L.A. Times Daily - Feb 22 2009

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Clues Answers
"Gross!" UGH
"Much appreciated!" THANKSALOT
"Respect for Acting" author Hagen UTA
"The Empire Strikes Back" director Kershner IRVIN
"The Jungle Book" python KAA
"__ Swimming": Malachy McCourt memoir AMONK
*1980 film RAGINGBULL
*1982 film SOPHIESCHOICE
*1987 film MOONSTRUCK
*1992 film SCENTOFAWOMAN
*1993 film PHILADELPHIA
*1994 film BLUESKY
*1995 film LEAVINGLASVEGAS
*2003 film MONSTER
A good one might get you accepted: Abbr. GPA
A third of neun DREI
Aachen article EIN
Abounds TEEMS
Airballs miss them RIMS
Alamogordo's county OTERO
Alpine air YODEL
At full throttle AMAIN
Atahualpa subject INCAN
Award won by lead actors in this puzzle's starred films: the winners' names are hidden "word search"-style in the grid (across, down or diagonally, and forward or backward) OSCAR
Bar order that may evoke "You've had enough" ANOTHERONE
Bare peak TOR
Berne's river AAR
Bi- equivalent TWI
Big Apple sch. NYU
Blood component SERUM
Buzz DRONE
Candor HONESTY
Captain's post HELM
Catchall surname DOE
CCXIV halved CVII
Charge FEE
Clinton __ ERA
Costello et al. LOUS
Deal with lots of debt: Abbr. LBO
Detect, as a rat? SMELL
Devourer: Suf. PHAGE
Discharges EMITS
Do goo GEL
Earned a citation? SPED
Earth tone OCHER
Excitement ADO
Fan disapproval BOOING
Finger-on-lips sound SHH
Fish for squid TRAWL
Fold, spindle or mutilate MAR
For company ALONG
Game with colorful cards UNO
Gear tooth COG
Glamorous Gardner AVA
Gleamed SHONE
Had, biblically BEGAT
High in an annoying way SHRILL
Ill-fated DOOMED
Inflation stat. CPI
Inspect EYE
It's often changed at garages OIL
Journalist Sawyer DIANE
Jump vertically with all four feet off the ground, as a gazelle PRONK
Justice since 2006 ALITO
Libertine ROUE
Like mob behavior RIOTOUS
Like much lore ORAL
Lobster feature ANTENNA
London broil cut FLANK
Lumber mill action SAWING
Many a reggae musician RASTA
Med. care group HMO
Clues Answers
Mich. neighbor ONT
Michener novel HAWAII
Mideast chief SHEIK
Mrs. McKinley IDA
NBC drama that won 26 Emmys, with "The" WESTWING
Nettle family shrub RAMIE
New York neighbor YONKERS
No belly laugh TEHEE
Not as green RIPER
Notable 1969 bride ONO
NYSE listings COS
One in an ancient Jewish sect PHARISEE
Paella flavoring SAFFRON
Perfect IDEAL
Pierre's pal AMI
Poli __ SCI
Ponder MUSE
Pontiac muscle car TRANSAM
Pooch from Wales CORGI
Porterhouse orders RARES
Principle TENET
Prohibitionists DRYS
Proposal preceder KNEEL
Quickly form a union? ELOPE
Racket NOISE
Rainer who played O-Lan in "The Good Earth" LUISE
Reason for an R GORE
Remus title BRER
Rival of Leonardo MICHELANGELO
Rive Gauche sights CAFES
Roscoe who played the sidekick in Eddie Dean Westerns ATES
Rough write-ups DRAFTS
Royal nickname FERGIE
Rubble DEBRIS
Ruling period REIGN
Scarlett's mother ELLEN
Schnozz ending OLA
Sears subsidiary KMART
Shinto temple gateway TORII
Shipping deduction TARE
Shoo-fly __ PIE
Skier's bane ICE
Sky attachment? CAM
Slave away TOIL
Solo from Lucas? HAN
Some votes YEAS
Somersaults FLIPS
Staple dispenser GUN
Subbed (for) SATIN
Subject of many sightings ELVIS
Suit material SERGE
Suit to __ ATEE
Summers of old? ABACI
Super Bowl XLII champs GIANTS
Surrounded by AMONG
Took charge LED
Toshiba competitor SANYO
Turkish peak ARARAT
Velveeta maker KRAFT
Verandas LANAIS
Waterloo Boy et al. DEERES
Wavelike pattern MOIRE
Wells race ELOI
Western burger franchise __ Jr. CARLS
Westernmost point of Forrest Gump's long run SANTAMONICAPIER
What you will LEGACY
What's the point THEME
Xerox predecessor MIMEO
Yale supporter ELI
Zagreb's land, to the IOC CRO
__ Initiative: research project on "Lost" DHARMA
__-Mart WAL