L.A. Times Daily - Oct 23 2011

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Clues Answers
"Alas!" SOSAD
"Help!" film director Richard LESTER
"Still Falls the __": Edith Sitwell poem RAIN
"Take __ from me ..." ATIP
"The Sound of Music" family name TRAPP
"We have met the enemy and he __": Pogo ISUS
"You betcha!" YES
"You're in for __!" ATREAT
"__ b?" AOR
"__ my love a cherry ..." IGAVE
1994 World Cup host USA
49ers' org NFL
Alike, to Alain EGAL
Always, in verse EER
Aromatic compound ESTER
Avant-__ GARDE
Baby carrier? STORK
Be half-asleep DROWSE
Be inclined LEAN
Befitting offspring FILIAL
Began energetically WADEDIN
Bench warmer RESERVE
Big brass TUBA
Blackthorn fruit SLOE
Blue gem, briefly LAPIS
Boston's TD Garden, e.g ARENA
Boston-to-Nantucket dir SSE
Boxer's greeting WAG
Breathing: Abbr RESP
Carts without fixed sides DRAYS
Cash in REDEEM
Catch sight of ESPY
Celtic, for one CAGER
Certain NCOs SGTS
Challenging winds OBOES
Chaucerian estate manager REEVE
Christian path to salvation? GRACETRACK
Civil War cannon, e.g RELIC
Coin first minted under Louis IX ECU
Comic strip drooler ODIE
Community character ETHOS
Completely absorbed (in) STEEPED
Critic's pick NIT
Cruel partner UNUSUAL
Cutlass maker OLDS
Data INFO
Dickens's Darnay CHARLES
Dolphin's home MIAMI
Double-minded TORN
Eagle's org BSA
Exploits USES
Filter out SCREEN
Finger lever TRIGGER
Food that's French for "flash of lightning" ECLAIR
Former Colorado governor ROMER
Forty-niner after a lucky strike? GOLDYELLER
Genuine, for real: Abbr SYN
Gilded metalware TOLE
Hag CRONE
Hyperion, for one TITAN
Iced, as cake GLACE
Indeed TRULY
Ineptly prepared mess hall offering? GRUBTHEWRONGWAY
Inert gas NEON
Inquisitor __ de Torquemada TOMAS
Iroquois tribe ONEIDA
Is called GOESBY
Is in need of LACKS
Is inclined TENDS
It might be a whole lot ACRE
Clues Answers
Italian seaport TRIESTE
Johnson of "Laugh-In" ARTE
Kept talking, and talking .. RANON
Like a baseball player who couldn't find his way to the field? GLOVEDANDLOST
Like a jack-o'-lantern's eyes AGLARE
Like an arrow in the air ARCING
Like many beaches SANDY
Lively Baroque dances GIGUES
Loosen, in a way UNTIE
Mailing ctr GPO
Main courses ENTREES
Man at the altar yet again? GROOMFORONEMORE
Many an Indian HINDU
Mardi Gras event PARADE
Marshy ground MORASS
Mound on the slopes MOGUL
Mountain pass GAP
Offer one's services for a fee HIREOUT
One of the Karamazovs IVAN
Oscar de la __ RENTA
Paint droplet SPECK
Parties for royalty, say FETES
Payroll service giant, initially ADP
Place for a complainer? GRUMBLESEAT
Porridge, essentially OATS
Potentially comforted by a bottle of Beefeater? GINCONSOLABLE
Quality CHOICE
Rep.'s opponent DEM
Rescued orphan in Byron's "Don Juan" LEILA
Riot figures LOOTERS
Rouen remainder RESTE
Run to Reno, maybe ELOPE
San Antonio landmark ALAMO
Scrape ABRADE
Seem less important PALE
Show stoppers ADS
Sirius, for one ASTAR
Sleep lab letters REM
Snaky fish EEL
Some electron tubes DIODES
Some microwaves GES
South American plain LLANO
Spanish Surrealist DALI
Spell opening ABRA
Spine-tingling EERIE
Spread here and there STREW
Stagehand splitting his sides? GRIPROARING
State under oath DEPOSE
Stretch with no hits SLUMP
Striking hammer parts PEENS
Surface statistic AREA
T-shirt size LGE
Take a turn for the worse RELAPSE
Taxpayer's crime EVASION
Tears apart RENDS
Texas city near Dyess Air Force Base ABILENE
The Urals divide it EURASIA
Three abroad TRE
Time of merriment FIESTA
Too OVERLY
Treat with carbon dioxide AERATE
Triangular house sections GABLES
Twisty-horned antelope ELAND
Upward thrust BOOST
Vintage autos REOS
Web-footed mammals OTTERS
Woolly, in a way OVINE
Word with land or sea SCAPE
Worry-free SERENE
__ kwon do TAE