L.A. Times Daily - Dec 21 2011

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"Citizen Kane" studio RKO
"Fighting" Big Ten team ILLINI
"Metamorphoses" poet OVID
"Not __ out of you!": "Shh!" APEEP
1/2 fl. oz TBSP
1960s African famine site BIAFRA
1988 Ryan/Quaid remake DOA
Article in Le Monde? UNE
At liberty FREE
Auctioned auto REPO
Available, as a job OPEN
Bad boy of 1970s-'80s tennis MCENROE
Barbra's "Funny Girl" co-star OMAR
Brazil discoverer Cabral PEDRO
Collapsed CAVEDIN
Collegiate climber IVY
Commonly bruised bone SHIN
Country with a five-sided flag NEPAL
Crisp cylindrical appetizer SPRINGROLL
Cyberzines EMAGS
Echoic nursery rhyme opening MARYMARY
Esophagus GULLET
Food in a shell EGG
Former Formula One car engine VTEN
Founding father? ADAM
Fury IRE
Give __: okay ANOD
Greasy spoon DIVE
Ho-hum BLAH
Hollywood's Laura or Bruce DERN
Homecoming tradition BONFIRE
Iditarod destination NOME
It might be vented SPLEEN
Jaunt that might get straw in your hair HAYRIDE
Junction point NODE
Keebler staff ELVES
Lacking INNEED
Leader HEAD
Clues Answers
Lethal snake COBRA
Love, in Livorno AMORE
Mont Blanc, par exemple ALPE
Nike rival AVIA
Not domestic, as a flight: Abbr INTL
Not worth __: valueless ASOU
Occurrence INCIDENT
Paw bottoms PADS
Philosopher Descartes RENE
Pie baker's shortening LARD
Pleasure craft CABINCRUISER
Powder for Junior TALC
Prepare for a road trip GASUP
Prepare for more printing REINK
Privy to INON
Proper nouns NAMES
Radar's favorite pop NEHI
Reverberate ECHO
Russian refusal NYET
Samoa's largest city APIA
Samuel Adams Summer __ ALE
Sarkozy's predecessor CHIRAC
Sch. near the Rio Grande UTEP
Season to be jolly YULE
Senate tie breakers, briefly VEEPS
Shakespearean father of three LEAR
Soothing succulent ALOE
State of excitement (generated by the starts of 17-, 27-, 38- and 46-Across?) FEVERPITCH
Strive VIE
Sudden show of energy BANG
Suds, so to speak BEER
Summer tube fare RERUN
Superlatively spooky EERIEST
Supplement ADDTO
Tango necessity DANCEPARTNER
Vaulted recess APSE
Welcome GREET
Words on a fictional cake EATME