L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 04, 2015

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 04, 2015

Clue	Answer
"Buddenbrooks" author	MANN
"Cupid" singer Sam	COOKE
"Excuse me ..."	AHEM
"Good night, sweet prince" speaker	HORATIO
"Not serious"	IKID
"Put your money away"	ONME
"Sorry, laddie"	NAE
"Taxi" dispatcher	LOUIE
'80s sitcom puppet	ALF
2014 A.L. MVP Mike Trout, for one	ANGEL
32-card game	SKAT
Advice from a pro	TIP
Asian-American actor Philip known for war movie roles	AHN
Band booster	AMP
Batting postures	STANCES
Beaut	GEM
Become ill with	GET
Belittle	DIS
Bilko's mil. rank	MSGT
Bit of sneakiness	RUSE
Board game staples	DICE
Book read during the Jewish holiday Purim	ESTHER
Budapest-born magician	HOUDINI
Capitol Hill gp	CONG
Choral part	BASS
Choral parts	ALTOS
Cohesion	UNITY
College town east of Greensboro	ELON
Conserve	HUSBAND
Cyberguffaw	LOL
D neighbors on most guitars	GSTRINGS
Dean's "Lois & Clark" co-star	TERI
Destruction	RUIN
Director Spike	LEE
Displeased	IRKED
Dispute settlers	ARBITERS
Dog follower	SLED
Doing the job	ONIT
Dr.'s specialty	ENT
Dramatic movie scene	CHASE
Duelers in a 1973 hit	BANJOS
Enlightened cries	AHAS
Enter carefully	EASEINTO
Features of Lincoln and Uncle Sam	GOATEES
Figures on a rink	EIGHTS
Finding a home for an Anaheim team?	SITINGDUCKS
First lady after Eleanor	BESS
First stage	ONSET
Flowers in pens?	INKS
French possessive	SES
Frightened	ALARMED
Furniture-weaving facility?	CANINGFACTORY
Glowing	RADIANT
Go down	DROP
Google co-founder Sergey	BRIN
Grand Canal?	POLINGPLACE
Gretchen of "Boardwalk Empire"	MOL
Grounded fleet	SSTS
Had in one's portfolio	HELD
Hairstyle curl	RINGLET
Hole starters	TEESHOTS
Hosiery thread	LISLE
How deadpan humor is delivered	DRILY
Howdies	YOS
In __ land	LALA
Indication	SIGN
It made its last commercial flight in February 2014	DCTEN
Jilted "dear" lover who hasn't given up?	HOPINGJOHN
John Lennon's middle name	ONO
Joins the debate	OPINES
Kachina doll maker	HOPI
Keep a record of	LOG

Clue	Answer
Labor dispute tactic	LOCKOUT
Lac filler	EAU
Letters seen next to a 4	GHI
Like some bird calls	SHRILL
Liszt's "Piano Sonata __ Minor"	INB
London locale	ONTARIO
Making a patio out of a garden?	TILINGTHESOIL
Making hay when the sun doesn't shine?	SNOWBALING
Manicurist's work area?	FILINGSTATION
Manuals, e.g	HOWTOS
Marine eagle	ERN
Mariners' home	SEATTLE
Micro- ending	COSM
Miles away	AFAR
Military competition	ARMSRACE
Milk sources	UDDERS
NYC subway	IRT
Omar of "House"	EPPS
One of the teams that made the Pac-10 the Pac-12	UTES
Online crafts store	ETSY
Oscar-winning composer Menken	ALAN
Oval-shaped dose	CAPLET
Palais resident	ROI
Parlor design, perhaps	TAT
Pinnacle	ACME
Place to get refreshed	OASIS
Platte River tribe	OTOE
Poivre companion	SEL
Portfolio component	STOCK
Potato often used for fries	RUSSET
Pres. or gov	LDR
Providing extra digital support?	TOETAPING
Purse	HANDBAG
Rapa __	NUI
Regally dressing aristocrats?	ROBINGTHERICH
Reiki practitioner	HEALER
Rhodes with a scholarship	CECIL
Romantic skunk	LEPEW
Scenically patterned fabric	TOILE
Seldom seen	SCARCE
Shoe parts	UPPERS
Sin	TRESPASS
Skye writing	ERSE
Smart __	ALECK
Smoker's buy: Abbr	CTN
Some NFL linemen	RTS
Spares in boots	TYRES
Squeezes (out)	EKES
Still puzzled	NOWISER
Store	SHOP
Surprise attack	RAID
Tab	BARBILL
Tenth of ten, say	LAST
They "had decayed to a mere beautiful futility": Wells	ELOI
Thrown for __	ALOOP
Tibiae supporters	TALI
Tie securely	LASH
Tiny colonists	ANTS
Title girl in a 1968 Turtles hit	ELENORE
Understanding	KEN
Untanned animal skin	RAWHIDE
Utility co. unit	KWH
Very proper sort	PRUDE
Vietnamese port	HAIPHONG
Vishnu worshiper	HINDU
Visit briefly, as a sick friend	LOOKINON
Web chat exchange	IMS
Windy City "L" runner	CTA
Words to strike up the band	HITIT
Words with hunch or bet	ONA
Yale alum	ELI
__ mask	SKI