L.A. Times Magazine - Jul 9 2006

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Clues Answers
"... bombs bursting ___" INAIR
"Bummer!" TOOBAD
"Just ___ suspected ..." ASI
"There ___ there there" (Gertrude Stein) ISNO
"Time ___ ..." WAS
"You've convinced me" IMSOLD
"___ as a seal upon thine heart" (Solomon 8:6) SETME
"___ just do that" IMAY
Absorb the cost of EAT
Approval power SAYSO
Aspect of Cabaret's cabaret scenes KINKINESS
Auction unit ITEM
Audubon, for ex. SOC
Author Grey ZANE
Bach's Mass ___ Minor INB
Barton Fink star John TURTURRO
Beat in a pie contest OUTATE
Beer from Japan KIRIN
Bergen boob SNERD
Biblical patriarch ISAAC
Biblical possessive THY
Big Apple store SAKS
Bit of French on a menu ALA
Bond villain DRNO
Bowed instrument VIOL
Breaks (a habit) KICKS
Burden ONUS
Bygone bird MOA
Capra's John DOE
Carson's Carnac, e.g. SWAMI
Cautionary novelist (this one's a four-peater) GEORGEORWELL
Chief concern? TRIBE
Chucklehead SAP
City in SE Turkey URFA
City on the Rhone LYON
Clip-___ ONS
Combat zones ARENAS
Commitment to the game ANTE
Concert gear AMPS
Convenience-store conveniences ATMS
Corrida cries OLES
Count (on) RELY
Deg. for a canine expert? DDS
Discipline with chops KARATE
Do in, as Caesar ASSASSINATE
Each PERPERSON
Easter entrees HAMS
Electrolysis particles ANIONS
Elitist's rejection SNUB
Entered illegally BROKEIN
Eskimo knife ULU
Famously NOTABLY
Farsighted investment IRA
Fast-moving film genre ACTION
Feather ___ BOA
Field marshal Rommel ERWIN
French 101 verb AVOIR
Galleon cargo, ca. 1500 ORO
Get impatient with, as a curtain cord YANKON
Glob addition ULE
Govt. agent TMAN
Grants grp. NEA
Grenoble's river ISERE
Grimm beginning? ONCE
Hamster haven PETSHOP
Hard to see TINY
Held responsible BLAMED
High flier KITE
Hindu aphorisms SUTRA
International accord (NOTE: This is the first "three-peater" in this puzzle. There are 14 more -- plus one "bonus-peater" near the end.) ENTENTE
It's a pealing TINTINNABULATION
It's a sign LEO
It's only fair? SOSO
Jerry Springer was mayor of it CINCINNATI
Clues Answers
Kathmandu coin RUPEE
Kenny Baker's bleeping character ARTOO
Kid in old shorts ALFALFA
L.A. clock setting PST
Leak sound SSSS
Leave the band, perhaps GOSOLO
Lee of cake fame SARA
Life symbol ANKH
Life-lesson tale-teller AESOP
Little rascals IMPS
Mark of Zorro? SCAR
Marshy area FEN
Martini's vermouth partner ROSSI
Michael's Mrs. Mom co-star TERI
Midge in Vertigo BARBARABELGEDDES
Miss Gulch creator BAUM
Mount from which Moses saw Canaan NEBO
Muscle might BRAWN
Musical based on ABBA songs MAMMAMIA
Musical ligature SLUR
Name heard in "Come Together" ONO
Ninotchka name GRETA
Notre Dame legend ROCKNE
Of dandruff FURFURACEOUS
Of songbirds (anagram of CONIES) OSCINE
Old airline TWA
One-million dividers? INA
Online queries, briefly FAQS
Org. for Annapolis grads USN
Oscar Wilde, e.g. WIT
Out of control AMOK
Part of a U.S. motto UNUM
Part of QED ERAT
Payment made via computer: abbr. EFT
Pearly linings in mollusks NACRES
Phobia opener ACRO
Plays and such THETHEATER
Pool circuit LAP
Pre-Constitution letters USS
Pro ___ RATA
Product books CATALOGS
Rats SQUEALS
Reunion bunch KIN
Sailor's direction ALEE
Scattered STREWN
Shaq's alma mater LSU
Sheba creator William INGE
Sierra Club co-founder MUIR
Some are OTC MEDS
Some sculptures TORSOS
Sonneteer's unit IAMB
Sporty Pontiac GTO
Stage storage space PROPROOM
Stocking stuffer TOY
Stomach-growling sound BORBORYGMUS
T or F, for ex. ANS
Take a whack at TRY
Talk too much YAP
Taoism founder LAOTZU
The Nostra of Cosa Nostra OUR
To be across the sea? ETRE
Tony Blair, e.g. BRIT
TV's Golden Girls, e.g. MIAMIANS
Tweed tweaker Thomas NAST
Type of army or band ONEMAN
Wd. explanation DEF
What's holding up dinner? TABLELEG
WWII command ETO
Zhivago portrayer et al. OMARS
Zonker's is famous, in Doonesbury TAN
___ a T SUITTO
___ degree TOA
___ good example SETSA
___ Romeo ALFA