L.A. Times Daily - May 17 2014

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Clues Answers
"Everybody Loves Raymond" wife DEBRA
"Home 4 the Holidays" adoption sponsor IAMS
"Take a Bow" R&B singer RIHANNA
"Tragedy is __ for the living to gain wisdom": RFK ATOOL
'80s sitcom title woman ALLIE
16-symbol system, for short HEX
1985 Malkovich movie ELENI
23-Down competitor KALKAN
A, in Austria EIN
Advised of INON
Airport pickup RENTALCAR
Alice's chronicler ARLO
Beef cut SHANK
Beginning Cub Scout BOBCAT
Big shots BOSSES
Blues or Blue Jackets NHLTEAM
BOLO clarification, perhaps ZASINZEBRA
Book inscription abbr EXLIB
Breyers __ Cookies & Cream OREO
City near Des Moines AMES
City on the Shatt al-Arab river BASRA
Club alternative BLT
Coeur d'__ ALENE
Convergence points FOCI
Dream follower SCAPE
Duel unit PACE
Egyptian signs of life ANKHS
Family nicknames NANAS
Forbidden looks PEEKS
Fully prepared RIPE
Gestation period TRIMESTER
Gets a C, say DOESOK
Heavy metal band with the album "The Final Frontier" IRONMAIDEN
Heifetz contemporary ELMAN
Inducing a nod, perhaps DULLASDISHWATER
It fell in 2001 MIR
Clues Answers
Italian nobleman CONTE
Lady of the Lake's gift EXCALIBUR
Latvian, for one BALT
Like a slim chance, oddly FAT
Making a proposal, perhaps ONONEKNEE
Mass producer BACH
Member of a bygone empire INCA
New parent's complaint INEEDANAP
Non-PC purchase IMAC
O.T. book before Daniel EZEK
Old Bethlehem sight STEELMILL
Old school ETON
Order member ELK
Outlaw DESPERADO
People KIN
Presidential nickname ABE
Realty ad abbr BSMT
San Martín was its liberator ARGENTINA
Scottish John IAN
Seat of Texas' Smith County TYLER
Show off, in a way FLEX
Sketch SKIT
Skin lotion brand KERI
Smelly prank STINKBOMB
Some iPods NANOS
Spring sound BOING
T size LGE
Term popularized by physicist John Wheeler BLACKHOLE
Test options, at times ABORC
Thinking RATIONALE
Trifle (with), as an idea FLIRT
TV musical host in four decades WELK
Unite by treaty ALLY
Web-footed animal OTTER
Where the wild things are MENAGERIE
__ Starkey, longtime drummer for The Who ZAK