L.A. Times Daily - Aug 20 2008

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Clues Answers
"An American Tragedy" author THEODOREDREISER
"Beats me" IDUNNO
"Laugh-In" co-host DANROWAN
"Romeo+Juliet" costar CLAIREDANES
20-vol. lexicon OED
Actor Auberjonois RENE
Acura model INTEGRA
Ascents RISES
Athlete dubbed "O Rei do Futebol" PELE
Big party BASH
Blood-typing system ABO
Bochco TV series LALAW
Branch of the Dakota Indians TETON
Bunker daughter GLORIA
Campus bigwig DEAN
Chew on, dog-style GNAWAT
Circus barker SEAL
Completely surround BOXIN
Dark-meat source THIGH
Daughter of Cronus HERA
Doll's word MAMA
Explosive letters TNT
Fellow across the pond CHAP
Fill with joy ELATE
Financial aid basis NEED
Four Holy Roman emperors OTTOS
Four-couple activity SQUAREDANCE
From __ Z ATO
H.S. equivalency exam GED
He plays Odafin Tutuola on "Law & Order: SVU" ICET
It might be bendy STRAW
It's present in the sea's H2O NACL
Item seen on the 30-yard line when the game starts TEE
Jawaharlal's daughter INDIRA
Job safety org. OSHA
Large quantity SCAD
Like some scary alleys UNLIT
Look better than? STAREDOWN
Clues Answers
Make initial wedding plans SETADATE
Man-mouse connector ORA
Midland's state TEXAS
Nash specialty PUN
OAS part: Abbr. AMER
On a single occasion ONCE
Paint-spill sound SPLAT
Paraphrase REWORD
Rainbow, to some OMEN
Religious song PSALM
Resident's suffix ITE
Sandy or Roberto of baseball ALOMAR
Sapphic output ODES
Scary bacterium ECOLI
Scimitar relative SABER
Seaweed product AGAR
Set in stone ETCH
Shaky house-building materials? CARDS
Skiers' surface POWDER
Sounds of skepticism HAHS
South Bend institution NOTREDAME
Spanish title SENORA
Start the kitty ANTE
Steak order with a center like that of 17-, 24-, 38-, 48- and 61-Across RARE
Superior at work BOSS
Tach reading RPM
Tall stories? ATTICS
The duck, in "Peter and the Wolf" OBOE
Tough watchdog AKITA
Tranquil SEDATE
Trash emanation ODOR
Tremble QUAKE
Tulsa sch. named for an evangelist ORU
Tune involving intermittent falsetto YODEL
Unconvincing, as an alibi PAT
Use a Honda, perhaps MOW
Veggies sometimes baked in syrup YAMS
Well-placed serve ACE