L.A. Times Daily - Mar 8 2009

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"I'm on it!" CANDO
"Let the Sunshine In" musical HAIR
"Rent-__": 1988 film ACOP
"The Yankee Years" co-author TORRE
Actress Maryam DABO
Adriatic or Aegean SEA
Air freshener brand GLADE
As a companion ALONG
Beard beginning STUBBLE
Beard, e.g. GROWTH
Bell ringer's dream? PERFECTCHIME
Benjamin CSPOT
Big-time connection? HYPHEN
Bills passed illegally FUNNYMONEY
Budding business? FTD
Bug carrying passengers? BEETLE
Busy ATIT
Butcher's finest? CREAMOFTHECHOP
Carnegie, by birth SCOT
Casual London photo session? CHAPSHOOTING
Catalog stuff: Abbr. MDSE
Cattails, e.g. REEDS
Cereal fruit RAISIN
Christian surname? DIOR
City near Anaheim BREA
Clutch tightly GRASP
Code name MORSE
Composer __ Ilyich Tchaikovsky PIOTR
Controversial hanger CHAD
Copter spinners ROTORS
Cosmetic surgery, briefly LIPO
Cunard asset CRUISESHIP
Cupid AMOR
Cut down SAWN
Dealt with reality FACEDFACTS
Delay, with "off" PUT
Detroit's __ Arena COBO
Distressed cries OYS
Dominion until 1806: Abbr. HRE
Edges RIMS
Eliel Saarinen's son EERO
Environmentalist's discomfort? GREENACHES
Erle's lawyer PERRY
Ernesto, familiarly CHE
Essen article DER
Excuse ALIBI
Feb. quartet, usually WKS
Fido fascination ODOR
Floor duster DRYMOP
Foot part HEEL
Foundation plant BUSH
French star ETOILE
Game on a floating board? WATERCHESS
Game with wings HOCKEY
Get ready to go out DRESS
Google info URLS
Government by women GYNARCHY
Graceland's st. TENN
Gray ASHY
Greek X's CHIS
Grisly LURID
Gulf of Thailand peninsula MALAYA
Handle financially AFFORD
Handy bag TOTE
He lowered the New York Times' price from 3â to 1â OCHS
Hick BUMPKIN
Hindu principle of life ATMAN
Hotel offering SAFE
ISP option MSN
It's a wrap STOLE
Italia capital ROMA
JFK's vessel PTBOAT
Clues Answers
Latin 101 verb ESSE
LAX approx. ETA
Learned ERUDITE
Legal org. ABA
Like a June day, to Lowell SORARE
Listening to music, perhaps ONHOLD
Long drink of water SWIG
Mad BOILING
Madrid museum ELPRADO
Manhattan Project scientist Harold UREY
March family chronicler ALCOTT
Mattel card game UNO
Merriment GLEE
More despicable BASER
Mustachioed Simpsons neighbor NED
Night sch. staple ESL
Oil holder? FRAME
Old Mideast gp. UAR
One might give you a rude awakening ROOSTER
One with will power? HEIR
Pack in a hold STOW
Passé publishing technique PASTEUP
Pianist at Rick's SAM
PIN place LAPEL
Places to see splits ALLEYS
Poker payment ANTE
Portable platform SKID
Practiced, as a trade PLIED
Precisely TOATEE
Prime meridian std. GST
Prize in a case TROPHY
Proper to a fault PRISSY
Protest in a jam HONK
Rapper once married to Spears, familiarly KFED
Raw bar choice OYSTER
Re followers MIS
Recess coolers ADES
Recipe amts. TSPS
Removed, as a dictator DEPOSED
Ring decisions TKOS
Russian fighter MIG
Shipping inquiry TRACER
Shrinking Asian sea ARAL
Silky-coated hunting hound AFGHAN
Sister of Linus LUCY
Skunk River city AMES
Slip, for example MISHAP
Slyly involve DRAWIN
Snake eyes pair ONES
Soccer icon Mia HAMM
Speaker ORATOR
Sport for 300-pounders SUMO
Steep-descent method RAPPEL
Storm dir. NNE
Suffix with strepto- COCCI
System of raised dots BRAILLE
Take badly? STEAL
Take for granted ASSUME
Terrier of film ASTA
Test for jrs. PSAT
Texas's Pres. George Bush, e.g. TPKE
The Governator's budget philosophy? MACHOECONOMICS
The U.S. has won it only twice since 1993 RYDERCUP
Tobacco plug CHAW
Topped off the cake ICED
Uncertain TENUOUS
Understandable LUCID
Use a cred. card CHG
Used marked cards against Godzilla? CHEATEDAMONSTER
Valued collections TREASURIES
Vintage auto REO
Wedding party member USHER