L.A. Times Daily - Aug 29 2008

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Clues Answers
"Dies __" IRAE
"Divine Comedy" river STYX
"Jagged Edge" Oscar nominee Robert LOGGIA
"Little Caesar" role RICO
"Sign me up!" IMIN
"Yeah, right!" ASIF
"__ first" YOU
"__ must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES": Eliot ACAT
(The) bee's knees MOST
1930s migrants OKIES
1937 title gangster PГ©pГ© LEMOKO
A bit emotional MISTY
Aggressive campaign targeting cell phones? TEXTOFFENSIVE
Alexander II, e.g. TSAR
Ancient Greek jar AMPHORA
Appoints NAMES
Aquarium material, generically PLEXIGLASS
Beginnings BIRTHS
Behan's land ERIN
Casa chamber SALA
Cedar Rapids college COE
Checkup request SAYAH
Chewbacca was his co-pilot HANSOLO
Chick in jazz COREA
Chocolate-coated toffee bar SKOR
Clunky-looking car that really performs? BOXYWONDER
Contour map no. ELEV
Corporate heavy AXMAN
Dance syllable CHA
Discursive AIMLESS
Dogpatch adjective LIL
Dumbbell abbr. LBS
Early movie mogul LOEW
Exemplar of might OAK
First farmers to use yoked teams? OXPIONEERS
Frat letter, briefly SIG
Freshness SASS
Game named for a king FARO
Clues Answers
Horsy relative? MOOCOW
Humorist's tool IRONY
Inflate PAD
Its ancient equivalent was used to create this puzzle's theme TEN
Juvenile YOUTH
Melon-flavored liqueur MIDORI
Military uniform parts SASHES
Minding your business? NOSY
National League division EAST
Nautical pronoun SHE
Neural transmitter AXON
Night star LENO
Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" OMOO
Over ANEW
Pharaoh's cross ANKH
Policy experts WONKS
Porterhouse alternative TBONE
Prefix with politics GEO
Refrain from piracy? YOHOHO
Retailer with a "Democratic Design" philosophy IKEA
Rubber underwear? LATEXBLOOMERS
Rural way LANE
Rustic roofing THATCH
Schultz's boss, in a '60s-'70s sitcom KLINK
Scotts Miracle-Gro brand ORTHO
Seminole chief OSCEOLA
Shakespearean affirmatives AYS
Showy, in a way ARTY
Six-legged critter ANT
Smell REEK
Some witnesses ALIBIS
Star in Orion BETELGEUSE
Theories IDEAS
Van Gogh work IRISES
Where some surfers shop EBAY
Words to a backstabber ETTU
Worry about SWEAT
__ Luís, Brazil SAO