LAT Fri. 1/20 Jack McInturff

[magus]

From Third to Second

 
Singer’s yeshiva boy   YENTL [the writer, not vocalist]
Court team: Abbr.   ATTS [not basketball or tennis players]
Life time   STAGE [note two words]
Words spoken before the Senate  ETTU [but it was awhile ago]
Green span   LEA [not him]
Theme: B replacing C in the last word of a phrase
Adelaide altercation?   AUSTRALIANBRAWL
Can’t color the sky, say?   DOESNTHAVEABLUE
Beginning poet?   GREENBARD [Friday morning quarterbacking: “Jealous poet”]
Fight of the last quart of milk?   DAIRYBATTLE    [more Friday morning quarterbacking: “Farmers’ price war”]
Handle user {and theme}   CBER

Who knew?
EMIRATES Ajman & Fujairah
Samoa’s capital is APIA
YGOR was shot by Wolf Frankenstein, or that there was a Wolf Frankenstein [Son of…?]

  Alias user   SPY [shouldn't there be a "perhaps"?]

Overall, I liked this puzzle best so far in 2012.
RATING:    Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun