L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answers - Mar 21, 2014

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Solutions - Mar 21, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Beloved" author Morrison	TONI
"Driving Miss Daisy" setting	ATLANTA
"He makes no friends who never made __": Tennyson	AFOE
"Let it be so!"	AMEN
"Right away!"	STAT
"This American Life" host Glass	IRA
"__ for Innocent": Grafton novel	IIS
'50s Dem. presidential hopeful	AES
Against	ANTI
Annual Christmas party group	OFFICESTAFF
Antique cane topper	KNOB
ASCAP rival	BMI
Bible book	RUTH
Brightened, with "up"	LIT
Brilliance	ECLAT
Caine title role	ALFIE
Chef's tool	WHISK
Chess ploy	GAMBIT
Civilian garb	MUFTI
Creamy spread	BRIE
Dark side	YIN
Distant	FAR
Dr.'s specialty	ENT
Effort to equal others	EMULATION
Exercised caution	PLAYEDITSAFE
Fifths on a staff	SOLS
Finished on top	WON
Fla. NBA team	ORL
Flier that may have four lines	STUNTKITE
Flowing out	EFFLUENT
Fromage hue	BLEU
Fund-raising targets	ALUMNI
Good, in Hebrew	TOV
Got some attention	MADENOISE
Grass-and-roots layer	TURF
Grow	INCREASE
Happen to	BEFALL
Hill worker	AIDE
Home of the N.Y. Rangers	MSG
Humor that won't offend	TASTEFULJOKE
It's hard to untangle	ENIGMA
Jams	TIEUPS
Key abbr	MAJ
Knifelike ridges	ARETES
Knucklehead	OAF
Lisa's title	MONA
Loan letters	IOU
Long poem	EPOS
Maker of "3 Series" cars	BMW
Nintendo's __ mini	WII
One of two Pauline epistles: Abbr	COR
Org. co-founded by Gen. George Wingate	NRA
Part of a disguise	WIG
Passes	ENACTS
Pens for Dickens?	GAOLS
Pentecost, e.g., and what can literally be found in this puzzle's four other longest answers	MOVEABLEFEAST
Prefix with thermal	GEO
Relative of a T-shirt launcher	POTATOGUN
Relaxing retreat	INN
Run	FLEE
Same old thing	RUT
Scarfed down	ATE
Singer with the debut solo album "Love. Angel. Music. Baby."	GWENSTEFANI
Small group	DUO
Social group	KITH
Support	BRACE
Tach no	RPM
Tankard contents	ALE
Theatergoer's option	MATINEE
Thrice due	SEI
Wetlands protection org	EPA
Winning run, perhaps	STREAK
Wrath, in a hymn	IRAE
Yay relative	RAH
__ B'rith	BNAI
__ ray	MANTA