L.A. Times Magazine - Aug 27 2006

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Clues Answers
"A likely story!" IBET
"Honestly, ___ tired" IMTOO
"What was I thinking?!" DOH
"What ___ now?" DOIDO
"What ___!" ("Wimp!") AWUSS
"Whether 'tis ___..." NOBLER
"___ then, you and I ..." (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) LETUSGO
4,840 square yards ONEACRE
A miner test? ASSAY
A Mother and others TERESAS
Actor Johnny DEPP
Actress Charlotte RAE
Actress Ward SELA
Affectionate nickname DEARIE
Ages GROWSOLD
Anti follower PASTO
Area of S.F., Pacific ___ HTS
B-ball star SHAQ
Bandleader Puente TITO
Bar between wheels AXLE
Base cops MPS
Ben & Jerry's rival EDYS
Ben, away from the Ponderosa LORNE
Big name in fake fat OLESTRA
Boy king TUT
Brit. ref. work OED
Bygone despots TSARS
Car contract LEASE
Chef known for his broccoli-and-bean dishes? EMERILLAGASSY
Clipper feature SAIL
Come down in buckets POUR
Comic-strip yip ARF
Concealed HID
Confession of a rock band who played great individually but lousy as a group? UNITEDWESTANK
Corduroy feature RIB
Cork's loc. IRE
Damascus is its cap. SYR
Danger to divers EEL
Darlin' HON
Diamond authority UMPIRE
Didn't work WASOFF
Director Soderbergh STEVEN
Does something ACTS
Don of talk radio IMUS
Done vocals SUNG
Eager player's cry MYTURN
Fancy sewing case ETUI
Fashionable CHIC
Fat guy's excuse? THEBUTTERDIDIT
French phone greeting ALLO
Gang ___ UPON
Gauchos' ropes REATAS
Global septet SEAS
Grabbed something on the way ATE
Greek deli order GYRO
Habitable hole DEN
Hemming need PIN
Hospital concerns BEDS
Hurting INPAIN
Is quick HASTENS
Island where Homer is reputedly buried IOS
Juan's "ones" UNOS
Kate's TV pal ALLIE
Kept tabs on a friend's tabby CATSAT
Key rings? ATOLLS
L.A. Confidential co-star CROWE
Lat. and long., e.g. ABBRS
Lays out SPENDS
Lead-in to lethal NON
Least loud SOFTEST
Like babes and hunks SEXY
Clues Answers
Like some nests EMPTY
Listless LANGUID
Little mischief-maker ELF
Living quarters ABODE
Malarial symptom AGUE
Merkel or O'Connor UNA
Metrics opener ISO
Moistens, as meat BASTES
Most popular show on the All Fungus Network? WIDEWORLDOFSPORES
Muckraker's first name UPTON
Neighbors of the sopranos, perhaps ALTOS
New car of 1957 EDSEL
Not-to-be-missed MUSTSEE
Office-seeker, briefly POL
Oklahoma oil center TULSA
Orbital extreme APOGEE
Org. for entrepreneurs (or backwards, tummy muscles) SBA
Outboard backup OAR
Parkers at KOA sites RVS
PBS chef of Can Cook fame YAN
Perspective ANGLE
Poodle's name FIFI
Prepares to propose KNEELS
Printing process, briefly ROTO
Prop ending ANE
Pub order ALE
Put in place, as cable LAID
Pygmalion monogram GBS
Ram's sign ARIES
Really big show EXPO
Recent USNA grad ENS
Response to being proposed to in the rain? THISISSOSODDEN
Round-ending sound BELL
Say positively AVER
See 120 Across BURLIVES
Shoebox number SIZE
Short flight HOP
Singer DiFranco ANI
Sitcom about a family of tobacco chewers? SPITCITY
Sketch from scratch REDRAW
Slacks measure INSEAM
Spam, mostly ADS
Strong as ___ ANOX
Suckers SAPS
Suffers in August, perhaps SWELTERS
Symphony, say OPUS
Take a ___ (try) STABAT
Take care of SEETO
The AL East, for ex. DIV
There's a vicuna on its flag PERU
They feature creatures ZOOS
Thinker Descartes RENE
Tray containing work to do INBOX
Turkey feature WATTLE
Turquoise relative AQUA
Twosome who were just too much? THEOVERLYBROTHERS
Type of 115 Down JIB
Type of blanket LAPROBE
Type of tomato ROMA
Wall St.'s loc. NYNY
Way out EXIT
What the extras were in The Story of Xerxes? CASTASPERSIANS
Where Mandela was pres. SAFR
Where you might see FALCO CATES HESTON CAGNEY JUMBLE
With 127 Across, bio of a noted singer-actor? THEBESTYEARSOF
Word on a map of Uzbekistan ARAL
Wrote wrong, e.g. MISDID
You can't hear if you're out of it EARSHOT
___ dixit IPSE
___ large extent TOA
___-wip REDDI