Thursday, Aug.21 LAT & sNYT

Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
 
What Tweety said when he saw Sylvester's kitty | girlfriend on his arm (6)
["TAT, TOO"] = [TATTOO]
As a clue, not the most subtle, but once the pun occurred to me, it was too cute to resist.

Get crazy | when hot wind blows | by | bog | to westward, | but not at (2,7)
[GO BANANAS] = [SANta ANA] [+] [BOG] [reversed] [minus AT]
Probably should have used swamp or fen instead of bog, but the rest seemed hard enough it would have been gilding the lily.

Calvino's | odd muse (4)
[CaLvInO] [odd letters] = [CLIO]
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian writer.

Toasted | ambrosia | without Sir | Barack (5)
[anagram] [AMBrOsiA] [minus SIR] = [OBAMA]
Toasted is in the slang sense being defeated and broken up.

In | Iran, geckos | have | a place to graze (5)
[hidden] [iRAN GEckos] [=] [RANGE]

LAT

Seattle Times 7/10/14 sNYT

Cryptic clues from today's puzzles include charade, dissection, double definition, hidden, and, as always, some technique I'm not mentioning.

Three from LAT:

Helpful to find your way back from junk (4)

Talisman made Rosemary heartless (6)

Tesla, as electricity promoter, would put on a show (3,3)

Two from Seattle Times:

Electronic office interconnections have flair (4)

Control mechanism installed by pyramid builders (5)

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