L.A. Times Magazine - Dec 11 2005

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Clues Answers
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) COFFEEMUG
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) OUIJABOARD
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) READINGLIGHT
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) CHOCOLATEBAR
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) SINATRACD
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) DILBERTDOLL
"... and a ___ ..." (see 21 Across) GUMERASER
"... and a ___." (see 21 Across) DECKOFCARDS
"... to buy a ___" LAWNCHAIR
"... ___ ..." (see 21 Across) TWOTSHIRTS
"I'll pass, thanks" NOTME
"Now I'm off to the ___ ..." DRUGSTORE
"Today at the bookstore I bought a ___ ..." CROISSANT
"___ or lose it" USEIT
35 Across mecca RIO
Above, to Albrecht UBER
Acid type AMINO
Actor Steve of Fargo BUSCEMI
Actress Adams EDIE
Actress Andersson or Besch BIBI
Agriculture goddess DEMETER
Air-safety org. FAA
Airport announcement PAGE
Approval SAYSO
Ashes to Ashes author Hoag TAMI
Aspersion SLUR
At this point HERE
Back bones SACRA
Be in a cast ACT
Beam GRIN
Become yucky, perhaps ROT
Beginning drawing class ARTI
Bit of impishness ANTIC
Bluesy James and namesakes ETTAS
Bottled-spirits giant SEAGRAM
Brazilian dance SAMBA
Bucker under a buckaroo BRONC
Call for help SOS
Cell centers NUCLEI
Change again REEDIT
Checkout headache LINE
Children, to a department-store Santa LAPFULS
Chop down HEW
Comic Judy whose trademark line is "It could happen!" (anagram of ATTUNE) TENUTA
Dame of fame EDNA
Definite article THE
Deposed dictator AMIN
Diet restriction NOFATS
Douglas ___ FIR
Drew's great-aunt ETHEL
Drink ending ADE
Dunce cap-shaped CONIC
Early time SIXAM
Endure a hot spell BAKE
Fey of Saturday Night Live TINA
Field bundle BALE
Flag men REFS
Flat sign TOLET
Follow a pattern, perhaps SEW
Foot part ARCH
Fortune-teller's aid TAROT
Fox follower TROT
Get decent DRESS
Goes to SEES
Golden boy? OSCAR
Great smoky mountain? ETNA
Greek groom of 1968, informally ARI
Greek letters NUS
Group of eight OCTAD
Hard to find RARE
Clues Answers
Hilo honcho KAHUNA
Historic times ERAS
Hit the ice SKATE
Holds up LASTS
Holiday gatherers, often KIN
Hoop or drop, for example EARRING
Hubbub ADO
In ___ (stuck) ARUT
Ingredient in Wow! chips OLESTRA
Instrument in a pit OBOE
It may fold out SOFA
It shows what you're made of: abbr. ANAT
JFK served in it USN
Life, so they say JOURNEY
Like some jobs ODD
Lofty shots LOBS
Look-alike TWIN
Love ADORE
Mandela's org. ANC
Mature enough OFAGE
Miles away AFAR
Mill product? RUMOR
Movie openings ROLES
New York city UTICA
No-sales-tax state OREGON
One of a critical pair EBERT
One of Asta's feeders NORA
Overlaying with pork LARDING
Ownership claim ITSMINE
Patty Hearst, for one HEIRESS
Peek follower ABOO
Popular operating system UNIX
Pressure preceder ACU
Price place TAG
Rainier et al.: abbr. MTS
Salmon's tail? ELLA
Salt Lake players UTES
Scarecrow reward BRAIN
See the point of GET
Sex researcher Hite SHERE
Shoots the breeze GABS
Skins RINDS
Slingshot missile STONE
Slow flow TRICKLE
Snake venom, for example TOXIN
Some kind of a nut ALMOND
Sound gravelly RASP
Spigoted server URN
Start of an old school song ABCD
Sun. talk SER
Superlative finish EST
Taboo temptation NONO
Take away DETRACT
Teacher of a sort SWAMI
Tempo PACE
The Braves: Abbr. ATL
The yoke's on them OXEN
The ___ Marbles ELGIN
Tiger on a box TONY
Trees with nuts BEECHES
Type of bark ARF
Vaughan of jazz SARAH
Very, very EXTRA
Washday machines DRYERS
What so loudly we hail TAXI
Wiser, presumably OLDER
Wood strips LATHS
Word after dish or dust CLOTH
Yemeni, e.g. ARAB
___ angle (uneven) ATAN