L.A. Times Sunday - Dec 9 2007

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Clues Answers
"--- a crook": Nixon IAMNOT
"--- show time!" ITS
"Look!" in Lima MIRA
"Marty" director Delbert MANN
"Pow!" response OOF
"She's got a ticket --- ..." TORIDE
"UR 2 funny" equiv. LOL
"We've Only Just ---" BEGUN
'Net receipts? SPAM
--- -Coburg-Gotha SAXE
--- kick out of (enjoys) GETSA
--- polloi HOI
1974 hit "--- Tu" ERES
A bit smashed? ATOM
Airy area PATIO
Ambassador's asset TACT
Aren't imaginary EXIST
Aromatic neckwear LEIS
B.A. holder GRAD
Bagel sprinkle SESAME
Balcony feature HANDRAIL
Banquet official EMCEE
Be in need of a lift SAG
Be useful AVAIL
Beethoven's Third EROICA
Bindle bearer HOBO
Bling-y timepieces ROLEXES
Border town felines? CALEXICOCATS
Brazilian river XINGU
Brownies' org. GSA
Cap Ferrat cap BERET
Caroline, to Ted NIECE
Carter of "Gimme A Break" NELL
Casino boxcars SIXES
Check time PAYDAY
Cherubs' instruments HARPS
Civil rights activist Fannie Lou HAMER
Classic movie house name ROXY
Collegiate Bulldog YALIE
Composer Schifrin LALO
Covent Garden offerings OPERAS
Craze MANIA
Cutoff point END
Did lunch ATE
Dilapidated building wing? RAGGEDYANNEX
Discontinue CEASE
DJ's disks CDS
Dullsville job RUT
Ernie's pal BERT
Establishments producing vanilla? EXTRACTHOUSES
Fascinate ENTRANCE
Feet per second, e.g. RATE
Flat document LEASE
Forest fellers AXES
Fraction of a deg. SEC
Genetic letters RNA
George of old gangster flicks RAFT
Get back RECLAIM
Golf's Slammin' Sammy SNEAD
Guadalajara gold ORO
Haley, Trebek or Karras ALEX
Hammer with pliers, perhaps MISUSE
Head the bill STAR
Herbal brew TEA
High rollers? SEMIS
Ho-Minh middle CHI
Honeybunch SUGAR
House call? NAY
Hymn signoff AMEN
In addition BESIDES
Clues Answers
Inaugural balls, e.g. GALAS
Intoxicate BESOT
It's round all over SPHERE
Kennedy family, in a way? HYANNISEXPORT
Laid-back stock market? LOOSEEXCHANGE
Lang lead-in AULD
Least stringent LAXEST
Like cranberries TART
Like paragons IDEAL
Like some romance novels GOTHIC
List's last, often ETC
Low pitch BASS
Made safe SECURED
Makes fun of TWITS
Mariel's granddad ERNEST
Martha of the Vandellas REEVES
Maui neighbor LANAI
Most robust HALEST
Motel amenity POOL
Neptune's neighbor URANUS
Nile biter ASP
No-frills BASIC
Nook companion CRANNY
Old weapon, or new one MACE
One of nine sisters ERATO
One-liner that stings ZINGER
Overnighted parcel? EXPRESSBOX
Preface page numeral XII
Queue after Q RSTU
Race with flags SLALOM
Read closely PERUSE
Rearward AFT
Regal wrap ERMINE
Research money GRANT
Right out of the box NEW
Rights org. NAACP
Ringer for a filling station? TEXACOBELL
Rome's Appia or Veneto VIA
Sanctify BLESS
Satori-seeking sect ZEN
Saudi city MEDINA
Sci-fi knight JEDI
Senator Thurmond STROM
Settled ALIT
Shake up JOLT
Shopper's binge SPREE
Sibilant sound HISS
Singer noted for "Nessun Dorma" PAVAROTTI
Slip up ERR
Spanish shellfish dish PAELLA
Split hairs? PART
Spoke sheepishly? BAAED
Stunning successes COUPS
Stylish, Sixties style MOD
Surgeon's insertion STENT
Susan of "Echo Park" DEY
Sushi staple TUNA
Swank CLASSY
Turns sour ACIDIFIES
Uttered ORAL
Viewpoints SLANTS
Violin pin PEG
Waker-uppers ALARMS
Western Ohio town XENIA
What the letter O lacks SERIF
Where nails shouldn't be hammered TOES
Word after shopping or laundry LIST
World of high points? PLANETOFTHEAPEXES
You get it to go GAS
You might run for it SEAT