L.A. Times Daily - Aug 13 2009

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Clues Answers
"Chico and the Man" setting, briefly EASTLA
"Fantasia" frame CEL
"Four Quartets" poet TSELIOT
"It slipped!" OOPS
"La Bohème" heroine MIMI
"Omigosh!" EGAD
"Wow!" OOH
"__ She Sweet" AINT
*Aristophanes comedy THEBIRDS
*Dizziness VERTIGO
*Loony PSYCHO
*Music to an interrogator's ears ICONFESS
*Sunnybrook Farm girl REBECCA
*Very difficult task, in slang MURDER
*You may be picked up if you're under it SUSPICION
1960-'61 chess champ Mikhail TAL
Ale designation PALE
ATM __ FEE
Born 8/13/1899, he directed the answers to the starred clues ALFREDHITCHCOCK
Bunny __ HOP
Certain util. ELEC
Chinese toy PEKE
Chocolate lover, often TOT
Chocolate-making vessel VAT
Clinton's department STATE
Color TV pioneer RCA
Controversial Bruce LENNY
Educator LeShan EDA
Fem. advocacy group YWCA
Fetch GOGET
Fifth bk. of the Torah DEUT
Fingers IDS
Freelancer's encl. SAE
Full of, with "with" FRAUGHT
Gazzara or Stiller BEN
Goes back (to) REVERTS
Grassland LEA
Gut-punch reaction OOF
Clues Answers
Heat unit, briefly BTU
Hire TAKEON
Indus R. country PAK
Infant who succeeded Russia's Empress Anna in 1740 IVANVI
Interoffice memo, maybe FAX
Intervene STEPIN
Lacking social graces ILLBRED
Lateral remark ASIDE
Legally prohibit ESTOP
Like some icy weather SLEETY
Like the worst excuse FLIMSIEST
Local cartographer's creation AREAMAP
Needle bearers FIRS
North Sea feeder ELBE
Old Mideast org. UAR
Pasty Hawaiian staple POI
PC key next to the space bar ALT
Perry's creator ERLE
Political hot button TAXES
Pressing issue? CREASE
Reason for a search party ESCAPEE
Sans opposite AVEC
See 51-Down SCENE
Seesaw need TWO
Seldom seen SCARCE
Soap opera, e.g. SERIAL
Toto's two? ARFARF
Towel word HIS
Toyota __4: SUV model RAV
Turnpike features SIGNPOSTS
Uncommon sense? ESP
Unit of work ERG
Vindicate AVENGE
Vocation: Abbr. OCC
With 13-Down, something 7-Down is famous for in his films CAMEO
Words with distance ATA
X-ray vision thwarter LEAD
[error left as is] SIC