L.A. Times Sunday - Jul 26 2009

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Clues Answers
"Beats me," slangily IDUNNO
"Fire" gem OPAL
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" author LOOS
"Hey, it's a ___" LIVING
"In the Bedroom" actress SPACEK
"It's either them ___" ORUS
"That's quite enough!" OHSTOPIT
"To summarize ..." INSHORT
Able-bodied boast ICANDOIT
Actress O'Connor UNA
Acts like an ass? BRAYS
AFL's partner CIO
Aida's love RADAMES
Angles SLANTS
Avoid SHUN
Beach-access route? ROADTOSHORE
Bookstore section, perhaps OCCULT
Bound TIED
Boxer's foot PAW
Bric-a-___ BRAC
Business outfit? SUIT
Butter dye ANNATTO
Camille portrayer GRETA
Can't do without NEED
Card-game cry GIN
Carton contents EGGS
Caveman of the comics OOP
Challenged the Colorado RAFTED
Charlotte ___, V.I. AMALIE
Chiller of a sort ICE
Chutzpah GALL
Clear-headed SOBER
CNN's Dobbs LOU
Cold-caller's goal SALE
Condoleezza's successor HILLARY
Cross ROOD
Crying sounds SOBS
Customer-service reps for a certain condiment? MUSTARDSUPPORT
Day-to-day deterioration WEAR
Designer's first name COCO
Detaches, as a brooch UNPINS
Devalue CHEAPEN
Diana of "The Avengers" RIGG
Dreaded FEARED
Dream locations? BEDS
eBay actions BIDS
Editor's measure PICA
Emulate Durer ETCH
English church official BEADLE
Failed utterly BOMBED
Fallen giant of 2008, ___ Brothers LEHMAN
Fire evidence ASH
Folks near firths SCOTS
Forest female DOE
Franc's successor EURO
Frisky stablemate COLT
Gas or electric co. UTIL
Get a little sloppy with the stickum? PASTEONESELF
Give way COLLAPSE
Got sick suddenly TOOKILL
He leaked the Pentagon Papers ELLSBERG
He really digs rock MINER
Headline about escaped lions? PRIDELOOSE
How losses may be written INRED
In working order USABLE
Infamous prison ATTICA
It might be fragile EGO
It might have hymnals on it PEW
Juicy fruit MELON
Kin of a 401(k) IRA
Kingdoms REALMS
Clues Answers
Lemon or peach, e.g. HUE
Lodge letters BPOE
Look at VIEW
Lout, in Canada HOSER
Machine-gun sounds RATATATS
Many a MySpace user TEEN
Many mag pages ADS
Merchandise WARES
Michael Caine's title SIR
Moderator HOST
Morrison or Braxton TONI
New batch of chicks? FRESHBROOD
New Haven students ELIS
Nonwinners ALSORANS
Nora, opposite Nick MYRNA
Odd and funny ANTIC
Old-womanish (anagram of LIANE) ANILE
One from the heart? AORTA
One on the other side RIVAL
One who succeeds? HEIR
Other than: abbr. EXC
Pago Pago people SAMOANS
Painfully divided TORN
Parisian street RUE
Part of BTU UNIT
Passion ARDOR
Pokes PRODS
Pooh pal ROO
President after Wilson: inits. WGH
Proscriptions BANS
Pull (on) TUG
Put out (effort) EXERT
Q: "What were you doing at the lumber yard, Tarzan?" A: "___" GETTINGBOARD
Quiet exercises YOGA
Redundant library sign? NOTALKINGALOUD
Released LETGO
Result of an Oreck-Bissell summit? VACUUMPACT
Ruses PLOYS
Safe to swallow EDIBLE
Scandinavian city OSLO
Seductive dance TANGO
Seething ABOIL
Shelfmate of Allure ELLE
Shin kicker BRAT
Soft and smooth on top? BALDLIKEABABY
Source of game news ESPN
Sponge (off of) MOOCH
Spread's other name OLEO
Starts to wake STIRS
Story setting LOCALE
Stratford slammer GAOL
Suggestions INPUT
Temple U. athletes OWLS
The Clampetts, e.g. CLAN
They may hold gold ORES
Tim Taylor or Al Bundy, e.g. DAD
Tiny hairs CILIA
Up ___ (in trouble) ATREE
Vestal virgins? CHASTEWOMEN
Wanderlust, e.g. URGE
Wave-related TIDAL
Where Ann Landers was born IOWA
Where the teetotaler walked? PASTTHEBAR
Where to find 21 pips ONADIE
Where Van Gogh painted "Sunflowers" ARLES
Wilbur's pet MRED
Word before "worm" INCH
Working models? POSERS
Yule decoration WREATH
Zero NIL
___ tight ship RANA