L.A. Times Sunday - Oct 18 2009

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Clues Answers
"Because ___ so" ISAID
"Phaedra" playwright SENECA
"This is only ___" ATEST
"Wrong Way" Atlantic crosser of 1938 CORRIGAN
1980s tennis star Jose-Luis CLERC
19th century cartoonist NAST
2, for one INTEGER
70% of the earth's surface OCEANS
A ___ second DISTANT
Actor Morales ESAI
Additive advice? WATCHYOURSTP
Amigo's abode RANCHO
Antoine's "a" UNE
Attach, in a way CLAMPON
Bank offerings CDS
Banned Britney Spears song? OOPSDDTAGAIN
Before, long ago ERE
Bettor bunch POOL
Big Apple cardinal EGAN
Big wind GALE
Bit of terse verse HAIKU
Breakfast order OMELET
Buckling opening SWASH
Caesar's comeback ETTU
Certain airline's in-flight movie? THECONTINENTALDVD
Chevy muscle car CAMARO
Chilly freight car REEFER
Church payment TITHE
Comeback REPLY
Count ___ TOTEN
Dance under the palms HULA
Dawn goddess EOS
Deep ___ well ASA
Demond's co-star REDD
Discover accidentally HITUPON
Dusk, to Donne EEN
Dutch export EDAM
E-file preparer CPA
Emulate squirrels STORE
Eng. subj. LIT
ESPN datum STAT
Event for Trisha Y. CMA
Execute perfectly NAIL
Expert ACE
Fictions UNTRUTHS
Finger foods TAPAS
Flag or rank: abbr. ENS
France's old dances GALOPS
Friendly NICE
Furtive fellow SNEAK
Geometric product AREA
Gillette's ___ II TRAC
Goes down hard SLAMS
Goshawk's grabber TALON
Graphic transfer DECAL
Grosses out DISGUSTS
Group of whales POD
He played The Thing in 1951 ARNESS
Hebrew month ADAR
Henry VIII's house TUDOR
Holds (off) STAVES
In a minute SOON
Insect stages PUPAE
It's for the money ONE
It's S of Tenn. ALA
It's S of Wash. ORE
Jellystone resident YOGI
Kachina carvers HOPIS
Clues Answers
Keats effort ODE
Kiosks STANDS
Leeward island BORABORA
Like many dorms COED
Little house on the prairie HUT
London vehicle TRAM
Magi SAGES
Make ___ meet ENDS
Man of art RAY
Math branch TRIG
Meeting places? FOCI
Menelaus's realm SPARTA
Movie stock ACETATE
Mtn. road info ELEV
New arrivals ROOKIES
Night sights STARS
Old ABC series about a paramedic? HANGINWITHMISTERCPR
On something STONED
Paper patriarch OCHS
Pickett's music SOUL
Prophet SEER
Publicity ploy STUNT
Recedes EBBS
Recipient of the first Social Security check, ___ Fuller (1940) IDAMAE
Remove forcibly TEAROUT
Rich tapestry ARRAS
Ring site, nowadays NOSE
Rival of Total SPECIALK
Say your lines a la Brando MUMBLE
Sceaux student ELEVE
Serenades WOOS
Singer Sheena EASTON
Sits up for snacks BEGS
Soccer stadium sound OLE
Soft sound RUSTLE
Soliloquy start TOBE
Some heirs SONS
Songbird WARBLER
Speak harshly SNARL
Stake in the game ANTE
Swab again REMOP
Syrian city HAMA
Tall order? BEER
Tax-deferred plans IRAS
The face ___ angel OFAN
The insistent type, perh. ITAL
Things to do TASKS
Three-card hustle MONTE
Top two sellers at the Trail Mix Deli? NUTSANDBLTS
Torte topper ICER
Toxic avenger? ANTIDOTE
TV host Kelly RIPA
TV marine GOMER
Two things not to mess with in the Old West? THELONERANGERANDTNT
Uncouth RUDE
Underground network ROOTS
Very sexy HOT
Village, to a Boer STAD
Wallaby's cuz ROO
Watt was one SCOT
Way-ahead-of-its-time novel of 1766? THEVCROFWAKEFIELD
Wedding shower? RICE
Went over like a lead balloon DIED
Where to hear songs with subliminal messages? ULTERIORMTV
Wobbly walker TOT
Word on an interstate sign FOOD
Zero NONE
___ de Triomphe LARC