L.A. Times Daily - Aug 5 2008

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Clues Answers
"A stitch in time" starts one ADAGE
"Works for me!" COOL
1987 Costner film, and a hint to this puzzle's theme NOWAYOUT
Antarctic vehicle SNOCAT
Antler part PRONG
Athos, to Porthos AMI
Bad way to be caught INALIE
Baseball's Musial STAN
Ben & Jerry's purchase PINT
Bikini part BRA
Birthright seller ESAU
Bond's first movie foe DRNO
Brightly colored fish OPAH
California winemaking county SONOMA
City known for pricey beef KOBE
Classic Jags XKES
College bigwig, slangily PREXY
Composer Sibelius JEAN
Consecrate using oil ANOINT
Continental currency EURO
Coolers in windows, briefly ACS
Cosa __ NOSTRA
Doing a garden job HOEING
Donna Reed costar Carl BETZ
Element in pewter TIN
Equally beneficial ASGOOD
Essay's focus THEME
Facts, briefly INFO
Fannie __ MAE
Gain control of a commodity CORNERTHEMARKET
Govt. benefits issuer SSA
Half of an old radio duo AMOS
Hardly teetotalers SOTS
Height: Pref. ACRO
Holmes of "First Daughter" KATIE
Hot spot OVEN
Indian princess RANEE
It was about nothing, in a 17th-century play ADO
Jimmy's successor RON
Clues Answers
Land on the Baltic: Abbr. GER
Leave out OMIT
Like a sentry ONGUARD
Like half of all integers ODD
Lon's "Of Mice and Men" role LENNIE
NBA big man CENTER
Oklahoma city TULSA
Parts of pedestals DADOES
Poker Flat creator HARTE
Prim partner PROPER
Provide (for oneself) FEND
Put back together REBUILT
Put in one's two cents OPINE
RSVP bad news REGRETS
Salmon egg deposits SPAWNS
SAT section MATH
Sch. near Harvard MIT
Secret exit, maybe TRAPDOOR
Seemingly forever EON
Send out EMIT
Shrewsbury stink ODOUR
Slate or Salon EZINE
Spicy cuisine CAJUN
Stereotypical suburban scene TREELINEDSTREET
Stupefied state DAZE
Stylish CHIC
Title captive in an 1871 opera AIDA
Tokyo shopping district GINZA
Top-of-the-line AONE
Traffic jam sound HORN
Transubstantiation, say, in Catholicism TENET
Turn in a different direction VEER
TV drama length, often HOUR
Vaulted church recess APSE
Verbal flourish TADA
Violin virtuoso Leopold AUER
Wedding dance HORA
Weight of a rock? CARAT
__ buco OSSO