L.A. Times Daily - Nov 12 2008

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Clues Answers
"Against the Wind" rocker SEGER
"Don't look at me!" NOTI
"Explain your reasoning" HOWSO
"Giant" actor MINEO
"I'll have a grande decaf triple vanilla 2% __, please" LATTE
"Just as I thought!" AHA
"Seinfeld" stumbler KRAMER
"The Audacity of Hope" author OBAMA
"Though this be madness, yet there is ___ in't": "Hamlet" METHOD
"We __ on the same page" ARENT
15-Across heeders OARS
Actor Kristofferson KRIS
Anarchy CHAOS
As yet unscheduled, briefly TBA
Baby's first pic? SONO
Battery prefix with "cell" DURA
Beastly OGRISH
Black Panthers co-founder SEALE
Bluesy Memphis street BEALE
Chases away SHOOS
Chasing no one AHEAD
City on the Ruhr ESSEN
Clinton's birthplace HOPE
Cold one BREW
Craggy peak TOR
Crew leader, for short COX
Dealing boxes SHOES
Decides not to go STAYSON
Duffer's dream ACE
Earthlink rival AOL
Elbow POKE
Elongated swimmer EEL
Epitome of hardness NAILS
Fertile Crescent waterway TIGRIS
Floor decor AREARUG
Florida's __ Beach VERO
Flour producer GRISTMILL
Friend of Fidel CHE
Clues Answers
Gloomy Pooh pal EEYORE
Grenoble's river ISERE
Inscrutable types ENIGMAS
Jetson canine ASTRO
Lebanon's __ Valley BEKAA
Like some vbs. IRREG
Liquefy MELT
Long. counterpart LAT
Lyric poem ODE
Marx with a horn HARPO
Morning layer DEW
Periods of note ERAS
Persona non grata LEPER
Pinnacle ACME
Playing a fourth NHL period, say INOT
Possesses HAS
Pub choice ALE
QB protectors RGS
Quarterback's encouragement to his backup? GOTAKEAHIKE
Quarterback's query about his starting offensive team? WHATSMYLINE
Quarterback's question to blitzing defenders? WHYTHEBIGRUSH
Quarterback's thought on third down and 10? ILLHAVETOPASS
Raccoon cousin COATI
Rat Pack leader SINATRA
Reacted to a massage AAHED
Red gas letters EXXON
Shepard in space ALAN
Singer's asset EAR
Something to doff HAT
Stan's partner OLLIE
Tariff-escalating conflicts TRADEWARS
Total RUNTO
Tranquilize SEDATE
Trial fig. ATTY
Upper limit MAX
VP from Md. STA
With great insight APTLY
[sigh] ALAS