L.A. Times Daily - Dec 15 2013

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Clues Answers
"Born Free" lioness ELSA
"CHiPs" co-star ESTRADA
"Exodus" novelist URIS
"Mazel __!" TOV
"Pride and Prejudice" novelist AUSTEN
"Sometimes you feel like __ …" ANUT
"You betcha!" RIGHTO
"__ boy!" ATTA
A smidgen ONEIOTA
Agitated state STEW
Airer of vintage films TCM
Appear eventually TURNUP
Appetite stimulants APERITIFS
Aquatic frolicker OTTER
Arnold's art POESY
Beginning piano student's first scale? CMAJORDISASTER
Belg. neighbor NETH
Belushi's "Animal House" role BLUTO
Big 12 wrestling powerhouse IOWASTATE
Big tips on cruises? LINERCNOTES
Binds WEDS
Black Friday event SALE
Brief regrets, maybe RSVPS
California's Big __ SUR
Campus center QUAD
Capital of Belarus MINSK
Cel mates? TOONS
Channel for channel surfers? SHORTATTENTIONCSPAN
Chicken __ KIEV
City on the Arno PISA
Civil offenses TORTS
Classic muscle cars GTOS
Clicker button REW
Code breakers' cries AHAS
Color in the original "Crayola 48" BURNTSIENNA
Delinquents of a sort, briefly AWOLS
Deliveries at Lincoln Center ARIAS
Director Craven WES
DJIA stock IBM
Doing mil. drudge work ONKP
Early Indo-European ARYAN
Err SLIP
Father of Shem, Ham and Japheth NOAH
Fillets DEBONES
Food problem at the front? CRATIONSOUT
Frazier's Fight of the Century foe ALI
Fútbol cheer OLE
George Foreman's five Georges SONS
Get shellacked, say LOSE
Give up CEDE
Grabbed SEIZED
Green sage of films YODA
Hamburger man HERR
He played Arnold on "Happy Days" PATMORITA
Historical periods ERAS
Holiday preceder EVE
Homer classic ILIAD
Hot time in Québec ETE
HR dept. concern RELO
Hugo title word NOTRE
Hunters' holidays EASTERS
In CHIC
It was admitted as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise MAINE
It's for the dogs ALPO
John Paul's Supreme Court successor ELENA
Knickknack TCHOTCHKE
Latin 101 verb ESSE
LAX listing ARR
Like Beethoven's Sonata Op. 109 INE
Like some anchors TELEGENIC
Locking horns ATIT
Long-distance letters ATT
Clues Answers
Make EARN
Manufactured locks WIGS
Many a jazz combo TRIO
Measure of brightness IQTEST
Memorable climber JILL
Metal refinery input ORES
Microbrew selection ALE
Miller __ LITE
Motto on an inspirational cat poster HANGINTHERE
Multiple millennia AEON
Muslim ascetics FAKIRS
NBAer until 2008 SONIC
NBC staple SNL
Nigerian people IBO
Nimble SPRY
Nobelist Root ELIHU
Nonspecific checkbox OTHER
Observe NOTICE
Oenophile's vacation destinations VINEYARDS
One good at stretching? LIAR
One of several H.S. subjects SCI
Order from on high FIAT
Org. that sticks to its guns NRA
Out-and-out UTTER
Owing SHY
Painfully out-of-tune note? RAZORCSHARP
Panther's color? PINK
Part of PRNDL PARK
Peace Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Pic to click ICON
Pigeon DUPE
Playa del __: L.A. coastal region REY
Ponder MUSE
Preps for a snack, as corn AIRPOPS
Promising whiz PHENOM
Queen __ lace ANNES
Quit CEASED
Record, in a way TAPE
Rough patch? ACNE
Sassy PERT
Shaker, so to speak DOER
Shockproof battery? PADDEDCCELL
Short deck hand? BOSUN
Sitcom lover of Chachi JOANIE
Skye of film IONE
Slangy "How's things?" SUP
Slick, perhaps WET
Sorority letters PHIS
Source of heat STOVE
Span. miss SRTA
Stars and Stripes squad TEAMUSA
Start of a balcony delivery OROMEO
Startled cries EEKS
Steel-toothed Bond villain JAWS
Stumblebums OAFS
Sugar bowl fans ANTS
Tech news site's nefarious plan? NOTHINGBUTCNET
The cooler STIR
They're noted for their neutrality SWISS
Things known to a select few ARCANA
Tribal emblems TOTEMS
Tubular carb source PENNE
Twosome in the news, or the news itself ITEM
URI's hoops conference ATEN
URL tag EDU
Via, informally THRU
Vulcan in demeanor STOIC
Went after SUED
Willing to listen OPEN
Without a buyer lined up ONSPEC
Writer with an award named for him OHENRY
__ Aires BUENOS