L.A. Times Daily - May 1 2012

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Clues Answers
"Roots" hero __ Kinte KUNTA
"See ya" TATA
"We're in!" LETS
"Your Song" singer John ELTON
*Especially favorable agreement SWEETDEAL
*Highly charged, as a topic HOTBUTTON
*Nouveau riche NEWMONEY
*Sleeper sofa COUCHBED
*Steady, unobtrusive background sound WHITENOISE
Arnaz-Ball studio DESILU
Automaker with a four-ring logo AUDI
Average marks CEES
Baloney BUSHWA
Baseball cards unit PACK
Bk. before Job ESTH
Brief acting role CAMEO
Bustle of activity ADO
China's Mao __-tung TSE
Chou En-__ LAI
Cockney's "in this place" ERE
Con men CHISELERS
Contentious confrontation SETTO
D-Day craft LST
Dallas sch SMU
Daylong march ETAPE
Dental whitening agent TOOTHGEL
Directional ending ERN
Entr'__ ACTE
Familiar KNOWN
Feudal slave SERF
Fingered, as a perp IDED
Former coin of Spain PESETA
French order-carrying craft AVISO
Fur tycoon ASTOR
Gap rival JCREW
Get-up-and-go PEP
Green Hornet's sidekick KATO
Hard copies PRINTOUTS
Clues Answers
Hard tennis shot SMASH
Heat-resistant glassware PYREX
Hershey's toffee bar SKOR
Ice cream brand EDYS
Income __ TAX
Intractable beast ASS
Kids' touching game TAG
King of the ring DON
Mess up MISDO
More than a misdemeanor FELONY
Mr. who debuted 5/1/1952, or in a way, what the first word of the answers to starred clues can be POTATOHEAD
On and on and on and .. ADNAUSEAM
Only planet with exactly one moon EARTH
Out of control AMOK
Pacific island on which much of "Lost" was filmed OAHU
Pixar fish NEMO
Revealing, like the heart in a Poe title TELLTALE
Scored a hole-in-one on ACED
Screwball WACKO
Sensei's teaching JUDO
Shopping meccas MALLS
Short trips HOPS
Silly ABSURD
Slow-moving tree-hanging animal SLOTH
Soothing words SOLACE
State west of Minn SDAK
Stereotypical dog name ROVER
Strict observance of formalities PUNCTILIO
Sugar pies HONS
Swiss river AARE
Taloned bird HAWK
The Blue Jays, on scoreboards TOR
They're often cluttered in offices DESKS
Unit of reality? DOSE
Warning ALERT
Zubin with a baton MEHTA
__ Bator, Mongolia ULAN
__ Gay: WWII plane ENOLA