L.A. Times Daily - May 7 2009

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Clues Answers
"A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley ESSAY
"Divine Secrets of the __ Sisterhood" YAYA
"Great" czar PETERI
"Of course!" AHA
"Pronto!" ASAP
"This __ stickup" ISA
"__ on me" ITS
1598 edict city NANTES
Baby beef? VEAL
Back (out) OPT
Basic need SHELTER
Bit of beachwear SANDAL
Blessing evokers ACHOOS
Burt's costar in "The Killers" AVA
Canned heat STERNO
Choreographer with nine Tonys BOBFOSSE
Clear up SOLVE
Conductor Seiji OZAWA
Console SOOTHE
Container weight TARE
Cowboy singer Tex RITTER
Deco notable ERTE
Diplomat's forte TACT
Doctors' works THESES
Elected officials INS
Favorite PET
Features of some notebooks TABS
Finish the road PAVE
First toothbrush to go to the moon ORALB
Fly high SOAR
Fumbling reaction UHOH
Grab TAKE
Hang loosely DANGLE
Harbor vessel TUG
Horned viper ASP
Inert gas NEON
Irish author Binchy MAEVE
It has a legend MAP
Kotter portrayer Kaplan GABE
Clues Answers
Lab assistant in a 1939 film YGOR
Large container VAT
Largest known dwarf planet ERIS
Leno's successor-to-be OBRIEN
Like most acorns OVOID
Love poetry Muse ERATO
MDCLXII ÷ III DLIV
Memo opener INRE
Mixed bag OLIO
Negro Leagues great Buck ONEIL
Nutritional stds. RDAS
O'Neill's daughter OONA
One of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" OLGA
One with pressing duties? IRONER
Peter Fonda role ULEE
Pie-mode link ALA
Place to order gefilte fish KOSHERDELI
Port ENE of Cleveland, O. ERIEPA
Pressure to conform, and a hint to the hidden word found in 20-, 27- and 51-Across HERDMENTALITY
Ralph McInerny's priest/detective FATHERDOWLING
Rio or Rondo KIA
River barrier DAM
Sabra's home ISRAEL
Saunter AMBLE
Scarlett's last words ANOTHERDAY
Shaky start? ESS
Short change? CTS
Spot for a garden SIDEYARD
Sword holder SHEATH
Take from the top SKIM
That's a moray EEL
Try TEST
Unlikely protagonist NONHERO
Van __, Calif. NUYS
Visionary SEER
Whinnying African ZEBRA
Winner over Alexander in 1804 AARON
__ de vente: bill of sale ACTE
__ were ASIT