L.A. Times Daily - May 16 2010

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Clues Answers
"Atlas Shrugged" author RAND
"Come again?" BEGPARDON
"Enough already!" IGIVE
"Gymnopédies" composer Satie ERIK
"I've __ thinking ..." BEEN
"La Dolce Vita" actress EKBERG
"Like that's gonna happen!" HAH
"Show Boat" author Ferber EDNA
"Space Cowboys" actor __ Dean LOREN
"Thy Neighbor's Wife" author TALESE
"Very well" SOBEIT
'20s-'30s Flying Cloud, e.g. REO
1936 Olympics champ OWENS
Acts of faith? LEAPS
Alpine mont BLANC
Armchair QB's channel ESPN
Asian menu assurance NOMSG
Baseball Hall of Famer Wilhelm HOYT
Beanstalk menace GIANT
Begin to use, as resources TAP
Bi- plus one TRI
Big butte MESA
Bobby Orr, for most of his career BRUIN
Brooding place NEST
Campaign vets POLS
Caravan stopovers OASES
Cathedral voices ALTI
Cavalry blade SABER
Chronic HABITUAL
Clears (of) RIDS
Command after "Oops!" UNDO
Conspiracy theorist's subject PLOT
Constantly EVER
Crude abode HOVEL
Cut drastically SLASH
Data transfer unit BAUD
Dig find, perhaps TOOL
Digital watch abbr. TUE
Disconnects HANGSUP
Districts ZONES
Draw forth EVOKE
Dress shop compliment ITSYOU
Duel-purpose equipment EPEES
Emulates a horse whisperer TAMES
Exhausted ALLIN
Exit poll indication TREND
Expand the staff HIRE
Eye impolitely OGLE
Farmer's helpers OXEN
Feed store? SILO
Field shield TARP
Frankenstein aide IGOR
Frontier transport STAGE
Frozen drops SLEET
Gelling agents AGARS
Greeted the judge ROSE
Group in power RULINGPARTY
Group of notes CHORD
Guesstimate word ABOUT
Gully fillers RAINS
Harvester's haul CROP
Having just seen a ghost, maybe PALE
High 80s, roughly BPLUS
Hot Springs National Park state ARKANSAS
Hundreds of wks. YRS
In __ and out ... ONEEAR
Internet gateways PORTALS
Invites the public OPENS
Is, in Ixtapa ESTA
It might have a nut at each end UBOLT
It's a racket PINGPONGPADDLE
Jumping contest entrants FROGS
Clues Answers
Just so NEAT
Justice of the peace customer ELOPER
Knot, as of hair HANK
Like urban populations DENSE
Lose heart DESPAIR
Managing COPING
Mechanical connectors, half the time MALES
Men-only affair STAG
Mezzo's moment ARIA
Mile High athlete BRONCO
Milky Way ingredient? STAR
More than a walk-on SPEAKINGPART
Most favorable OPTIMAL
Most violent GORIEST
Mover and shaker NABOB
Musical "don't play" TACET
Naproxen brand ALEVE
National League East team METS
Needing spicing BLAND
New Englander YANKEE
Northern Arizona native HOPI
Odessa's home TEXAS
One making a good impression? APER
Pantheon figures GODS
Pantheon site ROME
Part of a TV signal AUDIO
Plebe's denial NOSIR
Pottery ovens KILNS
Prefix with grain MULTI
President who appeared on "Laugh-In" NIXON
Rap genre GANGSTA
Renée's "Chicago" role ROXIE
Rope fiber SISAL
Ruckuses TODOS
S.O.S, for one SCOURINGPAD
Sans companions LONE
Scholastic mean, briefly, hidden in this puzzle's seven longest answers GPA
Scout's good work DEED
Scrabble piece TILE
Seat of Hawaii County HILO
See from afar ESPY
Silently endure difficulty, in slang SUCKITUP
Simple fellow SIMON
Slender-bodied stinger WASP
Small snack NOSH
Small victory margins NOSES
Some hangings ART
Sound right RINGTRUE
Soup scoop LADLE
Spark in a bookshop MURIEL
Speed-skating rink, e.g. OVAL
Sportscaster Gumbel GREG
Start of a new año ENERO
State of inaction HOLDINGPATTERN
Studly sorts HEMEN
Thorn in one's side PEST
Throw a feast for REGALE
Throw off EMIT
Touches the tarmac LANDS
Trevi Fountain coin count? TRE
Tribute and Miata MAZDAS
Tutelage AEGIS
Venezia's land ITALIA
What the dauntless lack FEARS
Wound remnant SCAR
You can't go when you're in it PARK
You might get it in your pajamas MORNINGPAPER
Zip NONE
Zipped HIED
[Quoted verbatim] SIC
__ de corps ESPRIT
__ du jour: bistro special PLAT