L.A. Times Daily - Dec 12 2007

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Clues Answers
"Beau __" GESTE
"God's Little __" ACRE
"Legs" rock band ZZTOP
"The Last Picture Show" costar Bottoms TIMOTHY
1-Down is one ALE
1985 Sade hit SMOOTHOPERATOR
59-Across classics REOS
Arabian cargo boats DHOWS
Ashram ascetics YOGIS
Basketball's Erving, familiarly DRJ
Brilliance ECLAT
Brookies and steelheads TROUTS
Cantaloupe's family GOURD
Cath. or Luth. REL
Characters in the comic "Family Circus" TOTS
Cola choice DIET
Composer Schifrin LALO
Corp. brass CEOS
Coup finis DETAT
Cowboy's okay YEP
Crete's highest pt. MTIDA
Cutlass maker OLDS
E pluribus __ UNUM
Earthy pigment OCHER
Fair to middlin' SOSO
Far less cordial ICIER
Finished ALLDONE
Floor AMAZE
Flying '50s sci-fi creature RODAN
Friendly pre-meeting memo, say GENTLEREMINDER
Giant among Giants OTT
Goliath's undoing STONE
H.S. elite SRS
Harper's Bazaar illustrator ERTE
Head of Paris? TETE
Home on the range RANCH
Its rows, columns and diagonals all add up to the same number MAGICSQUARE
Know-it-all's comment TOLDYA
Korean War fighter MIG
Clues Answers
Lew of "Johnny Belinda" AYRES
Like many a jalopy JUNKY
Louts OAFS
Math text abbr. QED
Melted glace EAU
Melville South Seas novel OMOO
Mother's group DEN
Muezzin's tower MINARET
Nav. noncom CPO
No longer smashed SOBER
No-win situation DRAW
Old French coin ECU
Old Opry network TNN
One in Paris UNE
Outdoor dining spot TERRACE
Peaceful period PAX
Prototype detail, briefly SPEC
Pub order BASS
Retired professors EMERITI
Roker of "The Jeffersons" ROXIE
Sailor's maneuver TACK
Shoe support ARCH
Shots preceding kills, in volleyball SETS
Sing the blues MOPE
Smashed BOOZY
Something to figure out MYSTERY
Sports MD's specialty ORTH
Street vendor's salty hot snack SOFTPRETZEL
Tend to a houseplant, in a way REPOT
Time of your life PRIME
Traditional White House lawn roller EGG
Tyrolean trill YODEL
Up to, in ads TIL
Veiled words? IDO
Waist-length jackets ETONS
Whopper maker? LIAR
Winding road feature ESS
Word that can follow the first word of 17-, 34-, 43- and 64-Across TOUCH