L.A. Times Daily - Aug 11 2011

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Clues Answers
"The King of Kings" (1927) director DEMILLE
"The Legend of Zelda: __ of Time": video game OCARINA
"__ Bleed": Stones album LETIT
1947 South Seas traveler KONTIKI
24-Across's state: Abbr. KANS
A fish named Dory helped find him NEMO
Alehouse TAVERN
Alphabet soup bit LETTER
Bar drunk's comeuppance HEAVEHO
Base runner? AWOL
Bi- cubed OCTO
Bike part PEDAL
Boo-boo FLUB
Bouquet greenery FERN
California's __ Valley SIMI
Call heard at night HOOT
Carol opener TIS
Central Asia's __ Mountains ALTAI
Chuck steak, for example? UPPERCUT
Cling cause STATIC
Come next ENSUE
Crew member OAR
De __: excessive TROP
Deep-six TOSS
Don Juan's love AMOR
European cheese with a Protected Designation of Origin STILTON
Febreze target ODOR
Flavor-absorbing food TOFU
Generous words ONME
Having a hard time deciding TORN
Head of Québec TETE
Heart line AORTA
Hidalgo houses CASAS
High regard ESTEEM
Hobbit on a quest FRODO
Holliday friend EARP
Hung up on, with "over" GAGA
In and of itself PERSE
Clues Answers
It's in your jeans DENIM
IV part INTRA
Like a noble gas INERT
Like biased writing? ITALIC
Like some earrings CLIPON
Matchstick-removing game NIM
McGregor of "Emma" (1996) EWAN
Mullah's text KORAN
Navy ship letters USS
New driver, typically TEEN
No trouble at all EASE
One of the guys MALE
One playing the field, e.g. ATHLETE
Pay to play ANTE
Recover from a knockout COMETO
Roman trio TRE
Roughly ORSO
Shed MOLT
Shirk responsibility DOGIT
Somme one UNE
Soul great Redding OTIS
Starts fishing CASTS
Tackle box item for liberals? LEFTHOOK
Temerity GALL
Thai language LAO
Throws off EMITS
Turns blue, perhaps TINTS
Twins in the sky GEMINI
Two-time '80s-'90s Senate majority leader DOLE
Upstage a co-star, perhaps EMOTE
Velvet Elvis, e.g. KITSCH
Very angry, informally? RIGHTCROSS
What 17-, 26- and 44-Across are, figuratively and literally PUNCHLINES
Winter Palace woman TSARINA
Within: pref. ENDO
Words after step or sleep ONIT
Words on a "greatest hits" album BESTOF
Wrongdoing SIN