L.A. Times Magazine - Mar 8 2009

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Clues Answers
"And all my days are trances" writer POE
"Bei Mir ___ du Schon" BIST
"House" star's first name HUGH
"Less than stellar" SOSO
"Off the Court" author ASHE
"Wise men ne'er sit ___ their woes" ("Richard II") ANDWAIL
"___ of Honey" ATASTE
1996 film, "___ Andy Warhol" ISHOT
A free Google service GMAIL
A Neptune moon TRITON
Abbr. after Kerry or Kennedy's name DMA
Actor known for playing tough-talking sergeants (as in "Full Metal Jacket"), ___ Ermey RLEE
Antarctica has one COLDCLIMATE
Aqua add-on NAUT
Avoid a trial, maybe SETTLE
Ballet-company stars ETOILES
Band's place ARM
Bargain-hunters' meccas OUTLETMALLS
Bend over backward ARCH
Bit or fix intro INA
Bops, in the Bible SMITES
Brunch fave QUICHE
Bunker and Head EDITHS
Bygone Ford LTD
Caffé addition CREMA
Cake, on Atkins NONO
Capital in the Andes QUITO
Changes shape, in techtalk MORPHS
Cholesterol abbr. HDL
Clarke classic CHILDHOODSEND
Clay targets SKEETS
Climber's challenge: abbr. MTN
Closet material LINEN
Cockney swine OGS
Cold war inits. USSR
Cost of a soda, once NICKEL
Creator of a clever Belgian AGATHA
Darwin denizen AUSSIE
Deci finish BEL
DNA component ADENINE
Engine starter: Abbr. IGN
Faux pas follower, often OOPS
Financially strapped INAHOLE
Fontaine content EAU
Forced (open) PRIED
Francis and Stevens CONNIES
Freelancer's courtesy: abbr. SASE
Full-house indicator SRO
Geezers FOGIES
German "city" STADT
Gibson film, "The ___ Living Dangerously" YEAROF
Godforsaken place THEMIDDLEOFNOWHERE
Had a side or two ATE
Hanging or dimpled piece CHAD
Hazard intro BIO
Hearstnapping org. SLA
Impish girls GAMINES
Inconceivable stretch EON
Indy 500 sound ROAR
Ingrid in "Notorious," e.g. SPY
Interstellar distance: abbr. LTYR
Introduce the acts EMCEE
It's NNE of San Antone BIGD
Jump-space key TAB
Jumping pieces: abbr. KTS
Junior screechers OWLETS
Language whence "Serengeti" comes MASAI
Legendary cowboy ___ Bill PECOS
Clues Answers
Letters on a hull USS
License to fill?: abbr. DDS
Lowers, in a way DEMEANS
Lulu PIP
Maize blight SMUT
Mariners' catcher NET
Matches, as a bet SEES
Memento ___ MORI
Michael Collins's cause IRISHINDEPENDENCE
Milk container UDDER
Minn. neighbor NDAK
Mormons, initially LDS
Much-used verbe ETRE
Not like Ike: Abbr. DEM
Nuisance PAIN
Old password, "Joe ___" SENTME
Old Testament book OBADIAH
Opera's hero, often TENOR
Part of a Hawkeyes cheer ANI
Peace Prize sharer of 1994 ARAFAT
Persian Gulf fed. UAE
Petraeus, for ex. GEN
Plopping-onto-a-hotel-bed sound AHH
Prior to, in verse ERE
Promising words? OATHS
Pronunciation symbol SCHWA
Proven proposition, in math LEMMA
Really resentful(Note: The same six-letter word is hidden in each of this puzzle's seven theme answers, reading left to right but not necessarily consecutively -- for example, the word "sample" is hidden left to right in "sugar maple." What's the common six-letter word? Answer next week.) INHIGHDUDGEON
Records that are larger than 45s and smaller than albums EPS
Retro jackets NEHRUS
Roughly ORSO
Ruby and Sandra DEES
Salinger girl ESME
Seat of County Kerry TRALEE
See 45 Across LADYFROMPASADENA
See 85 Across THEGOLDENEGG
Seminal punk album of 1975 RAMONES
Showed fascination STARED
Site for a bite CAFE
Skinless, now PEELED
Snake or CPA ADDER
Sole mates? SHOES
Sort of slow ANDANTE
Start of a John Hersey title ABELL
Startled cries OHS
Stumble ERR
Suitable APT
Superior ratings AONES
Survey, as the horizon SCAN
Tennis setting TABLE
This instant ATONCE
Tither's ten: abbr. PCT
Together, as socks PAIRED
Tomorrow's opp. YEST
Took a golf cart RODE
Tough-mission selectees ATEAMS
Trail leaver SNAIL
Transfixed RAPT
Turn a corner, in Monopoly PASSGO
Unconvincing LAME
Varnish resin ELEMI
Where to see a fjord explorer: abbr. ICEL
With 51 Across, Top Ten hit of 1964 THELITTLEOLD
With 89 Across, source of bounty THEGOOSETHATLAID
Works at a museum? OILS
Wreaths and such HOLIDAYDECORATIONS
___ Domini ANNO
___ sauce TACO