L.A. Times Daily - Jan 24 2012

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Clues Answers
"Fantastic!" SUPER
"Kick it up a notch!" chef EMERIL
"La __": Puccini opera BOHEME
"See ya!" LATER
"That's not enough!" MORE
"The Wire" airer HBO
"__ your instructions ..." ASPER
*Artsy-sounding microbrew CRAFTBEER
*Brains, informally GRAYMATTER
*Classic Greek ruse TROJANHORSE
*Many "South Park" jokes TOILETHUMOR
*Officially restricted yet widely known information OPENSECRET
*When night owls thrive, or where the last words of the starred answers can go AFTERDARK
Ban on trade EMBARGO
Basic chalet style AFRAME
Believability, to homeys CRED
Brit. record label EMI
Bugged, as a bug bite ITCHED
Carell of "The Office" STEVE
Cookie used in milkshakes OREO
Corp. cash mgrs CFOS
Crumpled into a ball WADDED
Cut in stone ETCH
Dadaist Jean ARP
Depression era pres FDR
Derided JEEREDAT
Discipline with kicks KARATE
Down Under gem OPAL
DVR button REC
Event with floats PARADE
Finales ENDS
Floored with a haymaker DECKED
Gave the go-ahead OKED
Gut-punch response OOF
High-pitched winds OBOES
High-__ monitor RES
Hillside house asset VIEW
Honeybunch DEAR
Clues Answers
Humiliate ABASE
It's held underwater BREATH
Itsy-__ BITSY
Joan of Arc's crime HERESY
Justice Antonin SCALIA
Like pulp magazine details LURID
Lobster color RED
McEntire sitcom REBA
Mix MELD
Muslim pilgrim HAJJI
Newspaper big shot EDITOR
Not bright at all DUMB
Opposite of 'neath OER
Orangutan or chimp APE
Overseas trader EXPORTER
Pitcher Martinez PEDRO
Play to __: draw ATIE
Prefix with sphere HEMI
Reason for a skull-and-crossbones warning TOXIN
Renaissance painter Veronese PAOLO
River blocker DAM
Rubberneckers STARERS
Sci-fi computer HAL
Security request, briefly IDCARD
See 18-Down TOED
Sonnet feature RHYME
Sound from Simba ROAR
Spoke (up) PIPED
Sponsor at some NHRA events STP
Spot for a facial SPA
Taxpayer IDs SSNS
Tex-Mex snack TACO
Trees used for shingles CEDARS
Unhappy times LOWS
With 6-Down, kind of sloth TWO
__ earlier time ATAN
__ facto IPSO
__ salts EPSOM