L.A. Times Daily May 12 2011

ClueAnswer
"Ain't __ Sweet" SHE
"Back Stabbers" group, with "The" OJAYS
"Battle Cry" author URIS
"Don't mind __" IFIDO
"Up in the Air" Oscar nominee Farmiga VERA
"Wheel of Fortune" purchase ANI
1999 movie about a reality show EDTV
1? TOOKTHEGOLD
2? EXCESSIVELY
46th U.S. state OKLA
4? INFAVOROF
8? HADDINNER
A lot like AKINTO
After the current act UPNEXT
Animal's stomach MAW
Annual draft org. NBA
Bacteria-fighting drug SULFA
Blessing preceder ACHOO
Business head? AGRI
Cake finisher ICER
Cedar kin FIR
Cheering crowd member FAN
Columbus's birthplace GENOA
Common college admissions requirement ESSAY
Contrary retort DOESNOT
Dig up UNEARTH
Donor classification letters ABO
Exclamation from Colonel Pickering BYJOVE
Female rabbit DOE
Fifties, say MIDDLEAGE
First noble gas discovered ARGON
Food chain IHOP
French darling AMIE
Goddess of peace IRENE
Happy hour order ALE
Indian drum TABLA
Insipid BLAND
It's slower than adagio LENTO
Its full name means "jumping flea" in Hawaiian UKE
Lake Michigan city GARY
Like-minded gps. ASSNS
Long-armed ape ORANG
Monthly expense RENT
Morse character DAH
Newsman Roger ONEIL
Not quite dry DAMP
Noted sin scene EDEN
Nuevo __: Peruvian currency SOL
One who brings out the inner child? MOM
Ones with dark-spotted faces DICE
Operated RAN
Org. featuring seasonal flu information AMA
Owner of a legendary lantern kicker OLEARY
Pastoral poem IDYLL
Pastures LEAS
Printers' measures EMS
Protein building block, for short AMINO
Raison d'__ ETRE
Reduce bit by bit PARE
Snowy WHITE
Somber genre NOIR
Some Bosnians SERBS
Squeezing (out) EKING
Start to cure? PEDI
Start to stop BRAKE
Tempe sch. ASU
They're not literal, and this puzzle's title FIGURESOFSPEECH
Try to catch CHASE
Underworld bigwig DON
Valuable rock ORE
Varnish resin ELEMI
Virginia political family BYRDS
Wander aimlessly ROVE
Wandered aimlessly MEANDERED
When doubled, a fish MAHI
Wolf, at times OGLER
Yale of Yale University ELIHU
Yippie name ABBIE
Anagrammer Crossword Solver is a powerful crossword puzzle resource site. We maintain millions of regularly updated crossword solutions, clues and answers of almost every popular crossword puzzle and word game out there. We encourage you to bookmark our puzzle solver as well as the other word solvers throughout our site. Explore deeper into our site and you will find many educational tools, flash cards and plenty more resources that will make you a much better player.