L.A. Times Daily - Aug 9 2012

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Clues Answers
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" backdrop ALPS
"Guitar Town" singer Steve EARLE
"I hate the Moor" speaker IAGO
"Not so quick, Silver!" WHOA
"Ol' Man River" composer KERN
"The Hot Zone" subject EBOLA
"Who Wants to Be Me?" co-author, familiarly REGIS
"__ the nerve!" OFALL
'60s golfer "Champagne" Tony LEMA
*5 __ WHEATPENNIES
*6 __ MERCURYDIMES
*7 __ BUFFALONICKELS
1814-'15 exile site ELBA
About 1.2% of Uranus's orbital period, on Earth YEAR
Affaire de coeur AMOUR
Animal of 16-Across LLAMA
Animated chipmunk ALVIN
Attention-getting sound ALARM
Author Fitzgerald married to F. Scott ZELDA
Avis lead-in RARA
Baylor Bears' home WACO
Bingo relative BEANO
Bishop's representative VICAR
Casino known for its fountains BELLAGIO
Classic roadster REO
Cooked longer, perhaps CRISPIER
Country miss GAL
Court do-over LET
Curmudgeon CRANK
Cyclotron bit ION
Dextrous beginning AMBI
Dig up EXHUME
Dip before dinner, maybe SALSA
East End abodes OMES
Fabled grasshopper, for one IDLER
False god BAAL
Gas acronym ESSO
Gene's "Brigadoon" partner CYD
Clues Answers
Gertrude Stein confidante TOKLAS
Get a move on? RELOCATE
Impersonate APE
Jane Austen opus EMMA
John on the links DALY
Knight and others TEDS
Letters for Dick and Jane ABCS
Like much lore ORAL
Like some chances SLIM
Little shaver TAD
Low bender KNEE
Matador's foe TORO
Miss Piggy's poodle FOOFOO
Nerve cell projection AXON
On top of UPON
One fine mess SNAFU
Ones crying foul REFS
Pitch tents ENCAMP
Place for shuckers RAWBAR
Place to find a 62-Across PERU
Pot builder BET
Puritan PRIG
Recess near an altar APSE
Saltimbocca meat VEAL
Sicilian spewer ETNA
Sneaker feature ARCH
Soft fly BLOOP
Spartan spirits OUZO
Sutherland solo ARIA
Tequila source AGAVE
Tidy __ SUM
Tolkien creatures ENTS
Victory emblem LAUREL
Volleyball star Gabrielle REECE
What a tyrant wields IRONHAND
What the starred clues and their no-longer-minted answers come to CHANGEFORABUCK
Word of woe ALAS
Wrinkly fruits UGLIS