L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Oct 02, 2014

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Solutions - Oct 02, 2014

Clue	Answer
"No one knows"	WHOCANTELL
"__ Cried": 1962 hit for Jay and the Americans	SHE
Act surprised	START
Apt challenger of this puzzle's circled locations	MOUNTAINCLIMBER
Astra or Insignia	OPEL
Bars with character, to some	DIVES
Blu-ray player ancestor	VCR
Book before Joel	HOSEA
Brit who might lose a stone?	DIETER
Certain Muslim	SHIITE
Cicero, for one	ORATOR
Classic music hall song that lent its melody to the "Howdy Doody" theme	TARARABOOMDEAY
CV component	BIO
Diminutive, diminutively	LIL
Doctoral candidate's hurdle	ORALS
Donated for the benefit of	GAVETO
DWI-fighting gp	SADD
Enthusiast	LOVER
Fated	MEANTTOBE
From the top	ANEW
Genesis	ORIGIN
Greek letter	ETA
Greetings	HELLOS
Half a drink	TAI
Hardest to get close to	ICIEST
Hint	GETAT
Hit the hay	RETIRE
Home of the bush ballad	AUSTRALIA
Ice cream maker Joseph	EDY
Insincere flattery	SMARM
Lake Erie city	TOLEDOOHIO
Letterman interviewee, say	GUEST
Like family	RELATED
Like some ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos	VIRAL
Long-eared beast	ASS
McDonald's supply	PATTIES
Name incorrectly	MISCALL
Old Fords	LTDS
One checking stories	EDITOR
Painter Chagall	MARC
Pooch sans papers	MUTT
Prepares (oneself), as for combat	STEELS
Puts on cargo	LADES
Reminder of a kind	POSTIT
Reproductive cells	OVA
Roadie's burden	AMP
Rocky pinnacle	TOR
Room with a remote, often	DEN
Salad vegetable	RADISH
Santa __ Mountains	ANA
Selassie of Ethiopia	HAILE
Send, in a way	EMAIL
Service station offering	AIR
Seventh-century pope	LEOII
Slower than adagio	LENTO
Slowing, in scores	RIT
Small South American monkey	TITI
Snake eye?	ONE
Start of a confession	BLESSME
Stew base	BROTH
Sturdy tree	ELM
Succor	AID
Swindle	CON
Take in	EARN
Three sheets to the wind	LIT
Town in a Hersey title	ADANO
Trading unit	SHARE
Unalaska, e.g	ALEUTIANISLAND
Wide key	ENTER
Yankee suspended for the 2014 season	AROD
__ culpa	MEA
__ tape	DUCT