L.A. Times Daily - Aug 3 2014

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Clues Answers
"Absolutely, amigo!" SISI
"Father of the American Cartoon" NAST
"Fernando" band ABBA
"If I may butt in ..." AHEM
"Return of the Jedi" dancer OOLA
"Sesame Street" store owner HOOPER
"Shame on you!" TUT
"Symphony in Black" et al ERTES
"Take it!" response, in a jazz club SOLO
"The Aviator" Oscar nominee ALDA
"The Gondoliers" bride TESSA
"The Robots of Dawn" author ASIMOV
"You can't get out this way" NOEXIT
1921 sci-fi play RUR
Actor Morales ESAI
Actress Scacchi GRETA
Analogy words ISTO
Apollo landers, briefly LEMS
Aquarium swimmer TETRA
Artichoke servings HEARTS
Base decision maker UMP
Batting figures AVERAGES
Baylor, for one: Abbr UNIV
Be up against ABUT
Beijing Zoo attraction PANDA
Berlin School psychological theory GESTALT
Billionaire bank founder Andy BEAL
Biol. or chem SCI
Blows, perhaps LOSES
Botanical coating ARIL
Building beam IBAR
Came down ALIT
Carbon compounds ENOLS
Carson tale of well-behaved classroom clock watchers? SILENTSPRINGFEVER
Certain school team activity DEBATE
City on the Rhein KOLN
Code word DAH
Comment from one rushing in AMILATE
Complete UTTER
Condo divs RMS
Cop's quarry PERP
Cowboy's rope RIATA
Dessert cart goodie TORTE
Dickens tale of math woes? HARDTIMESTABLES
Didn't __ beat MISSA
Diplomatic rep AMB
Disco light STROBE
Drink that lost the second part of its name in 1961 PEPSI
Drives the getaway car for ABETS
Earth has one MOON
Employee IDs SSNS
Evade SKIRT
Excitable cell NEURON
Fish tank flooring GRAVEL
Foolhardy RASH
Forgoes the gimme PUTTS
Get cozy SNUGGLE
Gets GRASPS
Giga- x 1,000 TERA
Grannies NANAS
Half a fish MAHI
Hardly a doer IDLER
Having the most marbles SANEST
Hendrix hairdo AFRO
Highway breaker? CBER
Hit song of 1950 RAGMOP
Hoover and Mossyrock DAMS
Israel's Iron Lady MEIR
It's often seen in sheets GLASS
Jim Morrison's alma mater UCLA
Julia's "Notting Hill" co-star HUGH
Clues Answers
Kick BOOT
Lab greetings ARFS
Last Supper attendees APOSTLES
Late notice? OBIT
Latin trio member AMAT
Latvia's most populous city RIGA
Like Death Valley SERE
Like Dracula's visage ASHEN
Mastermind RINGLEADER
Matches at the poker table CALLS
Med sch. subject ANAT
Mended, in a way DARNED
Mickey and Minnie MICE
Most mournful SADDEST
Nods, say OKS
Noggins NOBS
Not a great chance ONEINTEN
Old Bologna bread LIRE
One with a second DUELER
Oregon coastal city ASTORIA
Orwell tale of Beanie Baby breeding? STUFFEDANIMALFARM
Overdo the buffet, say PIGOUT
PABA part AMINO
Palahniuk tale of a rowdy slumber party society? PILLOWFIGHTCLUB
Parisian's "to be" ETRE
PC processing unit MSEC
Phoenix suburb MESA
Poet Elinor WYLIE
Poker game tell, maybe TIC
Pool on a pedestal BIRDBATH
Predisposition BIAS
Pres. Mandela's land RSA
Prime meridian std GST
Races with sulkies TROTS
Rapidly shrinking ecosystem RAINFOREST
Receded EBBED
Reversals UTURNS
Rice style PILAF
Robert De __ NIRO
Samoan capital APIA
Shooting marbles AGATES
Skunk River city AMES
Source of brown fur STOAT
Spreadsheet figures DATA
St. Laurent of fashion YVES
Stop: Abbr STN
Straight man FOIL
Stud site EARLOBE
Sub-Saharan menace TSETSE
Tattoo parlor supplies INKS
Texarkana-born '90s candidate PEROT
The Devil's label? PRADA
These, in Juarez ESTAS
Timeline chapter ERA
Tiny republic formerly called Pleasant Island NAURU
Tolstoy tale of child's play? THUMBWARANDPEACE
Tom of "The Dukes of Hazzard" WOPAT
TWA competitor USAIR
Undergrad degs BSS
Updike tale of an idle cereal mascot? TRIXRABBITATREST
Upper-bod muscle DELT
Wall St. trader ARB
War movie staples HEROES
Welles of "War of the Worlds" ORSON
What a white flag may mean TRUCE
Wiimote inserts AAAS
Wind in a pit OBOE
Winter outburst? BRR
Yankee legend, familiarly DIMAG
__ double take DOESA
__ drive TEST