L.A. Times Daily - Oct 7 2012

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Clues Answers
"American Psycho" author ELLIS
"Be-Bop-__": Gene Vincent hit ALULA
"Exodus" author Uris LEON
"Famous" cookie creator AMOS
"Happily Divorced" star DRESCHER
"Ice cream castles in the air," in a Mitchell song CLOUDS
"Project Runway" host Klum HEIDI
"__ Grew Older": Hughes poem ASI
118-Across targets UDDERS
Aggressive type HAWK
Alice Walker title color PURPLE
At a standstill STATIC
Author Wiesel ELIE
Aweigh ATRIP
Beatles hit with a four-minute coda HEYJUDE
Belfry denizen BAT
Best of the best TIPTOP
Big name in scat ELLA
Bio lab gel AGAR
Book with Dick and Jane, say PRIMER
Boosters, often ALUMNI
Break up, as a union DISSOLVE
Busters NARCS
Cat lead-in SNO
Celestial sci ASTR
Check (out) SCOPE
Christine's phantom admirer ERIK
Cogito __ sum ERGO
Colorado-based sports org USOC
Crescent component ARC
Cry with a head slap DUH
Dairy worker MILKER
Dealt with HANDLED
Dear John? BREAKINGUPNEWS
Diminishing WANING
Drummer Buddy RICH
Extortion amount, perhaps? COVERUPCHARGE
Fabled flier ROC
Film crew locales SETS
Fishermen with pots EELERS
Five-sided plate HOME
Florida city on the Gulf Coast TAMPA
Following words ISEE
Frito-Lay chip DORITO
Futbol shout OLEOLE
Gael or Breton CELT
German philosopher Bauer BRUNO
Glad alternative SARAN
Good kind of guy to have around GOTO
Graduate's award SHEEPSKIN
Greenish blue hue TEAL
Grim guy? REAPER
Guided STEERED
H.S. dropouts may earn them GEDS
H.S. math course ALG
Half of XOXO HUGS
Hardly one's library voice YELL
Hired prankster on the set? DIRECTORSCUTUP
Household cleanser BORAX
HP competitor DELL
Inflation no CPI
It can be cruel FATE
It may be given before leaving NOTICE
James and Natalie's "Rebel Without a Cause" co-star SAL
Jewelry holder CHEST
Landscaper's purchase SOD
Late show hr ONEAM
List maker DEAN
Longtime senator Thurmond STROM
Manufactured goods OUTPUT
Massages RUBS
Clues Answers
Masters champ between Gary and Jack ARNIE
Measure that's often square FOOTAGE
Meditative position LOTUS
Mine in Rome MIO
Miniseries opener PARTI
Mordor monster ORC
Mother Teresa's birth name AGNES
Nasdaq competitor NYSE
Navajo neighbor HOPI
New Eng. state CONN
Not even slightly different IDENTICAL
Notre Dame recess APSE
Oakland-to-Vegas dir ESE
Of the flock LAIC
Olympic Stadium team through 2004 EXPOS
Once in a blue moon SELDOM
One-liner from the pulpit? UPSTANDINGJOKE
Open, in a way UNLOCK
Opulent PLUSH
Out callers UMPS
Part of USA: Abbr STS
Petty of "A League of Their Own" LORI
Pigeon shelters COTES
Place beside APPOSE
Playing marble AGATE
Popular bar game KENO
Prefix with knock ANTI
Quad bike, for one ATV
Raise Cain RANT
Raise some prices in the 19th-century literature section? MARKUPTWAIN
Raised golf course feature TEE
Rapper __ Shakur TUPAC
Rattles one's cage ANNOYS
Red choice PINOT
Response to "Was it that bad?" DONTASK
Rest stop sights SEMIS
Revolting Oscar also-rans? UPRISINGSTARS
Sailor's "Stop!" AVAST
Saucers in the air UFOS
School EDUCATE
Screen partner STAGE
Seriously impair MAIM
Shanghai ABDUCT
Small diamond TREY
So-called NOMINAL
Souped-up Pontiacs GTOS
Spiritual leaders GURUS
Star of the 1981 revue "The Lady and Her Music" HORNE
Steinbeck title starter EAST
Stocking shades ECRUS
Strengthen's opposite ERODE
Sullen look POUT
Swiss mathematician EULER
Tease TAUNT
Took a short trip HOPPED
Turn state's evidence RAT
Two-time All-Star Martinez TINO
Valentine's Day deity AMOR
View from the Transamerica Tower? BALTIMORESUNUP
Vivacity ELAN
Wells's partner FARGO
What liars lack HONESTY
Where Brigham Young settled UTAH
Winning AHEAD
Yale Bowl rooter ELI
Yemeni seaport ADEN
You won't see them in N.L. ballparks DHS
Youngsters in uniforms SCOUTS
__ gun STUN
__ sprawl URBAN
__-mo SLO