L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Aug 24, 2014

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Solutions - Aug 24, 2014

Clue	Answer
"As I see it," in texts	IMO
"How relaxing!"	AAH
"In your dreams"	NOPE
"Maybe even less"	IFTHAT
"Mr. Blue Sky" band, briefly	ELO
14-legged crustaceans	ISOPODS
2001 honor for J.K. Rowling	OBE
2010 title role for Denzel	ELI
2014 U.S. Senior Open winner Montgomerie	COLIN
Acct. earnings	INT
Advanced degs	PHDS
Airport transport	TRAM
Analytical write-up	CASESTUDY
Appetizer in una taberna	TAPA
Artisan group	GUILD
Ball game delayers	STORMS
Baptism, e.g	RITE
Barely burn	SEAR
Bear overhead	URSA
Bees battling over nectar?	HONEYCOMBAT
Big party for jalopy owners?	BEATERBASH
Biker's trail?	RIDINGHABITAT
Bores for ore	MINES
Bring up	REAR
Brought to Broadway	STAGED
Call for	NEED
Cantina cooker	OLLA
Catamaran mover	SAIL
Catching position	CROUCH
China problem	CHIP
China setting	FAREAST
Classic pops	NEHIS
Clergyman who works wonders?	MIRACLECURATE
Clipped, in a way	SHORN
Clothing fold	CUFF
Coll. drilling group	ROTC
Colorado county or its seat	PUEBLO
Comic strip frame	PANEL
Competition with slashing	PRICEWAR
Condescending sort	SNOB
Connect with	TIETO
Corn or cotton	CROP
Corporate division	SALES
Delighted	GLAD
Demolition aid	TNT
Didn't fill yet, as calendar slots	HASOPEN
Diva highlights	SOLI
Drips on the driveway	OILSPOTS
Driving need?	TEE
Elementary bit	ATOM
Emergency supplies delivery method	AIRDROP
Enjoyed some courses	DINED
Equipment	GEAR
Evil sitcom organization	KAOS
Extra vacation clothes?	SPAREATTIRE
Fab Four name	LENNON
Fairy tale food	PORRIDGE
Fakes being	ACTS
Fanny pack spot	HIP
Flier's printout	ETICKET
Form of oxygen	OZONE
Formal affair wear	TAILS
Friendly court contest	ONESET
Frog's kiddie-lit friend	TOAD
Future litigator's study	PRELAW
Game division	PERIOD
Gave stars to kippers?	RATEDHERRING
Genetic messenger	RNA
Geometry figure	AREA
Happened next	ENSUED
Hoisting devices	WINCHES
Identical	SAME
Intention	AIM
Intimate modern message	SEXT
Iris locale	UVEA
It's usually not a hit	SIDEB
Jerks	BONEHEADS
Leaves high and dry	STRANDS
Like many King novels	EERIE
Like some bears' market predictions	DIRE
Makeshift shelters	HUTS
Mars, to the Greeks	ARES
Matthews of "Hardball"	CHRIS
Media mogul with a Presidential Medal of Freedom	OPRAH
Mid-Atlantic st	DEL
Mil. no-show	AWOL
Mortar trough	HOD
Mother of the Valkyries	ERDA
Mouth formations	DELTAS
Move like ivy	CREEP
Much of Libya	SAHARA
New Balance competitor	AVIA
Not leave things to chance	PLAN
Off the mark	AMISS
One may be padded	BRA
One of four singing brothers	EDAMES
Periscope part	LENS
Photoshop developer	ADOBE
Poet who feuded with Pope Boniface VIII	DANTE
Pops in the fridge	SODAS
Portfolio element, for short	IRA
Portfolio units	SHARES
Punto and Bravo	FIATS
Puts on the right track	ORIENTS
Race	TEAR
Reactions to mice, maybe	EEKS
Reckless	RASH
Relay stick	BATON
Reserved __	SEAT
Ristorante suffix	INI
Rival of Brom in an 1820 novel	ICHABOD
RMN was his VP	DDE
Run	MANAGE
Sanction	ALLOW
Sets a price of	ASKS
Sharp turn	ZAG
Shrill cry	YELP
Sight from the Sicilian village of Taormina	ETNA
Signed off on	OKAYED
Simply not done	TABOO
Singer Mann	AIMEE
Solidify	CAKE
Spew out	EGEST
Strong flavor	TANG
Suffix with stamp	EDE
Sunflower relative	ASTER
Swindler at a New York zoo?	BRONXCHEATER
They may be rough	EDGES
They may be writable	CDS
Three-part figs	SSNS
Toledo's lake	ERIE
Traveling	AWAY
Trying experiences	ORDEALS
TV talk pioneer	PAAR
Upheaval	THROES
Vast, in verse	ENORM
Virtuoso	ACE
Volga Region daily?	TATARPAPER
Voting coalition	BLOC
Wildly excited	FRENETIC
Wiped out	DEAD
Wood shop tools	LATHES
Word of support	YEA
__ premium	ATA