L.A. Times Daily - Oct 20 2009

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Clues Answers
"Cross my heart" ISWEAR
"Days of __ Lives" OUR
"Do it, or __!" ELSE
"Peter Pan" pirate SMEE
"Shrek" ogress FIONA
"__ sin to tell ..." ITSA
Acquire, as liabilities INCUR
Admits an embarrassing error EATSDIRT
Ancestors in Darwin's theory APEMEN
Apartment house manager, slangily SUPE
Became vaguely aware of SENSED
Black Sea resort ODESSA
Carbo-loader's choice PASTA
Cartoon flapper Betty BOOP
Coke or Pepsi COLA
Color gradation HUE
Color-coded Monopoly cards DEEDS
Complexion problem ACNE
Decides OPTS
Devoured every bit of ATEUP
Diet guru who wouldn't have recommended 10-Down ATKINS
Docking spot PIER
Early late-night host Jack PAAR
Earth-friendly prefix ECO
Enthusiasm GUSTO
Exceptional TOPNOTCH
Favored student PET
Few and far between SPARSE
Frequently, to a poet OFT
Geronimo's tribe APACHE
Get beaten LOSE
Get fresh with SASS
Get too personal PRY
Go with the __ FLOW
Golden Fleece ship ARGO
Henry Higgins, to Eliza TUTOR
Is bratty ACTSUP
It goes before beauty, so they say AGE
Clues Answers
It smells NOSE
Krupp works city ESSEN
Letters after pi RHOS
Looks boldly at OGLES
Many sculptures TORSI
Maui, for one ISLE
Military mascot ARMYMULE
Modeling session activity POSING
Modify to fit ADAPT
Nile bird IBIS
NYSE debuts IPOS
Obligated to repay a loan INDEBTED
Offers from a genie WISHES
One of the Musketeers ARAMIS
Open fields LEAS
Paintings by dadaist Max ERNSTS
Parking lot fillers CARS
Periphery EDGE
Pinza of "South Pacific" EZIO
Prefix with second NANO
Rash symptom ITCH
Really little TINY
Reform Party founder Perot HROSS
Reheat, nowadays ZAP
Route around the construction area DETOUR
Sailor SEAMAN
Small bill ONE
Space-saving abbr. ETAL
Spitter's sound PTUI
Split __ soup PEA
Sport __: family vehicle UTE
Strategy for reducing loan payments, briefly REFI
Suffering writer's block FRESHOUTOFIDEAS
Suffering writer's block COMINGUPEMPTY
Suffering writer's block DRAWINGABLANK
Witnesses SEES
__ v. Wade: 1973 Supreme Court decision ROE
__-Bismol PEPTO