L.A. Times Magazine May 25 2008 crossword clues & answers

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L.A. Times Magazine May 25 2008

Clue	Answer
"Chinatown" gumshoe	JAKE
"Don't Bring Me Down" band	ELO
"Friend ___?"	ORFOE
"Have a piece!"	TRYONE
"No kiddin'!"	GEE
"___ am a sinful man" (Luke 5:8)	FORI
"___ impossible"	ITS
-ish alternative	ESE
1954 song ("okay, but it won't be easy")	FLYMETOTHEMOON
1955 hit song ("okay, but it won't be easy")	CRYMEARIVER
1958 hit song ("okay, but it won't be easy")	CATCHAFALLINGSTAR
1959 show tune ("okay, but it won't be easy")	CLIMBEVRYMOUNTAIN
1965 hit song ("okay, but it won't be easy")	MAKETHEWORLDGOAWAY
1991 rock tune ("okay, but it won't be easy")	WALKONTHEOCEAN
1992 pop song ("okay, but it won't be easy")	SAVEUPALLYOURTEARS
Abbreviation of appreciation	THX
Actor Montand	YVES
Actor Yaphet	KOTTO
Afternoon affair	TEA
Agcy. estab. in 1862	IRS
Ahead of time	EARLY
Anat., e.g.	SCI
Aphrodite loved him	ADONIS
Appeared	SEEMED
Author Kesey	KEN
Banquet	DINNER
Bell ringer	TOLLER
Bible verb	HATH
Bible vessels	ARKS
Bills	CASH
Blade maker	GILLETTE
Body section	TORSO
Boll's I	ICH
Brat's target	SHIN
Brief freedom?	LIB
Building wing	ELL
Bullfighters, once	TOREADORS
Cameo stone	ONYX
Catchall abbr.	ETC
Certain noncom: abbr.	MSGT
City NE of Sacramento	ROSEVILLE
Cleans quickly	RINSES
Climactic opening?	ANTI
Cousteau's milieu	MER
D.C. type	POL
Datebook datum: abbr.	APPT
Dean of best-sellers	KOONTZ
Decennial event	CENSUS
Deep as ___	AWELL
Drove (along)	TOOLED
Dry white Italian wine	SOAVE
Eclipse shadows	UMBRAS
Egyptian bigwig	MUBARAK
Ellipse-determining points	FOCI
Enter a soapbox derby?	ORATE
Experience anew	RELIVE
Fishing need	LINE
Flees (town)	SKIPS
Fridge features	ICEMAKERS
Furrow	STRIA
Good sign?	HALO
Green-curry cuisine	THAI
Guy on the Ponderosa set	LORNE
Hawaiian city	HILO
He dressed Grace and Marilyn	OLEG
Hit the links	PLAYGOLF
Hooch, humorously	FIREWATER
Hope for addicts	DETOX
Hot tub sounds	AHS
Identity query	WHO
In a mousy way	MEEKLY
In a nimble manner	SPRYLY
Influence	AFFECT
Ingot stuff, in 45 Down	ORO
Is up	BATS
It's a rising thing	YEAST
Jason's ship	ARGO
Larry's producer on "The Larry Sanders Show"	ARTIE
LBJ VP	HHH
Like the '20s	ROARING
Like the sky	HIGH
Lion's share's opposite	LEAST
Listen to again, as a case	REHEAR
Louisiana soups	GUMBOS
Love god	EROS
Malingerers	FAKERS
Mangle	MAIM
Mausoleum's front?	TAJ
Mexican state	SONORA
Mind numbers	IQS
MIT grad, perh.	ENGR
Most egregious	WORST
Mustard's rank: abbr.	COL
N.Y.C. tourist attraction	MOMA
Needlefish	GAR
Neet rival	NAIR
O'Hara's home	TARA
One of Joan of Arc's crimes	HERESY
Online address, familiarly	URL
Opera about a diva	TOSCA
Opinions	VIEWS
Oscillates, as a projectile	YAWS
Outback sight	EMU
Part of DOS	SYSTEM
Person with a whip	TAMER
Petal perfumes	ATTARS
Prompt	CUE
Reed you can read	REX
Remove dowels (from)	UNPEG
Remus, e.g.	UNCLE
Roanoke's Virginia	DARE
Roughage	FIBER
Saucer people	ALIENS
Scold	BERATE
Singer Sumac	YMA
Site of a 2007 surge	IRAQ
Sleeveless garments	VESTS
Soccer ___	MOM
Some six-packs	CANS
Spoil a surprise	PEEK
St. Louis to Louisville	EAST
Stiffly theatrical	STAGY
Straightened (out)	IRONED
Swan lady	LEDA
Swedish name that's an Indian name backward	IVAR
Tailor's concern	FIT
Take hold	SETIN
Tear	RIP
The Hindenburg, e.g.	ZEPPELIN
The woman in the song "Woman"	ONO
Time-stamp anew	REDATE
Tomato sauce brand	RAGU
Touches repeatedly with a towel	PATSDRY
Transpired	OCCURRED
Warm coat	PARKA
Wear away	ERODE
What dendro- means	TREE
Within: pref.	ENDO
Witness words	IDO
___ hog	WART
___ kwon do	TAE
___ up (hits a shallow fly)	POPSIT

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