L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2009

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Clues Answers
"2001" computer HAL
"Discreet Music" composer Brian ENO
"Family Guy" mom LOIS
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" speaker HENRY
"Watermark" musician ENYA
"Watermelon Man" musician Santamaría MONGO
"Well played!" GOODGAME
"What the Butler Saw" playwright ORTON
"__ in a Manger" AWAY
1989 Bobby Brown hit EVERYLITTLESTEP
Adjusted opening? MAL
AIDS-fighting drug AZT
Before, in verse ERE
Big name in credit reports EQUIFAX
Bigfoot cousin YETI
Brit. monarch's title HRH
Caterer's container URN
Certain candidate's goal, briefly PHD
Charged particle ION
Civil War org. CSA
Classic shoe polish brand SHINOLA
Crimson, e.g. RED
Culture Club lead singer BOYGEORGE
Cunning trick WILE
Dawn follower SUNRISE
Delivered BORN
Der __: Adenauer epithet ALTE
Did nothing SAT
Dinar spenders IRAQIS
Disentangle UNKNOT
Dr. Mom's forte TLC
Fond du __, Wisconsin LAC
Game system played with gestures WII
Gas used in arc lamps XENON
Helicopter's predecessor, briefly GIRO
Hired TAKENON
Hit list TOPTEN
Icy look, maybe GLARE
Clues Answers
Lasting quite a while AGELONG
Learning method ROTE
Licensing prerequisite, often TEST
Many an auction piece ANTIQUE
Metaphorical search tool FINETOOTHEDCOMB
Migratory antelopes GNUS
Military action? SALUTE
Movie trailer? CREDITS
Multilevel marketing giant AMWAY
OED offering DEF
Page size with four leaves QUARTO
Political pamphlet TRACT
Prepare for printing TYPESET
Private eye, briefly TEC
Rapper Snoop __ DOGG
Redeemers SAVIORS
Response to a ques. ANS
Roman emperor in 69 A.D. OTHO
Second Amendment-supporting gp. THENRA
Serves a sentence DOESTIME
Singer Grant AMY
Some baseballers do it all game long CHEWGUM
Soreness? IRE
Staff figure, and a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 37-, 53- and 59-Across GCLEF
Stereotypical toy soldier ARMYMAN
Stir-fry additive MSG
Suffix with cyan- IDE
Thanksgiving decoration MAIZE
This, to Ricardo ESTO
Tirades RANTS
Unanimously ASONE
Victor's cry IWON
Went in ENTERED
What preschoolers learn THEABCS
Witch HAG
Words to a backstabber ETTU
__ judicata: decided case RES
__ voce: softly SOTTO