L.A. Times Daily - Apr 4 2010

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Clues Answers
"... comin' __ baked a cake": old song lyric IDVE
"Big Love" airer HBO
"Charlotte's Web" monogram EBW
"D'oh" moment, slangily BRAINCRAMP
"Fear Street" series author STINE
"Now the fun starts!" OHBOY
"Oink oink" jokes? PIGGYBACKRIDDLES
"Politically Incorrect" host MAHER
"Strange to see __ good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody": Pepys HOWA
100 Iranian dinars RIAL
1964 Tony Randall title role DRLAO
1970s-'80s bowling great __ Anthony EARL
1974 Gould/Sutherland spoof SPYS
1990 Kuwait invader IRAQ
2003 NBA Rookie of the Year Stoudemire AMARE
24-part epic ILIAD
Academic figure EDUCATOR
Afrikaner BOER
Angels shortstop Aybar ERICK
Antique auto REO
Apply amateurishly DAUB
Arranged to pay later RANATAB
Atlas blowup INSET
Barn babies OWLETS
Basic counters ABACI
Batters' nos. AVGS
Be wild about ADORE
Beatnik? COP
Biblical birthright seller ESAU
Bikini event NTEST
Bird of myth ROC
Boonies possessive HISN
Buc or Phil NLER
Caesar's 455 CDLV
Caught congers EELED
Chagall and Anthony MARCS
Closed SHUT
Cold war gp. SSRS
Complete UTTER
Con man's strategy with a lonely widow? PEARLSBEFORESWINDLE
Count (on) DEPEND
Criticizes RAPS
DeGeneres's "Idol" predecessor ABDUL
Delta preceder GAMMA
Do followers REMI
Donald, to his nephews UNCA
Eccentric LOOPY
Epps of "House" OMAR
Equestrian nobleman? MARQUISDESADDLE
Equipped with machinery TOOLED
Eschew cooking at home ORDEROUT
Fair feature RIDE
Fanatical RABID
Fashionable Manhattan eatery ELAINES
Flamenco clicker CASTANET
Fork sites: Abbr. RDS
From Jan. 1 to now YTD
Ft. Worth campus TCU
Get-out-of-jail money BAIL
Glitterati CELEBS
Graph that influences bond buyers YIELDCURVE
Graphic design school feature PCLAB
Great service providers ACERS
Gunk CRUD
Heal, in a way KNIT
Historic Spanish port ADRA
Clues Answers
Horse's headgear left out in the sun? BAKEDBRIDLE
Hospital sections WARDS
House-to-house number NOEL
In an affectedly shy way DEMURELY
Jerk ASS
Justice Brandeis LOUIS
Lanky crustaceans? SPINDLYLOBSTERS
Last Supper cup GRAIL
Like a sunny room DAYLIT
Looks the wrong way? LEERS
Matterhorn, e.g. ALP
Meatloaf's "__ Anything for Love" IDDO
Men's ideals DREAMGIRLS
Muumuu accessory LEI
Nobel-winning Holocaust chronicler ELIEWIESEL
OAS part: Abbr. ORG
Old Russian council SOVIET
Olive shade DRAB
One interested in spreads BOOKIE
Optimistic ROSY
Petruchio's wife KATE
Player of the field hockey-like sport shinty GAEL
Prefix with Aryan INDO
Prized ESTEEMED
Prong TINE
Psychedelic desk item LAVALAMP
Quaker St. PENNA
Queen of mystery ELLERY
Radiation units REMS
Row OAR
Salinger title teenager ESME
Seed coverings ARILS
Sells shorts? HANDLESUNDERWEAR
Shakes setting ROOF
Sidelined by injury, in baseball lingo, and a hint to how this puzzle's theme puns are formed PUTONTHEDL
Singer DiFranco ANI
Site of many jewel cases CDTOWER
Skating event PAIRS
Skin care prefix DERMA
Smart-alecky PERT
Smidgens TADS
Spanish pronoun ELLO
Spoiled meat? CURDLEDHAM
Sprays from cans AEROSOLS
Start of a tots' song ABCD
Suckling spot TEAT
Supermodel Carangi GIA
Sweet scent source? CANDLESUGAR
Tach readings RPMS
The Bee Gees, e.g. TRIO
The ones right in front of us THESE
Thin strip SLAT
Transfer REASSIGN
Trouble STATIC
TV show with recurring "Killer Bees" sketches SNL
Una __: using the soft pedal CORDA
USN brass RADM
Volkswagen sedan PASSAT
W.C. Fields persona SOUSE
Wane ABATE
Window alternative AISLE
Without warmth ICILY
Wrestling duo TAGTEAM
WWII vessel LST
__ Haute TERRE
__ space OUTER