L.A. Times Sunday - Aug 13 2006

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Clues Answers
"'Tis!" response TAINT
"--- the land of the free..." OER
"Amazin'" Big Apple team METS
"The West Wing" actor Jimmy SMITS
--- -jongg MAH
--- and excursions ALARUMS
--- in the right direction ASTEP
A hooker may make one RUG
A month in Haifa ELUL
Actor Stoltz ERIC
Alfresco OPENAIR
Amble and shamble GAITS
Art Deco designer ERTE
Aspirin or ibuprofen NSAID
ATM ID PIN
Audrey's "Charade" co-star CARY
Beauty-shelf brand NIVEA
Before Halen or Heflin VAN
Bldg. bigwig SUPER
Blunt-edged swords EPEES
Boxcars component SIX
Braggart's suffix EST
Bug juice? GAS
Bygone sham? PASTPRETENSE
Cavalry weapons LANCES
Check out jewels in advance? PRESCREENGEMS
Chills and fever cause MALARIA
Chinese carvings JADES
Clumsy clod OAF
Cluny cleric ABBE
Combination MIXTURE
Country club employee PRO
Cove RIA
Cul- --- DESAC
Cute and saucy PERT
Cute cutups IMPS
Daltrey of The Who ROGER
Deep chasm ABYSS
Deg. of extraction? DDS
Delicacy TACT
Depth charge, slangily ASHCAN
Distracted territories? PREOCCUPIEDLANDS
Emergency state REDALERT
English saddle's lack HORN
Every other hurricane HER
Fairy tale brother GRIMM
Fanciful ideas CONCEITS
Fast-running bird EMU
FDR power proj. TVA
Fearful state DREAD
FedEx rival UPS
Fell behind LAGGED
Florida NBA farm team? MIAMIPREHEAT
Friend of Frodo SAM
Game of chukkers POLO
Gave the go-ahead OKED
Get in over one's head? DIVE
Give a Glock, perhaps ARM
Give the heave-ho OUST
Graham, Washington and Stewart MARTHAS
Ham's brother SHEM
Hamelin's bane RATS
Has an influence on IMPACTS
He's near the end TACKLE
Health-promoting practices HYGIENE
High priest or priestess SHAMAN
Inflation victim? EGO
Initially ATFIRST
Intaglio material AGATE
Introduce a symphony? PREFACETHEMUSIC
Ireland, on coins EIRE
It may be related to you TALE
Clues Answers
Italian white wine SOAVE
Johns of art JASPER
Joie de vivre ELAN
Just past five o'clock, compasswise SSE
Knucklehead IDIOT
Lennon book "A --- in the Works" SPANIARD
Like seawater BRINY
Limo destination PROM
Literally "to the tooth" ALDENTE
Longtime Indonesian president SUKARNO
Look up to ADMIRE
Lord's Prayer start OUR
Louvre Pyramid designer PEI
Makes unferal TAMES
Mammoth trapper TAR
Med. school teachers DRS
Mexican city word SAN
Monastery monodies CHANTS
Mono- kin UNI
More rib-tickling FUNNIER
Near mid-millennium year DII
Near Miss.? ALA
Nth deg. ULT
Numbered hwy. RTE
Oscar-winner Kedrova LILA
Out-of-the-money finisher ALSORAN
Over AGAIN
Pager sound BEEP
Passats, e.g. VWS
Pink potable ROSE
Pinnacle ACME
Pot source HEMP
Quote to the cote COO
Repeats ITERATES
Robe fastener OBI
Run a game on SCAM
Rushers make it HASTE
Said, old style SPAKE
Sending masked motives by phone? PRETEXTMESSAGING
Sniff around PRY
Sole pattern TREAD
Son-gun link OFA
Spaced out? APART
Spanish muralist SERT
Speak up? PRAY
Spruce up PRIMP
Staggered back REELED
Star Wars in D.C. SDI
Statement to a judge PLEA
Sub stratum SALAMI
Switch positions ONS
Sylvester's "Rocky" co-star TALIA
Take as a given ASSUME
Taper? VCR
Terrarium growths MOSSES
Testily VEXEDLY
Top layer VENEER
Traffic-stopping org.? DEA
Trailer locater? PREVIEWFINDER
Triumphant Western resort? PREVAILCOLORADO
TV sleuth Jennifer or Jonathan HART
Twelve and under PRETEEN
Tyler of "LotR" LIV
Unexpected impediment SNAG
Vertical umlauts COLONS
Votes for YEAS
Washington Irving's snoozer RIP
Web opinion site BLOG
Welcome, to the fold? BAA
What CLUs sell INS
Windshield option TINT