L.A. Times Daily - Aug 9 2009

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Clues Answers
"A __ technicality" MERE
"Clair de __" LUNE
"Did you __?!" EVER
"Gigi" composer LOEWE
"God Bless America" inning SEVENTH
"Oh, brother!" MAN
"The very __!" IDEA
"Yesterday!" ASAP
13 for Al, e.g. ATNO
2004 Democratic keynoter OBAMA
Actor Mineo SAL
Africa's largest nation in area SUDAN
All-natural abode IGLOO
Ancient wreath for the head ANADEM
Answered with attitude SASSED
Antelope named for the sound it makes when frightened DIKDIK
Arrange, as a deal BROKER
Author who's rarin' to write? EAGERBEAVERWHITE
Autograph site CAST
Beyond tipsy LIT
Bibliography abbr. ETAL
Big __: baseball's David Ortiz PAPI
Blender name WARING
Blue-pencils EDITS
Brewery fixture OAST
Bring in EARN
Campanella of Ebbets Field fame ROY
Capital WNW of Manila HANOI
Cellular structure HIVE
Certain B.S. holder ENGR
Cheese with veins BLEU
Chemical relative ISOMER
Chess, Japanese-style SHOGI
Christian name? DIOR
City in California's Imperial Valley ELCENTRO
Comm. method reputedly used by Koko the gorilla ASL
Comme ci, comme ça SOSO
Connecting BETWEEN
Creamsicle color ORANGE
Daredevil writer? HANGGLIDERWELLS
Dead center? TOMB
Deep-seated INBRED
DLX ÷ X LVI
Emperor after Galba OTHO
Explosive blues singer? BIGBANGKING
Fancy case ETUI
Fertile Crescent land SYRIA
Fix, in a way GELD
Florida Marlins uniform color TEAL
Fools, with "up" TRIPS
Frock wearers FRIARS
Galvanic cell part ANODE
Geppetto wished on one STAR
Gibberish, metaphorically GREEK
Give rise to SPAWN
GM debut of 1964 GTO
Go quietly TIPTOE
Grammy winner Bonnie RAITT
Grandson of Adam ENOS
Green-lighted OKD
Haile Selassie worshiper RASTA
Hard-hitting mystery writer? PILEDRIVERJAMES
Hefty competitor GLAD
Help out at the trampoline SPOT
High roller? SEMI
High-tech card interpreter READER
Hill worker AIDE
Horse of the Middle East ARAB
Houston school RICE
How some stocks are sold ATPAR
Clues Answers
Icelandic epic EDDA
Inasmuch as SINCE
Indian wet nurse AMAH
Indy additive STP
Insurance that covers bridges? DENTAL
It doesn't conceal much GSTRING
It has a Lovers card TAROT
James Dean persona REBEL
Jazzman Calloway's birth name CABELL
Jiffy Bag, e.g. MAILER
Keep out of the lineup REST
Like a stained shirt pocket, maybe INKY
Like baked apples CORED
Lizard's habitat? LOUNGE
Log item ENTRY
Luth. or Meth. PROT
Malibu landmark PIER
Merchant who moonlights as a union boss? LABORLEADERBEAN
Milton's "Lycidas," e.g. ELEGY
More stately NOBLER
Much of Chile ANDES
Nabs using trickery TRAPS
Nano or Shuffle fillers TUNES
Napoleonic Wars marshal NEY
New newts EFTS
Ocular sphincter IRIS
On the safer side ALEE
Opera heroine, often SOPRANO
Pacific finger food POI
Part of WATS AREA
Perching places LIMBS
Perjure oneself LIE
Pin on a rowboat THOLE
Place for a bagel with a schmear DELI
Poet surfing the Net? WEBBROWSERYEATS
Pressure, loan shark-style LEANON
River through Silesia ODER
RoboCop, e.g. CYBORG
Rochester's love EYRE
Sainted Norse king OLAVII
Serengeti grazer ELAND
Series opener? MINI
Seriously restrained, as a prisoner INIRONS
Sicko, for short PERV
Sine's reciprocal, in trig COSEC
Sings like Ella SCATS
Some grandkid spoilers NANAS
Suit material SERGE
Sushi ingredient ROE
Take up, perhaps HEM
They work on wheels POTTERS
Threatening, but harmless, showman? PAPERTIGERBARNUM
Thwart STYMIE
Tiger Woods's wife ELIN
Title word in an annual Guy Lombardo classic SYNE
To a degree SOME
Trident feature TINE
Try to hit with TOSSAT
Turned on the waterworks BAWLED
Twist together ENLACE
Unicellular life AMEBAE
Vermont ski resort STOWE
Walloped, old-style SMOTE
Went (all over) TRAIPSED
White House nickname IKE
Wired, so to speak JITTERY
Word before boom SIS
Yak, yak, yak ... RUNON
__ pole TOTEM
__ War: 1850s conflict CRIMEAN