L.A. Times Sunday - Sep 24 2006

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Clues Answers
"Acoustic Soul" singer India.--- ARIE
"Blah blah blah" abbr. ETC
"Brokeback Mountain" director ANGLEE
"En ---!" GARDE
"I Run for Life" singer Etheridge MELISSA
"My Way" writer ANKA
"Yeah, I guess" UHHUH
"You bet" SURE
1958 Best Picture GIGI
Absorption process OSMOSIS
Actual TRUE
Adam Smith's subj. ECON
Akin SIMILAR
Anapest cousin IAMB
Anticrime acronym since 1970 RICO
AOL or MSN, e.g. ISP
Arrives on horseback RIDESUP
Association for the impatient? PUSHLEAGUE
Baby with big eyes OWLET
Balm for impatience's effects? AFTERSHOVELOTION
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Roush EDD
Beat, to Barbirolli TEMPO
Before, briefly TIL
Berserk AMOK
Bible sects. BKS
Big bashes GALAS
Boats with high poops DHOWS
Bogus FAKE
Bulb output, perhaps TULIP
C-level AVERAGE
Cannes festival's "Palme ---" DOR
Carburetor cover HOOD
Classic sci-fi race ELOI
Comic dubbed the Entertainer CEDRIC
Complex division UNIT
Composer Kern JEROME
Contains HAS
Criminal clique MOB
Diagon, in Harry Potter books ALLEY
Diamond of Queens SHEA
Do groundbreaking work HOE
Double negative? NONO
Driving need URGE
Eurasian divider URALS
Far from peppy LOGY
Fervid follower FANATIC
Fulton's Folly STEAMBOAT
Get high SOAR
Get impatient with family elders? PRODGRANDPARENTS
Get the point SCORE
Gets the picture SEES
Gives lip service? SMOOCHES
Goofs off LOAFS
Goya's impatient subject? DUCHESSOFELBOW
Group that sticks to its guns NRA
Head makeup? SUDS
Hellenic consonant KAPPA
His Master's Voice co. RCA
Hold GRASP
Holy Fr. woman STE
Impatient Northwest burg? GOOSEBAYOREGON
IRAs or CDs, often NESTEGGS
Irritates NETTLES
It's best when cracked JOKE
Kathryn of "Law and Order: CI" ERBE
Lady of the house? MADAM
Lamp filament element TUNGSTEN
Lane who sang with Cugat ABBE
Language that gave us whiskey ERSE
Last Latin word on a coin UNUM
Layer cake layer TIER
Like a milquetoast MEEK
Clues Answers
Like Silver's rider LONE
Linguist-activist Chomsky NOAM
Lip-puckering TART
Look on SPECTATE
Maestro --- -Pekka Salonen ESA
Make the calls REF
Market current TREND
Melon testers THUMPERS
Mess or press follower KIT
Most meager SPAREST
Most of Israel NEGEV
Nick of "Hotel Rwanda" NOLTE
Nile viper ASP
NNN in Naxos NUS
No. in a travel guide RTE
Ostrich lookalike RHEA
Our star SOL
Pairs with drums EARS
Part of UCLA LOS
Plains Indian mainstay BISON
Plays mind games PSYCHS
Pleasant distractions ESCAPES
Portable PC LAPTOP
President known for impatience? JAMESKPOKE
Prevent from acting DETER
Prism products SPECTRA
Prosperous period BOOM
Pseudo-aesthetic ARTY
Put in groups SORTOUT
Put on the line? DREW
Rebuke to a buttinsky MYOB
Refer ALLUDE
Restrains a show of impatience? HOLDSDOWNAJAB
Rhythmic bounce LILT
Ridicules roundly ROASTS
Ring of frangipani blossoms LEI
Rock onstage CHRIS
Rubik of cube fame ERNO
Sacred HOLY
Schnozzes SNOOTS
Setting in Saroyan stories SALINAS
Show model behavior? POSE
Signs of baseball fans' impatience? BLEACHERBUMPS
Snaky character ESS
Sociological spirit ETHOS
Sommer of cinema ELKE
Source of iron ORE
SSN pt. SOC
Stalag GIs POWS
Stone and Stallone SLYS
Stravinsky or Sikorsky IGOR
Tell it like it isn't LIE
Tender touch CARESS
They go on and off RAMPS
They're big in Hollywood EGOS
Threatens IMPERILS
Toledo titles SENORS
Trembling tree ASPEN
Triangular street sign YIELD
Unbitten bits ORTS
Use binoculars PEER
Vinaigrette essential OIL
Walk like a peacock STRUT
Was obsequious KOWTOWED
Weapon of mouse destruction? TRAP
Wether report? BAA
What your mileage may do VARY
Wine, in combinations ENO
Winter blanket SNOW
Word in many Commandments NOT
Young plant SEEDLING