L.A. Times Daily - Dec 25 2008

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"A Confederacy of Dunces" author TOOLE
"A Delicate Balance" Pulitzer playwright ALBEE
"Como Ama una Mujer" album maker, familiarly JLO
"Later" IMOFF
"Rose Marie" operettist Rudolf FRIML
"The Wreck of the Mary __": 1959 film DEARE
"__ darned!" ILLBE
"__ me!" SEZ
1938 play with only chairs, tables and ladders as props OURTOWN
1995 N.L. Rookie of the Year NOMO
Additional OTHER
African honorific BWANA
Astronaut's protection GSUIT
Bozos OAFS
Bruins' home UCLA
Buddy FELLA
Chancy get-together TRYST
Cuddle, in a way SPOON
Cut into small pieces MINCE
Decorating Bible passage? HOLLYSCRIPTURE
Decorating durability concern? TINSELSTRENGTH
Decorating furry family? THETREEBEARS
Decorating headgear? CRECHEHELMET
Defaulter's risk, briefly REPO
EMTs' destinations ERS
Fall guy MARK
Fertility deity EROS
Fine cut SLIT
Fundamental BASAL
Hamburg's river ELBE
IM provider AOL
Isaac's eldest ESAU
Japanese mushroom ENOKI
Kosher ALLOWED
Legal scholar Guinier LANI
Lets out, as fishing line UNREELS
Like Wesleyan U. founders METH
Clues Answers
Looking up ROSY
Los Angeles-to-San Bernardino direction EAST
MacNicol of "Numb3rs" PETER
March opener? HUP
Math assignment, briefly PROB
Mendelssohn's Opus 20, e.g. OCTET
Mercutio's friend ROMEO
Minute Maid drinks HICS
Monterrey jack? PESOS
Morse code tones DAHS
Muslim journey HAJJ
Native Nebraskan OTOE
Needle RAZZ
Now, in Nicaragua AHORA
Oak, in a nutshell ACORN
Peck part AHAB
Qom native IRANI
Range hybrid BEEFALO
Rap at KNOCKON
Risk WAGER
Rulers of old TSARS
Set-up punch LEFTJAB
Slangy approval YEAH
Small logo, often ICON
Spanning: Abbr. ACR
Tasseled topper FEZ
The Taj Mahal, e.g. TOMB
Title apiarist in a 1997 film ULEE
Top banana MRBIG
Turner et al. TEDS
Utility abbr. ELEC
Vacation choice TRIP
Vaulted LEAPT
Vodka order, familiarly STOLI
__ dixit IPSE
__ king ALA
__ nous ENTRE