L.A. Times Magazine - Dec 20 2009

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Clues Answers
"A pox on thee!" FIE
"All sales final" policy NOREFUNDS
"Cross Creek" author Marjorie ___ Rawlings KINNAN
"Dollar diplomacy" president TAFT
"So ___" DOI
"Take this" HERE
"You weigh ___!" ATON
"___ admit ..." IMUST
"___ and immaculate in very thought" (Shak.) CHASTE
1996 gangster film starring Christopher Walken THEFUNERAL
85 Down, in Hermosillo AQUI
A ___ silence VOWOF
Actor Cesar ROMERO
Afternoon breaks NAPS
Alan and Cheryl LADDS
Andy on "Taxi" LATKA
Arm bones ULNAE
Aunt on "Bewitched" CLARA
Author Hubbard LRON
Beach Boys hit FUNFUNFUN
Beach-movie fave FUNICELLO
Bear, to Caesar URSUS
Big bay east of Maine FUNDY
Big name in security BRINKS
Blow a mean horn WAIL
Bother ANNOY
Bright aquarium fish NEONS
Bullet-buying grp. NRA
Bygone avian DODO
Calls and raises BETS
Carnival treat FUNNELCAKE
Castaway creations RAFTS
Chancy choices RISKS
Charmer's basketful SNAKES
Chicago paper, briefly TRIB
Code-cracking org. NSA
Collector's item CURIO
Connery's title SIR
Converging points FOCI
Crackpot NUT
Crime scene find PRINT
Deity of desire EROS
Deputized bunch POSSE
Disapproving sound TSK
Disorderly stack HEAP
Dove sound COO
E.T. on TV ALF
Early "Law & Order" D.A., Adam ___ (played by Steven Hill) SCHIFF
Embarrass ABASH
Flaky mineral MICA
Flight suit letters USAF
Flying monitor: abbr. FAA
Follow follower UPS
From who-knows-where OFUNKNOWNORIGIN
Gathered dust SAT
Gen. Robert ___ ELEE
Goofs off LOAFS
Have a cross ___ TOBEAR
He's Harvey in "Milk" SEAN
Hosp. areas ORS
Hosp. areas ICUS
Icon of samurai cinema TOSHIROMIFUNE
Includes, as a tip ADDSIN
Inventor's middle name ALVA
It's poured in pints ALE
Key of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1: abbr. CMAJ
Lap dog, informally PEKE
Law or medicine, e.g. CAREER
Legend creator ACURA
Like George or Kramer on "Seinfeld" DYSFUNCTIONAL
Like some grins SLY
Little bit TAD
Local self-government HOMERULE
Clues Answers
Madison or Monroe: Abbr. JAS
Mail courtesy, briefly SASE
Man, in Italian UOMO
Maximally ATMOST
Missing, but not in action AWOL
Monk's title FRA
Mother-daughter hand-me-downs? GENES
Muddled mess SNAFU
Norway's patron saint OLAV
Not as many FEWER
Park Avenue pooch ASTA
Parque zoológico denizen OSO
Party hearty REVEL
Pathfinding puzzle MAZE
Payable DUE
Pellet gun ammo BBS
Perfect-season coach SHULA
Pest on a pet FLEA
Pilot's datum: abbr. ALT
Pine goo TAR
Plant life FLORA
Plex prefix MULTI
Pod veggie OKRA
Political coalition BLOC
Pontius Pilate, e.g. ROMAN
Positive feature ASSET
Puny piglet RUNT
Put a jinx on HEX
Railway of suspended cable cars FUNICULAR
Reality show pioneer, perhaps ALLENFUNT
Reference duo FUNKANDWAGNALLS
Rock extractions ORES
Ruhr rejection NEIN
Ruined one's meal? SNACKED
S-shaped molding OGEE
Sail material, often DACRON
Savings option IRA
Secures anew RELOCKS
Send out a new 1040 REFILE
Serta rival SEALY
Shopping center PLAZA
Site of many Chicago touchdowns? OHARE
Sodium hydroxide, in lab shorthand NAOH
Songwriter Jacques BREL
Spy device, briefly CAM
Squabbles TIFFS
Stages, as a Civil War battle REENACTS
Steinbeck title word EAST
Stews FRETS
Striped official REF
Super Bowl XLI champs COLTS
The dog in "The Family Circle" BARFY
Tightrope walker FUNAMBULIST
Tollbooth approach LANE
Trade show, e.g. EXPO
Tree growth SHELFFUNGUS
Tree ornament, often ORB
Troubleshooter's word AHA
TV dweeb URKEL
Type of bat used in baseball practice FUNGO
Uncle who wants you SAM
Vicuna's environs ANDES
What's missing from Vegas? LAS
Word with pro or star ALL
XXXI tripled, plus X CIII
Year-end visitor SANTA
You might get it when you're out CPR
Young ___ UNS
___ consequence OFNO
___ festive mood INA
___ opportunity EQUAL
___ the crack of dawn UPAT
___ this earth NOTOF