - Mar 1 2009

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Clues Answers
"--- a deal" ITS
"--- for Noose" NIS
"For shame!" FIE
"Hasta ---" FUEGO
"Java" jazz player HIRT
"Lethal Weapon" director Richard DONNER
"Life --- cabaret ..." ISA
"One of --- days ..." THESE
"Parallel Lives" writer PLUTARCH
"That Thing ---" YOUDO
"Volver" director PEDROALMODOVAR
--- usual ASPER
Adjective for Abby DEAR
Amusement venue of yore PENNYARCADE
Andrea --- DORIA
Anesthetic gas ETHENE
Angie Dickinson's TV cop PEPPERANDERSON
Apology opener MEA
Applying incorrectly MISUSING
Band of eight OCTET
Big-screen beekeeper ALEE
Blotto OILED
Bound LEAP
Brown shade UMBER
Burdened FADES
Bygone fleet fliers SSTS
Camaro --- -Z IROC
Caribou kin ELK
Churchill's "so few" RAF
Civil rights crusader Morris DEES
CNN's late debate show CROSSFIRE
Complete ENTIRE
Conflicted TORN
Cornerstone word ANNO
Courteous concurrence YESMAAM
Criminal trial concern INTENT
Cyrillic for USSR CCCP
Dadaist Jean ARP
Develop gradually GESTATE
Dionysian women MAENADS
Discord deity ERIS
Do-well start NEER
Done in SLAIN
Dow Jones data AVERAGES
Drama, dance and such PERFORMINGARTS
Electrician's alloy SOLDER
Euro predecessor PESETA
Flushed FLORID
Footnote abbr. LOC
French she ELLE
Fruit farm ORCHARD
Gets flushed REDDENS
Go by ELAPSE
Grad-to-be SENIOR
Grand opening? CHASM
Grimm story TALE
Hearty partner HALE
Horace Rumpole's wife HILDA
Impedes legally ESTOPS
In want NEEDY
Iroquois League nation SENECA
It may be put on the spot TOUPEE
Kind of song or dive SWAN
Kuwaiti currency DINAR
Latin "you love" AMAS
Laugh riot SCREAM
Least affable ICIEST
Like a roc AVIAN
Clues Answers
Like Snow White FAIREST
Lunchbox bottle THERMOS
Malt shop options SHAKES
Marked by moral collapse DECADENT
Mary Poppins and Fran Fine NANNIES
McGregor of "Moulin Rouge!" EWAN
Memorial marker STELE
Name in the headlines NEWSMAKER
Nicholas II's house ROMANOV
Nipper's co. RCA
Not covered, in a way UNINSURED
Novelist Jong ERICA
Numbered rds. RTES
Oakland team, to fans THEAS
Observed SEEN
Old Olds model REO
Out for the night ASLEEP
Overhauls REDESIGNS
Paw parts PADS
Pig in --- APOKE
Pitcher EWER
Pitching great Warren SPAHN
Plant aka garden rocket ARUGULA
Playwright Fugard ATHOL
Poker player's asset DEADPAN
Poker token CHIP
Positions ORIENTS
Prefix with gon DECA
Proliferates SPREADS
Rail RANT
Reno-to-L.A. dir. SSE
Right of passage PUBLICEASEMENT
Riverdale High boy ARCHIE
Rockers Procol --- HARUM
Ruhr River city ESSEN
Ruth's retired number THREE
Sault --- Marie STE
Savoir-faire TACT
Scot's not NAE
Severe blow GALE
Sheets and pillowcases REDLINES
Shot spot ARM
Sites for studs PIERCEDEARS
So THUS
Soap-on- --- AROPE
Some Bosnians SERRA
Some pickles DILLS
Soul of France AME
Spartan AUSTERE
Spike/Harper LEES
Spine line TITLE
Spring in the desert OASIS
Stage's Hagen UTA
Stir ROUSE
String of things SERIES
Structural support TRUSS
Swedish shag RYA
Swiss range PENNINEALPS
Tag line PRICE
Taken in HAD
Terra PLANETEARTH
Textile trademark ARNEL
The works ALL
Till bills ONES
Time-half link ANDA
Wither DRYUP
Wobbled TEETERED
Young boxers PAPA