L.A. Times Daily - Dec 13 2009

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Clues Answers
"Clear skies tonight," to an astronomer? ALLSTARFORECAST
"M*A*S*H" NCO CPL
"Spamalot" co-creator ERICIDLE
"Star Wars" gangster JABBA
"That's right," quaintly TIS
"The Kitchen God's Wife" novelist AMYTAN
"You eediot!" speaker of cartoons REN
"__, verily" YEA
101-Across's subordinates: Abbr. PFCS
12-part belt ZODIAC
1935 Nobelist Joliot-Curie IRENE
1980s timekeeping fad SWATCH
4 Seasons hit of 1963 MARLENA
72, often PAR
According to predictions in the show "Medium"? ASFORESEENONTV
Afore ERE
African virus EBOLA
Ageless pitcher Satchel PAIGE
Amends ATONEMENT
And PLUS
And so forth: Abbr. ETC
Anti-park service career advice? DONTBEAFORESTRANGER
Antifreeze brand ZEREX
Archie Bunker oath JEEZ
Arctic seabird SKUA
Artist who explored infinity in his work ESCHER
Bald eagle relative ERNE
Big name in showerheads MOEN
Bloated condition? EGOMANIA
Blue-green hue AQUA
Boondocks possessive OURN
Box CRATE
Briny greeting AHOY
Calculator display, briefly LCD
Capital of Pakistan's Punjab province LAHORE
Capital west of Boston, MA ALBANYNY
Cavs, on scoreboards CLE
Choose Mounds over Almond Joy? FOREGONUTS
Common office plant FERN
Convergence points FOCI
Curly-haired pantomimist HARPO
Dashed RAN
Dealer's offering QUOTE
Dieter's breakfast MELON
Docket item CASE
Drink with a Real Fact on each bottle cap SNAPPLE
Earth tones SIENNAS
Electrified particle ION
Ethan Frome's sickly wife ZEENA
Extremely unforgiving DRACONIAN
Falafel holder PITA
Family auto SEDAN
Farm team OXEN
Fashions MAKES
Fields of study AREAS
Fished using pots, perhaps EELED
Floor, in France ETAGE
Former Giants manager ALOU
Frankfurt's state HESSE
Get rolling BEGIN
Guns REVS
It might be given orally EXAM
It's up the coast from Napoli ROMA
Jackets facetiously called bum-freezers ETONS
Joltless joes? DECAFS
Kirkuk native IRAQI
Language that gave us "khaki" URDU
Lasso REATA
Last Olds model ALERO
Leb. neighbor ISR
Clues Answers
Like a road section with a flagger, maybe ONELANE
Like the elbow of Rodin's "The Thinker"? FOREVERBENDING
Major muddle SNAFU
Marsh of whodunits NGAIO
MBA subject ECON
Mercury or Saturn AUTO
Monarch's spouse CONSORT
Moo __ pork SHU
More than that THOSE
Napping ADOZE
Neologized COINED
Not at all NOHOW
Not gun-shy? ARMED
Not of the clergy LAICAL
Ocho minus uno SIETE
Omnia vincit __ AMOR
One paid to make hoops, briefly NBAER
Paste on AFFIX
Pave over RETAR
Perfumer Chanel COCO
Prefix with fauna AVI
Primary author of the Mayflower Compact BRADFORD
Procedure part STEP
Prone to prying NOSY
Rained out, e.g.: Abbr. PPD
Reading material for some? LIPS
Reeves of "Speed" KEANU
Refinement ELEGANCE
Refracting device PRISM
Refuel GASUP
Rent TORE
Reproductive cells OVA
Richie's dad, to the Fonz MRC
Santa __: offshore winds ANAS
Scary movie reaction SCREAM
Scornful look SNEER
Sen. McCain's alma mater USNA
Shackle ENSLAVE
Sharp rock used by early hominids? BLADEFORERUNNER
Silly Putty holder EGG
Singer Vannelli GINO
Skippy competitor JIF
Some women's mag photos BEEFCAKE
Soprano Mitchell LEONA
Source of some '60s trips LSD
Spanish pronoun ESTAS
Speak hoarsely RASP
Spice (up) JAZZ
Studied in detail POREDOVER
Swiss mathematician EULER
Teammate of LeBron SHAQ
Tender spots SORES
Tropical fruits MANGOS
Turkish coins LIRAS
Turn out ENDUP
UFO pilots, ostensibly ETS
Uneven? ODD
Upright ERECT
Vino __: dry wine SECO
Vocalist who gave his farewell performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin PAVAROTTI
Went two ways FORKED
West Coast wine valley NAPA
Wet floor? SEABED
What Ali did often at the Rumble in the Jungle? HITFOREMAN
When la luna rises, usually NOCHE
Wind, as a river SNAKE
Word with basin or flat TIDAL
__ fixe IDEE
__ paradoxes ZENOS
__ pro nobis ORA