L.A. Times Daily - Sep 23 2012

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Clues Answers
"CBS News Sunday Morning" host CHARLESOSGOOD
"Him __": beau's ultimatum ORME
"How the Camel Got His Hump" et al JUSTSOSTORIES
"Moon River" composer MANCINI
"That makes sense" IGETIT
"There there" ITSALLRIGHT
"West Side Story" number AMERICA
1973 #1 hit for the Stones ANGIE
A smaller number FEWER
Abandons the band GOESITALONE
Address bk. datum TEL
Ahead of, in verse ERE
Año starter ENERO
Area in the North Atlantic SARGASSOSEA
Attaches, in a way, with "on" SEWS
Available for work ONHIRE
Back from a trip, say INTOWN
Bad mark STIGMA
Bag mate of a cleek and a niblick MASHIE
Band booster AMP
Barber's challenge MOP
Become gradually more desirable to GROWON
Bias SLANT
Big name in gloves ISOTONER
Bit of derring-do GEST
Bygone U.S. fuel stop ESSOSTATION
Cabal activities PLOTS
Cape Town's home: Abbr RSA
Classic Chevy IMPALA
Coastal flooding cause TSUNAMI
Comet competitor AJAX
Court answer PLEA
Cousin of a clog SABOT
Cuts short ABORTS
Dancer enslaved by Jabba the Hutt OOLA
Dark genre NOIR
Didn't quite win PLACED
Do road work TAR
Dramatist Chekhov ANTON
Earthquake prefix SEISMO
Essential acid AMINO
Exam many examinees won't look at BLOODTEST
Excessively TOO
Fair-hiring inits EOE
Falls CASCADE
Fishing gear RODS
Fit to be fried EDIBLE
Fivesome PENTAD
Fowl poles ROOSTS
Frustrating series of calls PHONETAG
Ft. Worth campus TCU
Garage job LUBE
Get in one's sights AIMAT
Gives more than the once-over OGLES
Graf __ SPEE
Grenoble girlfriend AMIE
Hagen of Broadway UTA
Help found inside eight puzzle answers SOS
Hidden entrance TRAPDOOR
His, to Henri SES
Hockey great Phil, familiarly ESPO
Infielder traded by the Yankees to get Alex Rodriguez ALFONSOSORIANO
Iowa and Indiana are in it BIGTEN
It may be used in a pinch SALT
Japanese food staple MISOSOUP
Jets' former gp AFL
John Irving's "__ of the Circus" ASON
John of "Good Times" AMOS
Journalist Peter ARNETT
Karate kin JUDO
Clues Answers
Lean cuisine lover SPRAT
Least resonant TINNIEST
Leaves in STETS
Lenient sort SOFTIE
Lift near a lodge TBAR
Like ALA
Like a baseball home team UPLAST
Literary lord JIM
Long time follower? NOSEE
Lord Kitchener of Trinidad et al CALYPSOSINGERS
Lucy Lawless role XENA
Manhattan suffix ITE
Marshmallowy treat MOONPIE
Mideast native SEMITE
Modern address URL
More sound SANER
Most avant-garde EDGIEST
N.L. Central team STL
Nab, in oaters LASSO
Nasty SNIDE
NCAA member?: Abbr ASSN
Not quite par ONEOVER
Obi-Wan portrayer EWAN
One of the Perons EVA
One-named supermodel EMME
Originate STEM
Over ATOP
Part of a Maui welcome LEI
Patience-virtue link ISA
Plain font choice ARIAL
Pound sound YIP
Pretty SCENIC
Problem's end? ATIC
Purim's month ADAR
Put up with STOOD
Puzzle ENIGMA
Raises BOOSTS
Ran into MET
Ratio words ISTO
Ridges in ranges ARETES
Select TAP
Shade of green EMERALD
Short missions? OPS
Size above med LGE
Slaughter on the field ENOS
Slogan MOTTO
Smashed LIT
Snorkeling site LAGOON
Soft "Hey, you!" PSST
Something for a rainy day NESTEGG
Spanish muralist SERT
Spoken VOICED
Stage remark ASIDE
Start to burn IGNITE
Stock mkt. opening? IPO
Strand MAROON
Strengthens DEEPENS
Suspicious of ONTO
The way things stand ASITIS
Theater district RIALTO
Torah starter GENESIS
Upper-bod muscle PEC
Vous, familiarly TOI
Walk unsteadily TOTTER
Was of use AVAILED
When many trades are made OFFSEASON
Where Hope sprang eternal? USOSHOWS
You can skip the flat ones STONES
__ Haute TERRE
__ of vantage: favorable position COIGN