L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - Mar 08, 2015

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Answer - Mar 08, 2015

Clues	Answers
"Beau __"	GESTE
"Don't go yet"	NOWAIT
"Friendly Skies" co	UAL
"Give Peace a Chance" co-writer, per Lennon	ONO
"Gravity" effect	ZEROG
"Idol" judge, familiarly	JLO
"Mr. Pim Passes By" playwright	MILNE
"Shaq Diesel" rapper	ONEAL
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" musical	GIGI
"Unleaded" drink	DECAF
"We are __ stuff / As dreams are made on": Prospero	SUCH
"What do we have here?!"	OHO
"__ of robins ..."	ANEST
*Come (to), more or less	AVERAGEOUT
*Mitigate	TAKETHEEDGEOFF
*Play it safe	HEDGEONESBETS
*Subject of lengthy debate	AGEOLDQUESTION
*Sulu, for one	BRIDGEOFFICER
*Trial movement	CHANGEOFVENUE
*Union proposal?	MARRIAGEOFFER
2014 World Cup site	BRAZIL
6-Across takers, e.g	TESTEES
70-Across function	STORAGE
Aboriginal emblems	TOTEMS
Adjust, as a spreadsheet	RESIZE
Admission of error	IGOOFED
Bearing a grudge	SORE
Biblical shepherd	ABEL
Blakley of "Nashville"	RONEE
Bleu shade	AZUR
Bros	DUDES
Canonized fifth-cen. pope	STLEO
Cedar Rapids college	COE
Central opening?	CEE
Chief Powhatan's son-in-law	ROLFE
Colonial story	ATTIC
Comedian Howard with a bowl-cut hair style	MOE
Comic strip about a high schooler	ZITS
Company VIP	PREZ
Complains	SQUAWKS
Digs for bats	ROOSTS
Diminished	LESSENED
Duel precursor, perhaps	FEUD
E Street Band guitarist Lofgren	NILS
Emphatic type: Abbr	ITAL
Facility	EASE
Fairy tale start	ONCE
Fallon's predecessor	LENO
FEMA concern	EVAC
Fit to __	ATEE
Flounder, e.g	FISH
Former Mideast org	UAR
Former red state: Abbr	SSR
Fountain order	SODA
Freud contemporary	ADLER
Fundamental	BASAL
Future MD's exam	MCAT
Guiding doctrines	IDEOLOGIES
Head up, in a way	CLIMB
Heron relative	EGRET
Hide-and-seek activity utilizing GPS ... and what is literally done in the answers to starred clues	GEOCACHING
Holds tight	CLINGS
Honored	GRACED
IMO, in "Hamlet"	METHINKS
In __ of: replacing	LIEU
Jar Jar Binks' home planet	NABOO
K-5 or K-6: Abbr	ELEM
L-__: Parkinson's treatment	DOPA
Lamentable	TRAGIC
Lee __, first African-American to play in the Masters	ELDER

Clues	Answers
Left, in slang	BLEW
Like many old soaps	LIVE
Like the bell of a trumpet	FLARED
Like the town in a Ricky Nelson hit	LONESOME
Line partitions: Abbr	SEGS
London borough	SUTTON
Magic charms	MOJOS
Many a worm	BORER
Medical co. in the DJIA	JANDJ
Metal-threaded fabrics	LAMES
Mil. base drillers	SGTS
Mooch	BEG
Move on	LETGO
Musical highlight	ARIA
Network with a three-box logo	BBC
Neuter, as horses	GELD
Nicholas and Alexander	TSARS
Noodle	NOB
Observation platform	ROOFDECK
Observed	SAW
Observes	BEHOLDS
Of no consequence	MOOT
Offer to a guest	CHAIR
Old "Oyez!" shouters	CRIERS
Old TV host with an accordion	WELK
One on the trail	HIKER
Opposite of a pan	RAVE
Pick-me-up pill	NODOZ
Pity-evoking quality	PATHOS
Poetic time	MORN
Prayer	ORISON
Puts in, as a political office	ELECTSTO
Ran, old-style	HIED
Regarding	INRE
Reproductive cell	OVUM
Road alert	BEEP
Sawbuck	TENNER
Scorch	CHAR
Scroll key	PAGEDOWN
Sexy, in a way	SEETHRU
Short-cut pasta	ORZO
Sign of approval	NOD
Signed off on	OKD
Small application	DAB
Soft-wool sources	MERINOS
South Korean sportswear company	FILA
Spare tyre sites	BOOTS
Sports legend of 5-Down	PELE
St. Patrick's land	ERIN
Staff sequence	EGBDF
Standing tall	ERECT
Starlike	ASTRAL
State in northeast India	ASSAM
Swipe from	ROB
Taper off	WANE
Tops, slangily	DABOMB
Tot's piggy	TOE
Turner and others	IKES
Twistable treat	OREO
Versailles assembly	SENAT
Was duly humiliated	ATECROW
Well beyond one's prime	LATEINLIFE
Where lines may be read	PALM
Whip handle	CROP
Windy City hub	OHARE
Word with waffle or sugar	CONE
__ benefit	FRINGE
__ Criss, who plays Blaine on "Glee"	DARREN
__ Fáil: Irish "stone of destiny"	LIA
__-Croatian language	SERBO