L.A. Times Sunday - Jan 8 2006

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Clues Answers
"--- far, far better thing..." ITISA
"--- hell" WARIS
"--- Rhythm" IGOT
"...poem lovely as ---" ATREE
"Howdy" doer GREETER
"I Remember Mama" son NELS
"Juno and the Paycock" playwright OCASEY
"The Third Man" writer Graham GREENE
"Wagons- ---" (sleeping cars) LITS
"Wow!" OHBOY
Abutting ADJACENT
Adjective for '08 LEAP
Allow ENABLE
Anti-prohibitionist WET
Arouses TURNSON
Athenian H ETA
Axle application GREASE
Batik kin TIEDYE
Batman adversary JOKER
Be quietly furious SEETHE
Bedazzle AWE
Beyond aloof ICY
Bible bk. LEV
Big name in shoe polish KIWI
Blood imbalance ANEMIA
Book of hexagrams ICHING
Boris and Natasha's boss MRBIG
Bridal bio word NEE
Bring forth ELICIT
Buffoonery ANTICS
Calyx components SEPALS
Card or Met NLER
Certain reprieve STAYOFEXECUTION
Chopin's Concerto --- Minor INE
Cons do it TIME
D.C. has lettered ones STS
Disloyal UNTRUE
Dome or turf lead-in ASTRO
Double positive? YESYES
Dr. of rap DRE
Drag venues RACEWAYS
Dumbo's jumbos EARS
Early Rolling Stones hit TUMBLINGDICE
Earn a blessing? SNEEZE
Egg containers NESTS
Elephant variety AFRICAN
English cathedral city EXETER
Escargot SNAIL
Far from flustered SERENE
Father-daughter boxers ALIS
Firmament VAULTOFHEAVEN
Flabbergast AMAZE
Flower child? SEED
Freshwater perch WALLEYEDPIKE
From KA to ME ENE
G&S's "The --- of the Guard" YEOMEN
Geode material AGATE
Go out with --- ABANG
Got hands-on experience? PETTED
Grand --- range TETON
Graybeard ELDER
Hair units STRANDS
Hallmark TRAIT
Have a bug AIL
Have an inkling SENSE
Hershey rival NESTLE
Home to the O'Haras TARA
Housed, as Hondas GARAGED
Hungry-bear filler ASA
Immoderate imbiber SOT
In-your-face BLATANT
Inside dope SKINNY
Clues Answers
Intimidate DAUNT
It can't take much at War THREE
It comes from the hearth ASH
It may be used to track shots TAB
It often ends in -zoic ERA
It shares a key with ! ONE
It's just over a foot ANKLE
Kind of renewal URBAN
LAPD staffer DET
Leo's lodge LAIR
Make out FARE
Meet a raise SEE
Melodic TUNEFUL
Mice, to owls PREY
Moonves of CBS LES
More drumlike, proverbially TIGHTER
Negri of old Hollywood POLA
Neil Diamond's "--- Said" IAMI
No-frills airfields LANDINGSTRIPS
Number of coins in the "fontana" TRE
Oakland neighbor ORINDA
Offspring PROGENY
Out-to-launch group NASA
Outback runner EMU
Pebbles' mom WILMA
Place holder? ATLAS
Plan details SPECS
Plural -y IES
Poetry type LYRIC
Powder base TALC
Pricing word PER
Priest in 1 Samuel ELI
Pumps the gas? REVSUP
Quill pen parts NIBS
Read a story and kiss good-night TUCKINTOBED
Ready to streak NUDE
Rocket interceptor, briefly ABM
Roman Pluto DIS
Rotunda ceiling DOME
Royal fur ERMINE
Say "ugh" GRUNT
Send off EMIT
Short coming? ARR
Slant LEAN
Soprano Benzell MIMI
Spherical edible PEA
State Dept. fig. AMB
Stuck with the same old same old INARUT
Sun ray BEAMOFLIGHT
Swabbie's swabber MOP
Tennis great Gibson ALTHEA
Thanksgiving dessert PIE
The first person in old Rome? EGO
The Force was with him LUKE
The in-crowd ELITE
The stuff that reams are made of SHEETS
To the point APT
Totally habitual STRICTLYROUTINE
Tough and stringy SINEWY
Trim fat, perhaps EDIT
Tubular-cut pasta PENNE
Type ILK
UK carbine STEN
Ultimate FINAL
Vb. form INF
Veteran character actor Arnold STANG
Water vessels EWERS
Way of the East TAO
What gossips dish DIRT
Where the BMT runs NYC
Wiggle room LEEWAY
William Rose or Stephen Vincent BENET