L.A. Times Daily - Dec 16 2007

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Clues Answers
"... bombs bursting __" INAIR
"... like it __!" ORNOT
"Abra was ready __ call'd her name": Prior EREI
"Alice" waitress FLO
"Let __!": "Go ahead!" ITRIP
"See if I care" SOSUEME
"Ten-four" speaker CBER
"__ to remember ..." ISEEM
1960s Buick Special engines VSIXES
1972 Derby winner __ Ridge RIVA
Actively sought INDEMAND
Après-__ SKI
Arab leader EMEER
Arid Israeli area NEGEV
Armed CARRYING
Back ENDORSE
Bagel alternatives BIALIES
Bardolino winemaker BOLLA
Beat tapper TOE
Before surgery, informally PREOP
Better reasoned SANER
Big mess FIASCO
Bookkeeper's charge LEDGER
Broadway's McArdle ANDREA
Bureau DRESSER
Californie, for one ETAT
Card or Met NLER
Channeler Edgar CAYCE
Character ROLE
Collar attachments LEASHES
Concord and merlot GRAPES
Country singer Fricke JANIE
Dangerous weather SLEET
Dessert option PIE
Destination ENDPOINT
Digital photo units PIXELS
Does, e.g. SHES
Down SAD
Dress sparkler SEQUIN
Driver's license burning a hole in your pocket? CORROSIVEID
Durante song title opening INKA
Easygoing AMIABLE
Elly May's "paw" JED
Equals PEERS
Failure DUD
Family members NIECES
Fed. food inspectors USDA
Fiend OGRE
Film that picks up where the prev. one leaves off SEQ
Firewood at a Maryland retreat? CAMPDAVIDCORD
Followed a doctor's order? AAHED
Food spearer TINE
Franklin's 1936 foe ALF
Fruit drink prefix CRAN
Gang of thieving dogs? GREYHOUNDRING
Godzilla's target TOKYO
Golden __ AGER
Handyman's figs. ESTS
Harriet Tubman "passenger" SLAVE
Hewlett-Packard products INKJETS
High time BOOM
Holdup man? ATLAS
Holy hollers HOSANNAS
Home of V. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" MOMA
Honkers in a gaggle GEESE
Hypothetical evolutionary link APEMAN
Inner circle CADRE
It might shock you EEL
Ivory Coast metropolis ABIDJAN
Jittery EDGY
Clues Answers
King of Naples, in "The Tempest" ALONSO
Land ALIGHT
Lavs WCS
Leaders with big scores MAESTROS
Like Lou Costello as Hamlet? MISCAST
Like most taxis METERED
Like royal succession LINEAL
Lucy's partner DESI
Lure BAIT
Miracle-__ GRO
Most fitting APTEST
Nasal passages NARES
Nix VETO
Not in force VOID
Notable Louis XIV feature? DRAMATICTRESSES
Novice NEWIE
Oily compound LIPID
Old Spice alternative AFTA
Old-time actress Shearer NORMA
Org. ASSOC
Part of a northern team SLEDDOG
Payment to get home, perhaps BUSFARE
Peak APEX
Precipitate CAUSE
Predatory fish GAR
Preludes to a kiss IDOS
Produced BRED
Promotional links TIEINS
Pull out, not always painlessly TWEEZE
Raleigh-to-Philly dir. NNE
Raptor's roost AERIE
Reaction to freshness SLAP
Recommend ADVISE
Red Rose PETE
Responds to 47-Down, maybe SEES
Richard of "The Real McCoys" CRENNA
Ring shout OLE
Salon acquisition TAN
Samoan, e.g. ISLANDER
SASE, e.g. ENCL
Scot's not NAE
Set for Natalie Gulbis IRONS
Smallest Belize monetary unit? FOREIGNCENT
Statue metal BRONZE
Strike XOUT
Strikes out DELES
Stuttgart sunrise direction OST
Subject to a draft ONEA
Svelte TRIM
Taylor of "Mystic Pizza" LILI
The Bible, say? CURATEREADING
They may be dark or pale ALES
They may be idle THREATS
Threw a bone to who knows what? FEDTHEUNKNOWN
Tugs at a line BITES
Type of monster GILA
Urged SPURRED
Visibly upset TEARY
Watches for cops, say ABETS
Westernmost Aleutian Island ATTU
Winged goddess NIKE
Without values AMORAL
Word on some diplomas MAGNA
Word suggesting options ELSE
Word with ice cream or cream SODA
Words from a bluffer, perhaps IRAISE
Writer Ferber et al. EDNAS
Yeshiva teacher REBBE
Zebra on a field REF
__ cava VENA