L.A. Times Daily - May 17 2009

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Clues Answers
"Don't make __ difficult!" ITSO
"Hey, you!" PSST
"If I Ran the Zoo" author SEUSS
"Little Men" author ALCOTT
"Silkwood" co-screenwriter Nora EPHRON
"Wait __!" ASEC
"Washington Merry-Go-Round" columnist PEARSON
'90s "SNL" regular Farley CHRIS
*"Science" employed in many a self-help book POPPSYCHOLOGY
*Game you have to dress for STRIPPOKER
*It's loaded with rolls CAPPISTOL
*Liability suit targets DEEPPOCKETS
*Most dreaming occurs in the last one SLEEPPHASE
*Recycled stuff SCRAPPAPER
*Thing to do first TOPPRIORITY
*West Coast Marine Corps training base CAMPPENDLETON
13½-inch-high award OSCAR
1950s-'60s "Man on the Street" comic NYE
A long time YEARS
According to ASPER
Actress Conn DIDI
Airport security concerns LAPTOPS
Ashen PASTY
Behaved ACTED
Benevolent KIND
Birch of "American Beauty" THORA
Bizarre OUTRE
Blithe CAREFREE
Blotter site DESK
Boulder summer hrs. MDT
Brief answer? RSVP
Brief reading? ZINE
Bury ENTOMB
Capital at 12,000 feet LHASA
Captain Marvel's magic word SHAZAM
Cave phenomenon ECHO
Cell centers NUCLEI
Certain polytheist PAGAN
Chalet backdrop ALP
Chef's repertoire RECIPES
Chicken Little's emotion PANIC
Church area APSE
Cleared the board ERASED
Coffee go-with DANISH
College offering DEGREE
Company whose name is quacked in ads AFLAC
Composer Satie ERIK
Cons ANTIS
Continually remind KEEPAFTER
Copy of an orig. REPR
D.C. mortgage insurer FHA
Debt evidence CHITS
Demolished RAZED
Destroy over time ERODE
Easy stride LOPE
End, as a subscription LAPSE
ER arrivals EMTS
Eyelid problem STYE
Fall mo. NOV
Fancy entrance PORTAL
Fine, for instance PUNISH
Formed just for this project ADHOC
Former African territory __-Urundi (now two countries) RUANDA
Futile VAIN
Gets cheeky with SASSES
Green party? TYRO
Guitar ridge FRET
How acrobats perform SPRYLY
How distances to ballpark fences are measured INFEET
Impudence CHUTZPAH
Insinuating SNIDE
It borders It. AUS
Clues Answers
It can be hard to refold ROADMAP
It can't be returned ACE
Kennel call ARF
Like "Macbeth" TRAGIC
Lit PIEEYED
Manhattan sch. KSU
Medicinal creams ALOES
Mentalist Geller URI
More than tear up BAWL
Musical direction, and a hint to the quiet meetings taking place in the answers to starred clues PIANISSIMO
Nerd DORK
Nitty-gritty PITH
North Dakota State's home FARGO
Not by accident ONPURPOSE
Not great SOSO
Not punctual for LATETO
Nutrient in kelp IODINE
Opposite of ja NEIN
Our Gang assent OTAY
Paradise EDEN
Part of little girls' makeup? SPICE
Pasta sauce herb BASIL
PC hookup CRT
People ONES
Perfume counter array SCENTS
Pi followers RHOS
Pigged out (on) ODED
Portly PLUMP
Possessed DEMONIC
Professor 'iggins ENRY
Publicists' concerns IMAGES
Pulitzer rival HEARST
Question of time WHEN
Reel LURCH
Ribs NEEDLES
Rods with roasts SPITS
Salty septet SEAS
Seat of Douglas County, Nebraska OMAHA
Seed cover ARIL
Seen from the crow's-nest SIGHTED
Seine sun SOLEIL
Serious HEAVY
Shakespeare title starter ALLS
Silly type GOOSE
Singer Winans CECE
Skier's wear PARKA
Slack off EASE
Slog PLOD
Spanish snacks TAPAS
Standoffish ICY
Starts liking TAKESTO
Sturgeon output ROE
Subordinate AIDE
Sunscreen nos. SPFS
Take care of a boxer? PETSIT
Tête thought IDEE
Term of affection, in Asti CARA
Tiger's bagful TEES
Tina of "30 Rock" FEY
Two-time Tony winner Rivera CHITA
Very, in scores ASSAI
When people retire BEDTIME
Word of sorrow ALAS
Work the aisles, slangily USH
WWII journalist Ernie PYLE
X, at times TEN
Yen ITCH
__ hunch ONA
__ mail SNAIL
__'acte ENTR
__-Caps: candy SNO
__-daisy UPSY