L.A. Times Daily - Sep 17 2006

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Clues Answers
"I hate to __, but ..." SAYIT
"Isn't he great?" WHATAGUY
"Less is more" paintings MINIMALART
"Mad About You" costar REISER
"Our Town" role STAGEMANAGER
"Riches __ good handmaid, but the worst mistress": Bacon AREA
"Still Crazy" star REA
"The Unanswered Question" composer IVES
"What's it gonna be?" YESORNO
1972 also-ran GEORGEMCGOVERN
1983 invasion site GRENADA
1995 court VIP ITO
Acclaim KUDO
Actor Herbert et al. LOMS
Add sparkle to? AERATE
Airport structure HANGAR
Almost boils SCALDS
Archaeologist's find TROVE
Armstrong's carrier LEM
Barbarian OGRE
Beat Generation period THEFIFTIES
Beer buy TWELVEPACK
Besides TOBOOT
Betoken POINTTO
Bikini consequences TANLINES
Brahms's instrument PIANO
Brief accounts SYNOPSES
Build up GROW
Bully's remark THREAT
Butcher's cut LOIN
Carnegie, by birth SCOT
Chaps HES
Cheryl's "Charlie's Angels" role KRIS
Closed UNOPEN
Coastal flier ERN
Common highway sign MILEAGEMARKER
Common noun suffix TION
Company that licensed Frogger SEGA
Composer Zimmer who won an Oscar for "The Lion King" HANS
Controversial test subject LONGRANGEMISSILE
Cookware item POT
Cosmo rival ELLE
Credit card name CITI
Cybercommerce ETAIL
D.C. influence gps. PACS
Desperado BRIGAND
Doc SAWBONES
Draw out ELICIT
Drinks slowly SIPS
Econ. yardstick GNP
Egotist with lines HAM
Foreboding OMINOUS
Formal opening SEMI
Gear tooth COG
Grover's veep ADLAI
Guitarist Paul LES
Guns & __ magazine AMMO
Gutsy sort DARER
Gyrene's motto SEMPERFI
Half a fiendish laugh HEH
Have __ in one's bonnet ABEE
Hearst creation PUBLISHINGEMPIRE
Hides in the closet? FURS
High-note hitters DIVAS
High-tech aircraft science AVIONICS
Hilo hellos ALOHAS
Hinder IMPEDE
Hug LOVINGEMBRACE
Huge, in slang MONDO
Increase ADDTO
Clues Answers
Insincerely eloquent GLIB
ISP option MSN
It may be hidden AGENDA
It's good if you can break it PAR
January birthstones GARNETS
JFK monitor datum ETA
Judicious PRUDENT
Kind of skiing NORDIC
Lemon DUD
Like a pelvic artery ILIAC
Like Brahms's Piano Trio No. 1 INB
Like pinball machines, briefly COINOP
Like rich batter EGGY
Like some courses: Abbr. REQD
Like some roasts MARBLED
Major, for one RANK
May race, for short INDY
Memphis middle name ARON
Mideast gp. since 1964 PLO
Mom and Pop KIN
Not a lot RARELY
Not working IDLE
Old game show prop GONG
Onetime Brooklynite DODGER
Outspoken to a fault LOUD
Peeved UPINARMS
Perth postgrad school UNI
Place-name abbr. HTS
Plywood wood FIR
Pole, e.g. SLAV
Present for feedback RUNBY
Pull with effort LUG
Rackets makers? MAFIOSI
Rich tapestry ARRAS
Sarong, for one WRAPAROUND
Seismograph pickup TREMOR
Shangri-la EDEN
Shipping department tool POSTAGEMETER
Similarly sound ASGOOD
Some PCs HPS
Spend the night in STAYAT
Sras., at the Sorbonne MMES
Stable sounds NEIGHS
Subj. with maps GEOG
Super ending ETTE
Tangle up ENMESH
Tax ID SSN
Tears RIPS
Theme MAINIDEA
Thumbs-down review PAN
Time and Money, briefly MAGS
Too-good-to-be-true investment SCAM
Tot needing a time-out, maybe WAILER
Transmission pro GARAGEMECHANIC
Trifling detail MINUTIA
Unlikely SLIM
Used a shaft, say MINED
Volcanic fluid MAGMA
VW forerunner? QRSTU
Want ad abbr. EOE
What 14-Downs do EMOTE
Whatever ANY
When to see Nick at night? NOEL
Wide-turning vehicle RIG
Wild way to go APE
Wk. day MON
Writer Fleming IAN
Year in the reign of St. Leo IX MLII
__ Tamid: synagogue lamp NER