L.A. Times Daily - Dec 18 2009

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Clues Answers
"At Seventeen" singer Janis IAN
"Evita" subject PERON
"How dare they!" THENERVE
"It's nobody __ business!" ELSES
"What a looong day!" IMBEAT
"What's the __?" DIF
"__ a stinker?": Bugs Bunny line AINTI
"__ my case" IREST
"__-hoo!" YOO
1970s fugitive financier Robert VESCO
Absorb a loss, slangily EATIT
Alcohol-based compound used in cosmetics ACETAL
Arab, e.g. SEMITE
Armed guard? SENTRYPACKING
At risk of being lost in a hard drive failure UNSAVED
Battle of Britain gp. RAF
Battlefield success strategy? INFANTRYFORMULA
Big name in calculators CASIO
Borders ABUTS
Brave GUTSY
Canine command STAY
Catalogued work OPUS
Church pool table features? VESTRYPOCKETS
Composer Bruckner ANTON
Covert fed. group CIA
Coward SISSY
Cross inscription INRI
Customs of dessert chefs? PASTRYPRACTICES
Dada, to many of its critics NONART
Dormancy INACTION
Downside of grits and chicken-fried steak? COUNTRYCALORIES
Fancy scarf ASCOT
From 1988 to 1999, a record 856 consecutive games were played in Dodger Stadium without one RAINOUT
In an apt way FITLY
Clues Answers
Its county seat is Grand Junction, Colorado MESA
Law and order gps. PDS
Like a smooth getaway CLEAN
Like premium hockey seats RINKSIDE
Like unwritten notes MENTAL
Lumberyard tools RIPSAWS
Medical probes STYLETS
Mich. neighbor ONT
Minute Maid Park baseballer, locally STRO
News TIDINGS
Numerical prefix TRI
Offer one's two cents OPINE
Old Atl. crosser SST
Oro y __: Montana's motto PLATA
Polyester film trademark MYLAR
Pre-A.D. BCE
Slightly AWEEBIT
So far YET
Some Caltech grads EES
Sound after a sprint PANT
Source of heir cuts? WILL
State capital near the Big Belt Mountains HELENA
Steakhouse order STRIP
Store proprietor on "The Simpsons" APU
Suffix with law YER
Swaggering gait STRUT
Taking advantage of USING
Tapered cigar PERFECTO
Target of WWII's Operation Detachment, familiarly IWO
That much or more ATLEAST
Time co-founder LUCE
Use, as china EATON
Yes-men TOADIES
__ Lumpur, Malaysia KUALA