L.A. Times Daily - Feb 16 2012

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Clues Answers
"Check, mate" AYE
"Just like that!" PRESTO
"My sympathies" SOSORRY
"The Alienist" writer CARR
"Tulip chair" designer Saarinen EERO
"__ a problem" NOT
"__-mite!": "Good Times" catchword DYNO
*"Catch my drift?" SEE
*Bully COW
*Clan FAMILY
*Fire sign SMOKE
*Jazz devotees CATS
*Lake Erie city TOLEDO
*Plant need WATER
*Restaurant kitchen workload ORDERS
*Séance contact SPIRIT
*Severe fear TERROR
*Touch down LAND
*Vinaigrette ingredient OIL
30-Down genre HORROR
61-Across curl WISP
A sleeper hit may be on it BSIDE
Acquired by, in the big leagues TRADEDTO
Basic computer command RUN
Bee complex SWARM
Bolts down SECURES
Bush spokesman Fleischer ARI
Cartoon hero with antennae ATOMANT
Cary of "The Princess Bride" ELWES
Catchall checkbox OTHER
Chances for photos OPS
Circles around the sun CORONAE
Classic film involving a split personality PSYCHO
Clumsy hammerers' cries OWS
Common Cape Cod feature DORMER
Create MAKE
Crème de la crème ALIST
Crowning ATOP
Encourages PRODS
Clues Answers
Exhortation from a gift giver PUTITON
Expert in pop psychology? MOM
Fades to black ENDS
Fictional wolf's disguise GRANDMA
First name in bologna OSCAR
Flight board abbr ETD
Football's Parseghian ARA
Get one's teeth into CHEW
Hobby with hooks CROCHET
Hopelessly lost ATSEA
Incidentally, in IMs BTW
Invoice word REMIT
Landers lead-in DEARANN
Lovable droid ARTOO
Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers HOLYCROSS
Off-the-wall response? ECHO
One point from a service break ADOUT
One-named illustrator ERTE
Organize, in a way SORT
Palm tree starch SAGO
Part of TGIF ITS
Past curfew LATE
Pasta/rice brand word RONI
Rival FOE
Small openings PORES
Some HDTVs RCAS
Somewhat far AWAYS
Square dance complement EIGHT
Stepped heavily TROD
Summer setting in Chi-town CDT
Talking-__: tongue lashings TOS
Tee size letters SML
Thing to cook up PLOT
To a greater extent MORESO
Twelve-note scale, e.g TONEROW
USAF NCO TSGT
Went wild LETLOOSE
What some losers have to resist YENS
__ ideal world INAN