L.A. Times Daily - Dec 18 2008

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Clues Answers
"... edged tools [to] be kept from children and from fools": Dryden SECRETS
"... three men in __" ATUB
"I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" author Bombeck ERMA
"Jesus Christ Superstar" song HOSANNA
"Skedaddle!" SHOO
'80s-'90s Serbian import YUGO
2001 self-titled quadruple-platinum album JLO
Actor who played the Thing in "The Thing" ARNESS
Antiknock fluid ETHYL
Bad booze ROTGUT
Badlands Natl. Park site SDAK
Ballet pose ARABESQUE
Beats by a little EDGES
Belief TENET
Beneficial UTILE
Big do AFRO
Bring up the rear TRAIL
Cakesters brand OREO
Campground org. KOA
Cartoonist Browne DIK
Catalog biggie SEARS
Coffee hour aid URN
Comedian Margaret CHO
Day star OPRAH
Dermatologist's concern CYST
Dernier __ CRI
Diggs of "Rent" and "Cake" TAYE
Disturbed condition SNIT
Driving areas LANES
Drought-ending blowout? WETTINGPARTY
Duster at home, sometimes UMP
Exhausted RANRAGGED
Exposed, in a way OUTED
Firing AXING
Govt. research org. based in Bethesda NIH
Holds to be DEEMS
Interpretive dances HULAS
It has facets GEM
Joint woe GOUT
Clues Answers
Kansas yapper TOTO
Last Supper question ISITI
Lawyer's letters ESQ
Lesson giver PRO
Life's work of an old goat? BUTTINGCAREER
Lofty lair AERIE
Low bones TARSI
Medicinal plant SENNA
Missouri feeder OSAGE
Mouse slider USER
Movie beekeeper ULEE
Munich-based automaker BMW
New Mexico native ZUNI
Not fer AGIN
Old oath EGAD
Old possessive THY
Old ski lift contraption JBAR
Old stories LORE
On top AHEAD
Org. for GPs AMA
Outgrowth RESULT
Patron saint of chastity AGNES
Penthouse activity at Caesars Palace? LUXURYBETTING
Philip of "Daughter of Shanghai" AHN
Physique BOD
Powerful boss CZAR
Professional leader? SEMI
Proven TRUE
Reason for missing a gimme? HASTYPUTTING
SautГ©ing sound SSS
Seraglio chambers ODAS
Social group CASTE
Spar MAST
Speedy Amtrak train ACELA
Sutherland title role KLUTE
Take all of HOG
West Indies island TOBAGO
__ effort EFOR
__-Free: contact lens solution OPTI