L.A. Times Magazine - Mar 15 2009

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Clues Answers
"Answer me! Was it creamed or boiled?" THESPINACHINQUISITION
"Go on! Beat it!" GIT
"M" star's first name PETER
"Rocky" co-star TALIA
"Taking Heat" author Fleischer ARI
"This isn't ___!" AGAME
151 CLI
41 Across et al. UNIVS
98 Down cutter MOWER
Abel or Wiesel ELIE
About even (with) ONAPAR
Accustomed (to) USED
Acquitted ABSOLVED
Actress Sommer ELKE
Aqueduct formation ARCH
Army group UNIT
Arts degs. MFAS
Aurora's counterpart EOS
Babylonian hero who tried to reach heaven on an eagle (anagram of AETNA) ETANA
Barge ___ INON
Big name in office labels AVERY
Biol. or bot. SCI
Blooms, e.g. OPENS
Boxing partner SPARRER
Busy bistro time SOIR
Card game WAR
Casimir of the American Revolution PULASKI
Coconut Grove setting MIAMI
Confuse ADDLE
Document of 325 A.D., the ___ Creed NICENE
Dolittle and others: abbr. DRS
Downed, as vegetables EATEN
East China Sea island (anagram of A MUST) MATSU
Element element ATOM
Ending for Arab or Roman ESQUE
Enjoy Colorado SKI
Ernie and Gomer PYLES
Fished or schemed ANGLED
Flatten, as flats RAZE
Fly traps WEBS
Frame of animation CEL
Fuel endings ANES
German industrial valley RUHR
Good news for salad-bar employees? ANINCREASEINCELERY
Grass LAWN
Greek letters ZETAS
Has ___ for (adapts to naturally) AFEEL
Hawaiian island OAHU
Historic 11th century veggie hunt? THENORMANCORNQUEST
Hotel-room staples TVS
Hunger for CRAVE
Hyderabad hand-me-downs SARIS
Idle and Partridge ERICS
Impatient ANTSY
In ___ (casually) STRIDE
Indicate uh-huh NOD
Insignia EMBLEMS
Inventor's middle name ALVA
Jeer at TAUNT
Jim's raftmate HUCK
Less stuffy AIRIER
Less-than-lovely ladies HAGS
Letters on military jets USAF
Liable APT
Light-haired guys BLONDS
Like Abner LIL
Long-time Dakota Apts. resident ONO
Loser to Viacom in a battle for Paramount QVC
Make ___ of (jot down) ANOTE
Mandela's org. ANC
Clues Answers
March bloomer AZALEA
Miss the turnoff, e.g. ERR
Money spent OUTGO
Monster halls ARENAS
Movie whale ORCA
Nationality ending ESE
Nonhuman friend of the family PET
Not tricked UNFOOLED
Noted veggie critic? GENESHALLOT
Old college cheer RAH
Old head wreath ANADEM
Open wide? YAWN
Org. of allies NATO
Pallid ASHY
Parking levels TIERS
Part of a Carl Sagan veggie recipe? SCALLIONSANDSCALLIONS
Picked DREW
Pistol GUN
Poet's adverb OER
Prepares to pray KNEELS
Provo sch. BYU
Puzzle or fashion model POSER
Quakers of Colorado? ASPENS
Quarter, for one COIN
Quick-reducing plan FADDIET
Quite queasy ILL
Removes, as a twig SNAPSOFF
Resister's vote NAY
Sailor's sweetie OYL
San Francisco employer of Twain and Bierce HEARST
Sans ___ (carefree) SOUCI
Scheck's calling LAW
Set-___ (fights) TOS
Sherbet kin ICES
Short shot, often PUTT
Slob's apartment STY
Small stairs over a fence STILE
Soak (up), as gravy SOP
Some French landscape paintings COROTS
Sordid SEAMY
Spiritual spinoffs SECTS
Stake in the game ANTE
Standards CRITERIA
Staying power LEGS
Studio orig. NEG
Sugar suffix OSE
Sums it all up TOTALS
Sweetie's request KISSME
Swing of things SWIM
Tahoe game KENO
Teachers' org. NEA
The Beatles' "Let ___" ITBE
The brainy bunch MENSA
Throw a touchdown SCORE
Throws hard and fast ZINGS
Tie-score word ALL
Together ASONE
Tristram's love ISOLDE
Twangy, as a voice NASAL
U.S. racing circuit NASCAR
Veggie arts-and-crafts mixture? PEPPERMACHE
Veggie plea? GIVEPEASACHANCE
Very small, in part WEENSY
What hearts sometimes do RACE
What the veggie-loving children wanted? ALEEKOFTHEIROWN
Winner's prize CUP
Word after sand or speed TRAP
Yule drinks NOGS
Zeno's home ELEA
___ go (busy) ONTHE