L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Jul 13, 2014

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Solutions - Jul 13, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Aida" backdrop	NILE
"Egocentric little creep" of a detective, according to the author who created him	POIROT
"Have an hors d'oeuvre"	TRYONE
"House" actor	EPPS
"Just __"	ASK
"Long Walk to Freedom" autobiographer	MANDELA
"She's a Lady" songwriter	ANKA
"The Information" author Martin	AMIS
"The X-Files" subj	UFO
"Tristram Shandy" author	STERNE
"__ Miz"	LES
"__ to you"	ITSUP
1939 Buck Rogers player	CRABBE
ABBA's homeland: Abbr	SWE
All together	ENMASSE
Assisi trio?	ESSES
Author __ Rogers St. Johns	ADELA
Beef from the weary	NOREST
Brooklynese pronoun	YOUSE
Burning	LIT
Busts a gut over	ROARSAT
Café cup	TASSE
Cambodian capital	RIEL
Ceramic piece, perhaps	TILE
Choking cause	TENSION
Close	END
Comic Johnson	ARTE
Country __	ROAD
Court advantage	ADIN
Crafts partner	ARTS
Creme-filled snacks	OREOS
Cry hard	SOB
Cue	PROMPT
Dance in a pit	MOSH
Declaim	ORATE
Digs of twigs	NEST
Divide equally	BISECT
Dvorák's "Rusalka," e.g	OPERA
Editorial changes of heart	STETS
Excellent	TOPDRAWER
Extreme cruelty	SADISM
Fail to keep	LOSE
Fall back	LAG
Farm female	DAM
Fathers and sons	MEN
Five-time Oscar nominee Adams	AMY
Followers	SHEEP
Former	ONETIME
Fr. miss	MLLE
Get at	IMPLY
Give conditionally	LEND
Goes along	AGREES
Gossip components	TIDBITS
Highlands family	CLAN
Hit homers batting left- and right-handed?	CLOUTBOTHWAYS
Ice removal tool	SCRAPER
IRS form entries	SSNS
It makes all the stops	LOCAL
It may be detected by a psychic	AURA
It may be pumped or bumped	FIST
Japanese immigrant	ISSEI
Jet-black, in verse	EBON
Jungian inner self	ANIMA
K+, e.g	ION
Keats works	ODES
Key letter	PHI
Leaves open-mouthed	AWES
Letters on a Cardinal cap	STL
Like fine wine	VINTAGE
Like most pre-'60s recordings	MONO
Loathing	HATRED
London length	METRE
Magazine VIPs	EDS
Mail	POST
Most shameful nonstudio films?	LOWESTINDIES
Musical liability	TINEAR
Netizens, say	USERS
Newsworthy NYSE event	IPO
Not back, perhaps	OPPOSE
Old Opry network	TNN
Opinion piece by a sot?	LOOPEDCOLUMN
Oral-B product	FLOSS
Org. with towers	AAA
Outcasts	PARIAHS
Pennsylvania railroad town	ALTOONA
Pepperdine University site	MALIBU
Per se	INITSELF
Peter Lorre role	MRMOTO
Pool regimen	LAPS
Pranked, in a way	TPED
Psychic's claim	ESP
Quarterly arrivals	SEASONS
Queen of the 36-Down, familiarly	CLEO
Red Guard leader	MAO
Reject	NIX
Relax	CALM
Relaxed responses	AHS
Relocate	MOVE
Reward for a pet	TREAT
Rewards for kids	LOLLIPOPS
Ristorante offerings	PASTAS
Ruin Bond's martini	STIR
Saunters	MOSEYS
Savanna grazer	IMPALA
School severely damaged by Katrina	TULANE
Self-titled best-selling album of 2001	JLO
Sieben und eins	ACHT
Sierra Nevada resort	TAHOE
Singer Liz	PHAIR
Slim woodwind	OBOE
Slog	PLOD
Smallest European Union country	MALTA
Song about a guy with his jug of wine?	FORMEANDMYGALLO
Soup veggie	PEA
Start to foam?	STYRO
Surrounds en masse	MOBS
Swamp snapper	CROC
Symbol of love	REDROSE
Tango involving gates?	SLALOMDANCING
Tax pro, briefly	CPA
Tea or coffee	BREW
Tear into	ASSAIL
Test sites	LABS
The ANC's country	RSA
The Taj Mahal, e.g	TOMB
There's one next to Ventnor Ave. in Monopoly	UTIL
Throws out	EJECTS
Tilting pole	LANCE
Time for a weekly parade?	FLOATTUESDAY
Tourney ranking	SEED
Truman's Missouri birthplace	LAMAR
Typical Popstar! reader	TEEN
Unnamed competitor, in ads	BRANDX
USN clerk	YEO
View from Portland, Ore	MTHOOD
Vivaldi's styling business?	SALONANTONIO
Was humbled	ATECROW
Wayne's Oscar film	TRUEGRIT
Wellness gp	HMO
Withdraw	WEAN
Word of woe	ALAS
Work with ice, perhaps	SCULPT
__ Cranston, a.k.a. "The Shadow"	LAMONT
__ Reader	UTNE