L.A. Times Daily - Aug 8 2009

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Clues Answers
"Freestyle" performer, perhaps RAPPER
"We don't know yet," on skeds TBA
1994 U.S. Open champ ELS
Apollo's nymph DAPHNE
ATM card feature STRIPE
Award for "Hot L Baltimore" OBIE
Balances, e.g.: Abbr. AMTS
Beginning of a response to "Eh?" ISAID
Between, in Brest ENTRE
Bk. reviewers? CPAS
Bug-loving org. NSA
Byword ADAGE
Carnival ride? CRUISE
Cross word BAH
Engaged, in a way RAPT
Figures out GETSWISETO
Focus group? CAMERACREW
Formation with walls MESA
Gallo gadget WINEPRESS
Half an incomparable mixture APPLES
Hand wringer RUER
Hinny's mother ASS
Illicit affair AMOUR
It's cut and dried HAY
It's often blocked on beaches SUN
Kara Kum features DUNES
Kick out DEPOSE
Knucklehead DOPE
Latin-American pastry EMPANADA
Less ambiguous SURER
Like a diving catch ONEHANDED
Lilting refrain TRALA
Locale of a Stephen King residence BANGOR
Means of support EASEL
Movie nerd, e.g. STEREOTYPE
Clues Answers
Not localized WIDE
One might excite a gambler HOTTIP
One of Churchill's four offerings TOIL
One with a pad, perhaps NOTER
Osso __ BUCO
Pacers and Rangers EDSELS
Parcel unit ACRE
Reacts to being 57-Across EATSALOT
Receipt CHIT
Reminiscing word AGO
Scholarship drive donor GRAD
Seasonal hrs. EDT
Short staffer? ASST
Simple life? AMOEBA
Site of Europe's Parkpop festival, with "The" HAGUE
Some Campbell's creations PASTASOUPS
Some required reading CLASSICS
Some U.S. Open scores EAGLES
Sounds from the stumped ERS
Stand for ALLOW
Starving RAVENOUS
Symbols of thinness DIMES
Takes in DUPES
Textile factory fixture DYEVAT
They may be rough SEAS
Timber, for one NATURALRESOURCE
Title for Dickens's Defarge MADAME
Unsurprising NOTNEW
Up in the air UNSET
View from the Acropolis AGORA
Village People classic MACHOMAN
Visited overnight STAYEDAT
Washington address MISTERPRESIDENT
Where all kidding occurs? ASIDE
__ Bay, largest Oregon Coast city COOS