L.A. Times Daily - Jun 15 2011

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Clues Answers
"Beetle Bailey" dog OTTO
"Garfield" dog ODIE
"I __ you are": "Ready?" answer AMIF
"Let it stand" STET
"The Bell Jar" author PLATH
"The dog ate my homework," e.g. FIB
'90s collegian, probably XER
*Aid for loose-leaf filing HOLEPUNCHER
*Deli container PICKLEJAR
*Improvisational gig JAMSESSION
*Pay for a verdict FIXTHEJURY
*Random sample SPOTCHECK
À la mode CHIC
Actor Matthau WALTER
American realist who painted "The Gross Clinic" (1875) EAKINS
An amoeba has one CELL
Apartment dweller, often LESSEE
Auntie's mate UNC
Biblical mount ASS
Brazil's capital until 1960 RIO
Bridge call PASS
Certain two-seater TANDEM
Charon's river STYX
Chemistry subject ISOTOPE
Commits piracy, in a way HIJACKS
Consumer EATER
Dance involving a chair, perhaps HORA
Done, in Dordogne FINI
Eagle's home AERIE
Egg producer HEN
Fencing blade EPEE
Former Fiesta Bowl site TEMPE
Former Press Secretary Fleischer ARI
Frozen sodas ICEES
Geese flight formation VEE
Go by ELAPSE
Goal OBJECT
He's got the life RILEY
Clues Answers
Highlands family CLAN
Highlands miss LASS
Hosp. area ICU
Hosp. areas ORS
Israeli writer Oz AMOS
Issues EMITS
Like variable work time FLEX
Missile housing SILO
Moat purpose DEFENSE
Mormon prophet, or the Utah city named for him LEHI
Opener INTRO
Part of a pilot's announcement, briefly ETA
Patella's place KNEE
Piece of work JOB
Popular Japanese beer KIRIN
Psychic power ESP
Quite OHSO
Refuse TRASH
Road turn BEND
Roof spinner VANE
Sailor CREWMAN
Sancho Panza's mount BURRO
Serengeti grazer ELAND
Soup and a sandwich, sometimes LUNCH
Spanish article LOS
Sprout incisors TEETHE
Summer suit material LINEN
Trouble at the starts of the answers to starred clues PREDICAMENT
TV room DEN
Uncle Remus title BRER
Unrefined CRUDE
Utmost degree NTH
Wade Boggs's base THIRD
Was overly sweet CLOYED
Word-for-word LITERAL
Writer Wiesel ELIE
__ Pepe: sherry brand TIO
__ the crack of dawn UPAT