L.A. Times Daily - Nov 24 2007

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"Little Caesar" director Mervyn __ LEROY
"Wild Bill" Donovan's WWII org. OSS
'50s sitcom name DESI
1961 Winston Graham novel on which a Hitchcock film was based MARNIE
19th-century landscape painter George INNESS
Advantage for one gathering inside information? XRAYEYES
Advertising celeb at the 1939 World's Fair ELSIE
Agnus __: prayers preceding Holy Communion DEIS
Ancient Minoan writing yet to be deciphered LINEARA
Article in Der Spiegel EINE
Big wind BASSSAX
Blue XRATED
C&W star Lee __ Womack ANN
Censorship-fighting gp. ACLU
County on the English Channel SUSSEX
Dropped SLID
Drops CANS
Earth, to Kepler ERDE
Evil lead-in SEENO
Examines the syntax of PARSES
Features of some love letters XSANDOS
Fellows LADS
French Renaissance essayist MONTAIGNE
French wine region ALSACE
Gems with sunken designs INTAGLIOS
Harebrained ASININE
Helical pasta ROTINI
High points APICES
Hong Kong is part of it EASTASIA
Imported wheels? BRIE
Investigates anew REOPENS
Lacking SANS
Later counterpart of Lynda Bird TRICIA
Like flotsam SEABORNE
Lists AGENDAS
Clues Answers
Literally, it means "lover" AMATEUR
Losing label LITE
Madrid periods DIAS
Maker of Activia yogurt DANNON
Merit EARN
Michelle bested her for a 2002 skating bronze medal SASHA
Mint or licorice HERB
Name on Irish euros EIRE
Not right AMISS
Not the best of examples SADEXCUSE
Not-bet connection ONA
Ottoman official BEY
Parting words AUREVOIR
Powerful sports sobriquet THEBRONXBOMBERS
Recycling equipment BALERS
Sanctity HOLINESS
Satellite service since 2001 XMRADIO
Seuss story concerned with Truffula trees THELORAX
Shifting things GEARS
Shipment enclosure INVOICE
Short semester? SESS
Short stroke PUTT
St. Petersburg's river NEVA
Stockpiles HOARDS
Stranded, in a way ICEDIN
Take back, as territory REANNEX
Takes off LAMS
Their work is hanging around ARTISTS
Thrift shop activity RESALES
Tub contents BATH
Tune AIR
Withered SERE
__ Melodies, old cartoon series MERRIE
__ to: halted, nautically HOVE