L.A. Times Magazine - Feb 22 2009

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Clues Answers
"Black power" coiner's first name STOKELY
"Do the ___" MATH
"Golly!" GOSH
"May ___?" IGONOW
"Swell!" NEATO
"The ___ Love" MANI
"Wheel of Fortune" buy, perhaps ANI
"___ so early in the morn" RISEUP
1970s embargo result NOGAS
24 Down, e.g. OATH
Actress Berger SENTA
Actress Mary ASTOR
Addis ___ ABABA
African despot, once IDI
Aid for peeper-washing EYECUP
An Academy Award, plus its definition? (or actually, Steve Austin's boss on "The Six Million Dollar Man") OSCARGOLDMAN
Ann Miller forte TAP
Antlered animal STAG
Artist Rivera DIEGO
Audubon, for one: abbr. SOC
Barbecue et al. SAUCES
Bear down (on), as a target HOMEIN
Beatles hit, "Ticket ___" TORIDE
Before now EARLIER
Bible bk. ISA
Big rig SEMI
Brains, for example ASSET
Burning result ASH
Cambodia's Lon ___ NOL
Car flaws DENTS
Category that Clint Eastwood wants added? BESTWESTERN
China's "way" TAO
Chit sheet IOU
Chocolate source CACAO
Coffee variety ARABICA
Comment after the TelePrompTer broke? WHATSMYLINE
Corrida sound OLE
Corsair's vessel XEBEC
Crunchy lunch TACO
Danson et al. TEDS
Deceive LIETO
Do great EXCEL
Enter friskily HOPIN
Ex-Dodger pitcher Hershiser OREL
Expenditures OUTGO
Facto lead-in IPSO
Final Four org. NCAA
Fjord city OSLO
Flight booking, once USAIR
Flubs MUFFS
Formerly ONCE
Frank's "On the Town" co-star GENE
From that place THENCE
Fugitive ESCAPEE
Generally ASARULE
Gives birth to HAS
Golfer's selection IRON
Greek-born keyboardist YANNI
Henry VIII's second ANNE
Hilarious show RIOT
Hollywood Wood NATALIE
Hugh's "Sense and Sensibility" co-star EMMA
Indonesian island TIMOR
Inspiration IDEA
Interlock MESH
Inventor Howe ELIAS
Ireland, in songs ERIN
It could be anybody SOMEONE
It might be dire NEED
Jaunty SMART
Joe Pesci's only Oscars complaint? DENOMINATIONS
Khan men? HORDE
Clues Answers
Killer whale ORCA
Lang. course ESL
Last letter, in London ZED
Latin I word AMO
Legal LICIT
Like a boxer before boxing ROBED
Lively AGILE
Longevity goal OLDAGE
Make ___ (strike it rich) AMINT
Manhattan Project VIP FERMI
Martini & ___ vermouth ROSSI
Middle wrap SASH
Mole, perhaps SPY
More theatrical STAGIER
Mother of Charles: abbr. ELIZ
Mt. McKinley's state park DENALI
Mullah's teaching ISLAM
Multiplexes CINEMAS
Needle meas. CCS
No alternative YES
Not many AFEW
Obsolete PASSE
Office info MEMOS
Oscar-winning Donna REED
Parker's instrument SAX
Part of a Texas city, familiarly ANTONE
Penpoint NIB
Photog's job at the Oscars? SHOOTINGSTARS
Police action RAID
Power co. UTIL
Pro ___ TEM
Producer's evasive response as to why the show always runs long? (see 97 Across) SONGANDDANCE
Projected, as a film RAN
Recite letters SPELL
Scoop support CONE
Scoreless tie OTOO
See 75 Across ESTA
Sharp sides EDGES
Show place? THIRD
Sign of August LEO
Singer Nelson EDDY
Slattern TROLLOP
Sloth's home TREE
Some terminals ANODES
Spanish article LAS
Speechless MUTE
Stain BLOTCH
Stain BESMEAR
Stared at OGLED
Term preceder MID
Tie fabric SILK
Tokyo, before EDO
Turn, as a mast SLUE
Understood GOT
Veni ICAME
Vex RILE
Visual aid for those in the auditorium's back row? HALLMONITORS
W Coast daily LATIMES
Wager placer BETTOR
What may have to be cut to shorten the show? WHOLENUMBERS
What some dresses give some celebs? GOODEXPOSURE
Whiz ACE
Winners in the animated and live-action categories? PAIROFSHORTS
With 86 Down, a Spanish greeting COMO
Without ___ (insouciant) ACARE
Work unit ERG
Wrath IRE
Zero NONE
Zero money up front, in ads NODOWN
___ alcohol BUTYL
___ Aviv TEL
___ be tied FITTO