L.A. Times Daily - Oct 31 2007

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Clues Answers
"Amazing!" OHWOW
"Animal Farm," for one NOVELLA
"By the way ..." SAY
"M*A*S*H" quaff NEHI
"Return of the Jedi" dancing girl OOLA
"The Bridge on the River __": 1957 film KWAI
"The __ the limit!" SKYS
*Astringent lotion WITCHHAZEL
*Be the buffoon CLOWNAROUND
*Blood-drinking mammal VAMPIREBAT
*Illegal audio broadcasts, collectively PIRATERADIO
*Something outstanding CATSMEOW
Apple with an electronic core IMAC
Bush's secretary of labor Elaine CHAO
Carpentry tools ADZES
Cath. prelate MSGR
Chew on a bone GNAW
Christmas display CRECHE
Confused comments EHS
Correct, as text EMEND
Corsage flowers ORCHIDS
Cut again, as a lawn REMOW
Decorates with Charmin, briefly? TPS
Deplorable sort WRETCH
Do garden work HOE
Doze, with "out" ZONK
E-mailed a dupe to CCED
Early seventh-century date DCI
Eat like a bird PECK
Espionage name MATA
Fannie __ MAE
Fliers grounded in '03, for short SSTS
Food fowl CAPON
Franklin of soul ARETHA
Gets inquisitive ASKS
Gives rise to SPAWNS
Green stuff MOOLA
Hardest to come by RAREST
Clues Answers
Hiker's burden KNAPSACK
Leo is its logo MGM
Less promising of two songs BSIDE
Like some bonds RATEDA
Make wider DILATE
Millennium opener ONEAD
More organized TIDIER
Most plentiful AMPLEST
Mother with a Nobel Prize TERESA
Not as original, as jokes STALER
One pulling in a pusher NARC
Online address ending COM
Paper orders REAMS
Part of SDS: Abbr. SOC
Philbin's co-host RIPA
Pizazz OOMPH
Quash SUBDUE
Red Sox star David "Big Papi" __ ORTIZ
Riot squad defenses SHIELDS
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame architect PEI
Sand bits GRAINS
Santa __ winds ANA
Span. ladies SRAS
Stand buy ADE
Stew morsel PEA
Stocking shades ECRUS
Stones star Jagger MICK
Stored cargo LADED
Subside, with "down" DIE
Subtle emanation AURA
Suffix with absorb ENT
The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones COSTUMES
They may be certified: Abbr. CKS
Tiny particle ATOM
Units of time? TICKS
USSR successor CIS
Where diner patrons may prefer to sit INABOOTH
Worldwide workers gp. ILO