L.A. Times Magazine - Dec 21 2008

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Clues Answers
"... nor ___ be" ALENDER
"... of Orient ___" ARE
"2001" villain, perhaps HAL
"F ___ Frank" ASIN
"Fame" star CARA
"Jeopardy!" selection, in Crosswordville OLIOFORATHOUSANDALEX
"Of all ___!" THELUCK
"This little piggy ___" HADNONE
"___ the Family" ALLIN
1669 erupter ETNA
8 on your dial TUV
A-line dress introducer DIOR
Actress Charlotte RAE
Actress Getty or Winwood ESTELLE
Actress Skye IONE
Aesop's point MORAL
Against ANTI
Al ___ DENTE
Allan who directed "Sands of Iwo Jima" and over 400 other Hollywood films DWAN
Apply, as Groucho's movie mustache PAINTON
Apt first name of European statesman Balbo ITALO
Asian holiday TET
Auth. of "Waging Peace," 1965 DDE
Bad joke's sound THUD
Ballet move PLIE
Banjo man Fleck BELA
Bat features FANGS
Break time? DAY
Bridge coup SLAM
Brief affair FLING
Bug for payment DUN
Café addition LAIT
Carnival barker's words, in Crosswordville HIEHIEHIESTEPRIGHTUP
Carrier letters USS
Chevalier's theme song MIMI
Christie mystery setting THENILE
Crooked ASKEW
Cuban patriot MARTI
Dawn goddess EOS
Diet shots, in Crosswordville EREANDAFTER
Director Kazan ELIA
Dirndl edge HEM
Earth First prefix ECO
Easing of tension THAW
EEG shapes SPIKES
Fatty ADIPOSE
Feels sympathy for PITIES
Fleet ARMADA
Fool's gold, really IRON
Francis et al. ARLENES
General, e.g. RANK
Glottis intro EPI
Go bad ROT
Golden State combiner CAL
Grants org. NEA
Hamlet VILLAGE
Highway sign GAS
Historic document, in Crosswordville THEEMANCIPATIONFIAT
Home invaders ANTS
Hoover's crew GMEN
Induce, in a way COAX
Innocent one NAIF
Intuitive remark, in Crosswordville ICANFEELITINMYOSSA
Jabbers YAPS
Jim Croce tune, "I ___" GOTANAME
Killed, in Judges SLEW
Landing site RUNWAY
Like a loner ASOCIAL
Like ulcers, nowadays CURABLE
Lo-cal LITE
Clues Answers
Lunch break, often HOUR
Major hits TRIPLES
Memory meas. MEG
Military diversion? USO
Mix flix OATERS
Most of a thousand? OOO
Music notes FAS
Navy ofcr. ENS
Newspaper section ARTS
Noted Republican, in Crosswordville EFTGINGRICH
Number of doctors? TEN
Nursery rhyme "ingredients," in Crosswordville FOURANDTWENTYMERLS
Of the eye OCULAR
Old copy MIMEO
Olympian Retton MARYLOU
Opp. of "on sale for" REG
Ostracized one OUTCAST
Out of work IDLE
Over again ANEW
Ph.D. treatise: abbr. DISS
Plenty (of) AWEALTH
Psych finish OTIC
Reality FACT
Record holders SLEEVES
Reform targets ILLS
Result END
Rustic parents PAS
S.A. nation ARG
Section of L.A.? LOS
Seldom RARELY
Singer Bartoli CECILIA
Site of MEN or WOMEN DOOR
Skater Yamaguchi KRISTI
Slope habitues SKIBUMS
Small band TRIO
Smooth SEAMLESS
Spanish aunts TIAS
Special treatment of a sort TLC
Start of a scale song DOE
Starting ASOF
State-sponsored gamble LOTTERY
Stimpy's pal REN
Streep won one in 1981 OBIE
Swallows INGESTS
The Corleones' patria SICILIA
To no ___ AVAIL
Top LID
Touch lightly, as water DAP
Tough wood ASH
Tropical sponge LOOFAH
Tube oldie, "The ___ Kid" CISCO
Tuscany, once ETRURIA
Undies fabric TRICOT
University in Garden City, N.Y. ADELPHI
Unyielding ADAMANT
Used-car type REPO
Verne traveler FOGG
Very unfamiliar ALIEN
Viewers' needs TVS
Virgin in "The Faerie Queene" UNA
Vishnu incarnation RAMA
Walk nervously PACE
Where Quantrill raided: abbr. KAN
Which way the wind blows, perh. SSE
Worn spot on Levis KNEE
Writer Lebowitz FRAN
Zhivago's love LARA
___ Bergere FOLIES
___ there (perseveres) HANGSIN
___-faire (tact) SAVOIR