L.A. Times Daily - Dec 24 2009

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Clues Answers
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" composer STYNE
"Royal Pains" network USA
"__ happens ..." ASIT
A 66-Across lacks one TAIL
Aleph follower BETH
Board for nails EMERY
Breathing: abbr. RESP
Brown sauces SOYS
Calendar divisions MONTHS
Cameo gemstone ONYX
Chocolate-flavored coffee MOCHA
Chop-chop APACE
City SSE of Las Cruces, NM ELPASOTX
Civil rights org. NAACP
Columnist Barrett RONA
Critter with no 18-Across MANX
Diet label word LITE
Dilemma JAM
DXXX ÷ X LIII
Farm female MARE
Focus opening AUTO
Fox hunt call HALLO
Good way for dreams to come TRUE
Ham site RYE
Hub near the Loop OHARE
Inscribed monument STELA
Joyce's motherland ERIN
Joyous shout WAHOO
Lack of vitality ANEMIA
Large chamber groups NONETS
LBJ or JFK MONOGRAM
Lets the fur fly? SHEDS
Loud noise DIN
Matter components ATOMS
Matter in court RES
Mexico neighbor BELIZE
Mideast language IRANI
Clues Answers
Misrepresent BELIE
More than usual EXTRA
Most of Ohio's northern boundary ERIE
Nureyev's negative NYET
Orders DECREES
Peel in a drink TWIST
Piano piece with "primo" and "secondo" parts, e.g. DUET
Plural feature, usually ESS
Postpone DEFER
Presidential pollster John ZOGBY
Prohibitive, perhaps STEEP
Request to an oper. EXT
River through Kazakhstan URAL
Roaring Camp chronicler HARTE
Sellout signs SROS
Sends a check with the order PREPAYS
Seuss turtle YERTLE
So yesterday PASSE
Some closet contents LINEN
Son of Seth ENOS
Soon-to-be adults TEENS
Sounds angry YELLS
Spare underwear THONG
Stand very close to CROWD
Substandard marks DEES
Sway TEETER
Swinger's cry WHEE
Thermometer part BULB
Thyroid problem GOITER
Too long a ride? STRETCHLIIMO
Too many relatives? EXTENDEDFAAMILY
Too much information? SPREADSHEEET
University Web site ending EDU
Useless NOHELP
Weaponless self-defense JUDO
Whichever ANY
Word spoken with a raised glass HERES