L.A. Times Magazine May 14 2006 crossword clues & answers

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L.A. Times Magazine May 14 2006

Clue	Answer
"Clue" suspect	PLUM
"Here it is!"	AHA
"I was working in ___ ..." (start of "Monster Mash")	THELAB
"No time to wallow in the ___" (Doors lyric)	MIRE
"Okay, you win!"	UNCLE
"That's just what I needed!"	THANKS
"Think I'm kidding?"	OHNO
"___ saying goes ..."	ASTHE
"___ thought"	ORSOI
A big fan of	INTO
A real mouthful?	TEETH
Actor Diffring or Walbrook	ANTON
Ahab and others: abbr.	CAPTS
Art Spiegelman's 1992 Pulitzer-winning rodent novel	MAUS
Auth. unknown	ANON
Aware of, slangily	HIPTO
Background crew	EXTRAS
Backtalk	SASS
Bar wedge	LEMON
Barrel of laughs	RIOT
Beet variety	CHARD
Bewitched role	DARRIN
Bleak House girl	ADA
Boer War setting, the ___	TRANSVAAL
Breath-holding crowd reaction	HUSH
Business mgmt.	ADMIN
Card choice	DEBIT
Carries a heavy caseload?	LUGS
Certain bazaargoer	ARAB
Changed clips, perhaps	RELOADED
Chilling pieces?	ICE
Clip out	SCISSOR
Coffeemaker style	DRIP
Columbia River highlight	GORGE
Comes before	ANTEDATES
Concerning	ASTO
Coward's lack	SPINE
Creator of Willy, the chocolate maker	ROALD
Crop up	ARISE
Cross word?	BAH
Cycle's front-end?	TRI
Disney acronym	EPCOT
Double-crosser	RAT
DVD reader	LASER
E. follower	COLI
Emulate Ernie Els	GOLF
Exodus co-star	MINEO
First-class	GRADEA
Fishing for certain fish	TROUTING
Flight height, on a gauge	ALT
Gas in a sign	NEON
Get ___ (toss)	RIDOF
Giant author's first name	EDNA
Gillette's ___ II	TRAC
Giving the boot	AXING
Grand in scope	EPIC
Great movie for puzzle fans, The Last of ___	SHEILA
Half a dance	CHA
Hard-nosed	STERN
Have debts	OWE
He said "splainin' "	DESI
Hemingway's Adams	NICK
Hill building	CAPITOL
Hotshot	ACE
Iliac intro	SACRO
In all likelihood: abbr.	PROB
In ___ (going nowhere)	ARUT
Ingrid's last role	GOLDA
Keats creations	ODES
Kong's cousins	APES
Latest fad	RAGE
Latest, perhaps	NEWS
Like milk on the floor	SPILT
Like most notebook paper	RULED
Like some beef	AGED
Like some hockey goals (so-called because the goalie is away from the crease)	EMPTYNET
Mansion employee	MAID
Masters hurdles	ORALS
Mattress giant	SERTA
Medium power?	ESP
Mo. no. 8	AUG
More expeditiously	SOONER
Mortarboard tosser	GRAD
Namath's last team	RAMS
Negative noises	BOOS
NYC's ___ Lehman Plaza	SHEARSON
NYPD Blue co-star	SMITS
Old word for zero	AUGHT
Parish priest	VICAR
Peak that inspired a company name	ETNA
Periodic table abbr.	ATWT
Playbill paragraph	BIO
Private entertainers?	USO
Protagonists	HEROES
Put-on	ACT
Quick note	LINE
R-V contents	STU
Related	AKIN
Rust or lime	OXIDE
Scatter	STREW
Shaper in a shop	LATHE
Sharp, as a turn	HAIRPIN
Shipyard relics	HULKS
Short partner?	SWEET
Sign in the dark	EXIT
Slight fight	SPAT
Snake-eyes	TWO
Solitary sort	RECLUSE
Spanish entree, carne ___	ASADA
Stays around longer than	OUTLIVES
Taffeta trait	SHEEN
The chuckwagon cook ___	SPILLEDTHEBEANS
The cowboy ___	FELLOFFTHEWAGON
The furniture designer ___	DROPPEDHISDRAWERS
The gum-chewing child actor ___	STUCKTOTHESCRIPT
The machinist ___	LOSTHISBEARINGS
The nearsighted boxer ___	PUNCHEDTHECLOCK
The Pentecost painter	ELGRECO
The submarine skipper ___	SCRAPEDTHEBOTTOM
The, to Goya	LAS
Theater deliveries	REELS
Tijuana tip, maybe	PESO
Took a break	SAT
Total pros?	CPAS
Traffic woes	SNARLS
Trouble for 12 Down	DISTRESS
Turkish VIP, once	PASHA
Umiak rowers	ESKIMOS
Unit of Elmer Fudd laughter	HEH
Villains' victims, perhaps	DAMSELS
Walker, on signs	PED
Wallpaper design	MOTIF
Washington State's motto (it's Chinook for "by and by" and has nothing to do with drinking)	ALKI
With, to Godard	AVEC
Word in a Salinger title	RYE
Words with a certain ring?	IDO
___ in the bucket	ADROP
___ manual	USERS
___-disant (self-styled)	SOI

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