L.A. Times Daily - Dec 21 2009

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Clues Answers
"Alice Adams" novelist BOOTHTARKINGTON
"Grand" ice cream brand EDYS
"Groovy!" NEATO
"No chance!" NEVER
"__ Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts": old song IVE
1492 ship NINA
1945 Pacific battle site OKINAWA
Archipelago part ISLET
Ballot marks XES
Bar in a grill SPIT
Cake-making aid MIX
Calla lily family ARUM
Canal country PANAMA
Change of a five ONES
Cheer for a matador OLE
Cop's quarry PERP
Crock-Pot meals STEWS
Crow's-nest cry LANDHO
Crumbly cheese FETA
Donald Trump catchphrase, and hint to the first two, three and four letters, respectively, of 17-, 26- and 46-Across YOUREFIRED
Donate GIVE
Economist Smith ADAM
Elton John tribute rededicated to Princess Diana CANDLEINTHEWIND
Engrave, in a way ETCH
Exorbitant interest USURY
Fine-tune TWEAK
French friend AMI
Got off course STRAYED
Grand __: auto race PRIX
Green Hornet's sidekick KATO
Half a Samoan city PAGO
Hasn't yet paid OWES
Hens do it LAY
Honest prez ABE
Hwy. mishap respondents EMTS
Insolvent banking giant, familiarly WAMU
Islamic clerics MULLAHS
Israeli war hero Moshe DAYAN
Johnny of "Public Enemies" DEPP
Clues Answers
Leg-covering skirt MAXI
Litigator's field LAW
Litigator's org. ABA
Magician's rod WAND
Main church section NAVE
Manhattan district SOHO
Meat with eggs HAM
Model train giant LIONEL
Mosque official IMAM
NFL three-pointers FGS
Not familiar with NEWTO
Not in port ASEA
Orange Place on a Monopoly board STJAMES
Pickle holder JAR
Publishing VIPs EDS
Repairs FIXES
Rock genre involving flamboyant garb GLAM
Rock star Stefani or actress Verdon GWEN
Sugar bowl cubes LUMPS
Tarzan raiser APE
Tennis score ADIN
Terre Haute sch. ISU
Tex-__ cuisine MEX
Texas shrine ALAMO
The South DIXIE
Three-time Masters champ Sam SNEAD
Ticklish muppet ELMO
Trawler's haul NETFUL
Turner autobiography ITINA
TV star, e.g. CELEB
Urge forward IMPEL
Util. product ELEC
Vesuvius output LAVA
War on terror foe AXISOFEVIL
XL squared MDC
Yardstick division INCH
Yorick's skull, e.g. PROP
__ Gras MARDI
__ pump: waste disposal device SUMP