L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Aug 03, 2014

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Solutions - Aug 03, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Absolutely, amigo!"	SISI
"Father of the American Cartoon"	NAST
"Fernando" band	ABBA
"If I may butt in ..."	AHEM
"Return of the Jedi" dancer	OOLA
"Sesame Street" store owner	HOOPER
"Shame on you!"	TUT
"Symphony in Black" et al	ERTES
"Take it!" response, in a jazz club	SOLO
"The Aviator" Oscar nominee	ALDA
"The Gondoliers" bride	TESSA
"The Robots of Dawn" author	ASIMOV
"You can't get out this way"	NOEXIT
1921 sci-fi play	RUR
Actor Morales	ESAI
Actress Scacchi	GRETA
Analogy words	ISTO
Apollo landers, briefly	LEMS
Aquarium swimmer	TETRA
Artichoke servings	HEARTS
Base decision maker	UMP
Batting figures	AVERAGES
Baylor, for one: Abbr	UNIV
Be up against	ABUT
Beijing Zoo attraction	PANDA
Berlin School psychological theory	GESTALT
Billionaire bank founder Andy	BEAL
Biol. or chem	SCI
Blows, perhaps	LOSES
Botanical coating	ARIL
Building beam	IBAR
Came down	ALIT
Carbon compounds	ENOLS
Carson tale of well-behaved classroom clock watchers?	SILENTSPRINGFEVER
Certain school team activity	DEBATE
City on the Rhein	KOLN
Code word	DAH
Comment from one rushing in	AMILATE
Complete	UTTER
Condo divs	RMS
Cop's quarry	PERP
Cowboy's rope	RIATA
Dessert cart goodie	TORTE
Dickens tale of math woes?	HARDTIMESTABLES
Didn't __ beat	MISSA
Diplomatic rep	AMB
Disco light	STROBE
Drink that lost the second part of its name in 1961	PEPSI
Drives the getaway car for	ABETS
Earth has one	MOON
Employee IDs	SSNS
Evade	SKIRT
Excitable cell	NEURON
Fish tank flooring	GRAVEL
Foolhardy	RASH
Forgoes the gimme	PUTTS
Get cozy	SNUGGLE
Gets	GRASPS
Giga- x 1,000	TERA
Grannies	NANAS
Half a fish	MAHI
Hardly a doer	IDLER
Having the most marbles	SANEST
Hendrix hairdo	AFRO
Highway breaker?	CBER
Hit song of 1950	RAGMOP
Hoover and Mossyrock	DAMS
Israel's Iron Lady	MEIR
It's often seen in sheets	GLASS
Jim Morrison's alma mater	UCLA
Julia's "Notting Hill" co-star	HUGH
Kick	BOOT
Lab greetings	ARFS
Last Supper attendees	APOSTLES
Late notice?	OBIT
Latin trio member	AMAT
Latvia's most populous city	RIGA
Like Death Valley	SERE
Like Dracula's visage	ASHEN
Mastermind	RINGLEADER
Matches at the poker table	CALLS
Med sch. subject	ANAT
Mended, in a way	DARNED
Mickey and Minnie	MICE
Most mournful	SADDEST
Nods, say	OKS
Noggins	NOBS
Not a great chance	ONEINTEN
Old Bologna bread	LIRE
One with a second	DUELER
Oregon coastal city	ASTORIA
Orwell tale of Beanie Baby breeding?	STUFFEDANIMALFARM
Overdo the buffet, say	PIGOUT
PABA part	AMINO
Palahniuk tale of a rowdy slumber party society?	PILLOWFIGHTCLUB
Parisian's "to be"	ETRE
PC processing unit	MSEC
Phoenix suburb	MESA
Poet Elinor	WYLIE
Poker game tell, maybe	TIC
Pool on a pedestal	BIRDBATH
Predisposition	BIAS
Pres. Mandela's land	RSA
Prime meridian std	GST
Races with sulkies	TROTS
Rapidly shrinking ecosystem	RAINFOREST
Receded	EBBED
Reversals	UTURNS
Rice style	PILAF
Robert De __	NIRO
Samoan capital	APIA
Shooting marbles	AGATES
Skunk River city	AMES
Source of brown fur	STOAT
Spreadsheet figures	DATA
St. Laurent of fashion	YVES
Stop: Abbr	STN
Straight man	FOIL
Stud site	EARLOBE
Sub-Saharan menace	TSETSE
Tattoo parlor supplies	INKS
Texarkana-born '90s candidate	PEROT
The Devil's label?	PRADA
These, in Juarez	ESTAS
Timeline chapter	ERA
Tiny republic formerly called Pleasant Island	NAURU
Tolstoy tale of child's play?	THUMBWARANDPEACE
Tom of "The Dukes of Hazzard"	WOPAT
TWA competitor	USAIR
Undergrad degs	BSS
Updike tale of an idle cereal mascot?	TRIXRABBITATREST
Upper-bod muscle	DELT
Wall St. trader	ARB
War movie staples	HEROES
Welles of "War of the Worlds"	ORSON
What a white flag may mean	TRUCE
Wiimote inserts	AAAS
Wind in a pit	OBOE
Winter outburst?	BRR
Yankee legend, familiarly	DIMAG
__ double take	DOESA
__ drive	TEST