L.A. Times Daily - Aug 19, 2015 Wednesday Crossword Puzzle Answer

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - Aug 19, 2015 Wednesday

Clue	Answer
__ Rapids, Iowa	CEDAR
__-pitch softball	SLO
1987 title law-enforcing cyborg	ROBOCOP
Ally in a TV courtroom	MCBEAL
Ambition	DRIVE
Anne of Green Gables community	AVONLEA
Anti-apartheid org.	ANC
Author of "Hawaii," "Alaska," and "Texas"	MICHENER
Barnaby Jones star	EBSEN
Beautify	ADORN
Brunch cookware item	OMELET PAN
C&W's __ Ridge Boys	OAK
Common street name	ELM
Cookie fruit	FIG
Cut that may need stitches	GASH
Exemplary	IDEAL
Flock member	RAM
Game with Skip cards	UNO
Get (a ship) ready to sail again	RERIG
Gumshoe	TEC
Happy Pills singer Jones	NORAH
Hardly talkative	TERSE
Hearth dust	ASH
Hip, hip, Jorge!	OLE!
Intimate	CLOSE
Irma la __	DOUCE
Jam fruit	APRICOT
Jeopardize	ENDANGER
Jet black	EBONY
Lamp gas	NEON
Lavish affairs	FETES
Like a shady boulevard ... and like this puzzle, in terms of its 12 border answers	TREELINED
Like mil. volunteers	ENL
Lilly of pharmaceuticals	ELI
Long-jawed fish	GARS
MacGyver actor Dana	ELCAR
Maritime route	SEA LANE
Marketing leader?	TELE
Meets, as a challenge	RISES TO
Mrs. Gorbachev	RAISA
My Antonia novelist	CATHER
New Jersey township named for an inventor	EDISON
Nudge	PROD
Old Norse explorer	ERIC
Online letter	EMAIL
Order in the court	WRIT
Parkay, say	OLEO
Party throwers	HOSTS
Pastoral expanse	LEA
Payment for a return	RANSOM
Piques	SNITS
Poison drunk by Socrates	HEMLOCK
Prove otherwise	BELIE
Provence pronoun	ILS
Psychologist Alfred	ADLER
PX shopper	NCO
Robin Hood's bow wood	YEW
Second of 13 popes	LEO II
Shade of green	PEA
Silly blunder	BONER
Situation before a two-run homer	ONE ON
Snapple's __ Madness	MANGO
Spenser's "The __ Queene"	FAERIE
Strange: Pref.	XENO-
Structures with many layers?	HENHOUSES
Syrup type	MAPLE
Take down __	A PEG
The Seven Year Itch actor Tom	EWELL
To some degree	SORT OF
Trailing	IN TOW
Trident, e.g.	GUM
Try to tempt with	USE ON
Walk faster than	OUTSTEP
Wheel-spinning rodent	HAMSTER
Wield	EXERT
You beat me	I LOSE