L.A. Times Daily - Jul 16 2009

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Clues Answers
"Black Bottom Stomp" jazz pianist JELLYROLLMORTON
"Boola Boola" singer YALIE
"Excuse me ..." AHEM
"__-daisy!" UPSA
'60s dance WATUSI
15-Across, translated ILOVE
1892 Leoncavallo opera PAGLIACCI
Air TUNE
Arizona cultural resort SEDONA
Astro's cap insignia STAR
Ballpark souvenirs YEARBOOKS
Basic language trio opener AMO
Bettor's question, and a hint to this puzzle's theme WHATSTHESPREAD
Border on ABUT
Call from the flock AMEN
Choreographer Reinking ANN
Chutzpah NERVE
College football's Black Knights ARMY
Comparative words ASAN
Corp. leaders CEOS
Course half NINE
Defeatist's word CANT
Down SAD
English blue cheese STILTON
Flipping burgers, e.g. MCJOB
Gets faint DIMS
Golfer's traction aid CLEAT
Gray's "The Bard," e.g. ODE
Guitarist Lofgren NILS
He "used to be the next president" GORE
Heifetz's teacher AUER
Household nickname SIS
In concert ASONE
Is indisposed AILS
It may be half-baked IDEA
Knock around ROAM
Clues Answers
Lecherous sort ROUE
Like inverted Jenny stamps RARE
Lima variety BUTTERBEAN
Marshlike MIRY
New Orleans university TULANE
Not squander USE
Novelist Bagnold ENID
Nutritional fig. RDA
Old-fashioned remedy for chest colds MUSTARDPLASTER
On a slant: Abbr. OBL
Pay attention to HEED
Pay closing OLA
Place for a ring TOE
Poetic peeper ORB
Police jacket acronym SWAT
Pond film SCUM
Prepare for a show REHEARSE
Quasimodo's "our" NOTRE
Resort off Venezuela ARUBA
Rochester medical center MAYOCLINIC
Rodeo competitor ROPER
Seed covering TESTA
Speed skater who won "Dancing With the Stars" OHNO
Spirited horses ARABS
Spittoon user's sound PTUI
Subleased RELET
Tees off ANGERS
Toll rd. TNPK
Try to bite, kitten-style NIPAT
Unwelcome exposure BETRAYAL
Witty sort WAG
Work on a galley TYPESET
Worked with wicker CANED
__ Diable: old penal colony site ILEDU
__ proprietor SOLE
__-mutuel PARI