L.A. Times Magazine - Jun 25 2006

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Clues Answers
"Bad" cholesterol, briefly LDL
"Beat it!" SCAT
"Eight Days ___" AWEEK
"Hazel" star Don once worked as a broadcaster in a clearing of trees. DEFORESTATION
"It's ___ to you now" ALLUP
"To ___ human" ERRIS
"What did I ___ deserve this?" DOTO
"___ lied" SOI
"___ of Honey" ATASTE
A man like Bob is a curse, in a manner of speaking. MALEDICTION
A scary woman and a writer met at Lee's cheese party. GORGONZOLA
Actress Kidman NICOLE
Actress Thompson SADA
Advisor Scowcroft BRENT
Air-propelled pellets BBS
An Ionian island CORFU
Author Hoag TAMI
Back REAR
Barely get (by) EKE
Basketball stats ASSISTS
Belt contents TOOLS
Black INKY
Bothers persistently NAGS
Budgetary excess FAT
Christmas, to merchants BUSYTIME
Coax CAJOLE
Comfy car SEDAN
Counter offer? SALE
Cut DELETED
Dallas player, briefly MAV
Dangerous refuse, briefly AWASTE
Deface MAR
Deplorably bad WOEFUL
Divvy up PRORATE
Dressing contents HERBS
Elvis's long-time label RCA
End to proto ZOA
Evil spirit DEMON
Face-down PRONE
Fairway transport CART
Fall preceder? PRAT
False flattery SMARM
Fictional horse BEAUTY
Free-throw score ONE
Gaucho's rope REATA
Get from A ___ TOB
Go for ___ (run) AJOG
Gondolier's place CANAL
Got up STOOD
Grabbed again RETAKEN
Hardness scale creator MOHS
Harm's way PERIL
Harmony, briefly SYNC
Hasten HIE
Have havarti, e.g. EAT
He's a real pig BOAR
Hefty vessels VATS
I, for one, like Jack's assertion--let's stick together. PRONOUNCEMENT
If I recover, I'll re-enlist at Roscoe's place. REUPHOLSTER
Impassive STOIC
It may light the way LANTERN
It means "right" ORTHO
It sells SEX
Joseph Lauder's wife ESTEE
Kong's love ANN
Lady flyers' org., once WAF
Less distant NEARER
Like marsh grass REEDY
Llama location ANDES
Look of disdain SNEER
Mama of pop CASS
Clues Answers
Mandolin kin LUTE
Many miles away AFAR
Mideast VIPs EMIRS
Mine finds ORES
Mirror views IMAGES
Moranis and Candy's old "network" SCTV
Mound stat ERA
Move furtively SNEAK
Music sources STEREOS
Neap, for one TIDE
New Haven student ELI
No longer together DIVORCED
No-frills carrier: abbr. SWA
Noggin BEAN
Noted "positive thinker" PEALE
Oft-abbreviated band ELO
One up? BATTER
Only men like Al can land in foulness and like it. (Note: Each theme answer is a word that can divide into two smaller words--like DOZEN, DO, and ZEN--and all three words are defined in a "clue sentence." Your job in each sentence is to separate the three real clues from the extraneous words.) STAGNATION
Pal of Pooh PIGLET
Passable NOTGREAT
Pet-food brand IAMS
Pierce studied the huge disaster's origin. EPICENTER
Pirate-tale auth. RLS
Pizza unit SLICE
Plot the future. Think green. Recycle. CHARTREUSE
Poem section CANTO
Post-O.R. stop ICU
Pouchlike parts SACS
Raw deal of a sort BADRAP
Ray's "position" on eating a sandwich--just stuff it in. SUBSTANCE
Reggae relative SKA
Relief AID
Reproductive cells OVA
Ring out RESOUND
Ring outcome, briefly TKO
Rod's film crew arrived with the noodle soup. CAMERAMEN
Round tops DOMES
Roy Rogers's real name SLYE
RR regulator, once ICC
Rumpled, as a bed UNMADE
Salad ingredient EGG
San ___ Fault ANDREAS
Seriously dating ANITEM
Set up: abbr. EST
Sid's paint choice showed capricious thinking. TEMPERAMENTAL
Site of a big event ARENA
Slow Flo left her dress down at the restaurant. DELIBERATE
Smoothie ingredient ICE
Soccer legend PELE
Some carolers ALTOS
Some scenic trips TOURS
Soybean's other name EDAMAME
Spectrum color VIOLET
Start to pick NIT
Suzuki's Grand ___ VITARA
Swimsuit material TRICOT
Tab finds a decrease in the red swelling on his neck. BILLOWING
Takes the wheel STEERS
Tandy's hubby CRONYN
Term units, usu. YRS
Thar-blows insert SHE
The Fighting ___ ILLINI
Too quickly INHASTE
Trimmed PARED
Turn sharply VEER
Type of basketball pass NOLOOK
Unattractive ones OGRES
Van Gogh work IRISES
Washday brand CLOROX
Whale, for one CETACEAN
___ me tangere (hands-off notice) NOLI