L.A. Times Daily - Sep 27 2009

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Clues Answers
"Ivanhoe" author SCOTT
"Just doing my best" ITRY
"Me neither!" NORI
"Oops" UHOH
"The Beverly Hillbillies" dad JED
"The __ the limit!" SKYS
"__ Ben Jonson": literary epitaph ORARE
''Rule, Britannia'' composer ARNE
17th-18th century British poet Nicholas ROWE
1939 Garland co-star LAHR
All there SANE
Amtrak purch. TKT
Anesthetize DEADEN
Bad-mouth DIS
Big-screen format IMAX
Blender brand OSTER
Blubber BAWL
Bow-wielding Southern god? DIXIECUPID
British submachine guns STENS
Bull: Pref. TAUR
Candy, cookies and soda? KIDRATIONS
Capable of being scattered DIFFUSIBLE
Cara and Castle IRENES
Cast a ballot VOTE
Cherished LOVED
Cholesterol check? LIPIDSERVICE
Cockpit datum AIRSPEED
Condition that might bring you to tears? BOREDOM
Conks out DIES
Cork people IRISH
Covetous feeling ENVY
Deceptive ploys RUSES
Decisive times DDAYS
Denial on the base NOSIR
Did a smith's work SHOED
Did garden work HOED
Disheartened SADDENED
Dissertation TREATISE
Doesn't keep up LAGS
Door opener KNOB
Duds TOGS
Dweeb NERD
Egyptian symbol of life ANKH
Ella while scatting? RAPIDSINGER
Epps of "House" OMAR
Evening party SOIREE
First name in dictators IDI
Free TV spot PSA
Get away from ELUDE
Groups of two DYADS
H.S. juniors' exams PSATS
Had a feeling about SENSED
Hard and soft mouth parts PALATES
Hindu scripture VEDA
Hockey stat ASSIST
Hummus holder PITA
Hurl epithets CUSS
Impish ELFIN
In some respects OFSORTS
Informal eatery BARANDGRILL
Insect stage PUPA
Italy's La __ SCALA
Japanese city known for its beer OTARU
Japanese immigrant ISSEI
Japanese sake, e.g.? ASIATICFLUID
Lagged behind TRAILED
Like English, to most Americans NATIVE
Like Nash's lama, in verse ONEL
Like steamy films RRATED
Live in OCCUPY
Clues Answers
Lowlife, slangily CREEPO
Lustrous fabrics SATEENS
Magnetic Field? SALLY
Marcos's successor AQUINO
Mason's job? CASE
Menlo Park middle name ALVA
Morning need for many COFFEE
Nautilus captain NEMO
Never before topped UNSURPASSED
New Jersey team NETS
New staff member HIREE
New York college whose team is the Gaels IONA
Ocean phenomenon associated with wildlife mortality REDTIDE
Oldest Little Leaguers TEENS
On Soc. Sec., perhaps RETD
Once, long ago ERST
Open hearing, in law OYER
Orch. section STR
Ostrich relative RHEA
Overdue thing ARREAR
Pants cuffs, to Brits TURNUPS
Paris possessive AMOI
Parlor piece SOFA
Pile HEAP
Pleased GLAD
Polish city where Solidarity was founded GDANSK
Possible reply to a dentist's "Where does it hurt?" ONTHECUSPID
Potter's oven KILN
Prayers are often said on them KNEES
Present opening? OMNI
President between Harry and Jack IKE
Professeur's pupil ELEVE
Publishing VIP EDITOR
Rare altar reply, fortunately IDONT
Remington product RIFLE
Renée of silent films ADOREE
Rev.'s talk SER
River of Cologne RHINE
Running score TALLY
Russian refusal NYET
Salon supply DYE
Sammy Davis Jr. autobiography YESICAN
Schoolyard retort ARESO
Should that be true IFSO
Sign of a past injury SCAR
Singer Brewer TERESA
Sketched DREW
Skin care brand OLAY
Slips past EASESBY
Slow Churned ice-cream brand EDYS
Small songbirds LARKS
Smelling __ SALTS
South Pacific vacation mecca TAHITI
Sponsor's urging ACTNOW
Stop dramatically, as smoking QUITCOLD
Table scraps ORTS
Take the honey and run ELOPE
Tellers? RATS
The United States, e.g. SUPERPOWER
Twisty hair style for active people? SPORTSBRAID
Uses as support RESTSON
Ward of "Sisters" SELA
What Depp did, over and over, to acquire the auction item he so badly wanted? JOHNNYREBID
Wolf down EAT
Wombs UTERI
Words after cop APLEA
__ bit: slightly AWEE
__ chi TAI
__ sci POLI
__ standstill ATA