L.A. Times Sunday - Dec 18 2005

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Clues Answers
"--- free country!" ITSA
"Cinderella" meanie STEPSISTER
"Domani" singer Julius LAROSA
"La fiesta brava" sound OLE
"Poseidon Adventure" position UPSIDEDOWN
"Psycho" psycho BATES
"What's --- prologue" PASTIS
Abacus results SUMS
After cock and bull FIGHTS
Apportion ALLOT
Beet variety CHARD
Before this time AGO
Better ventilated AIRIER
Big name in sailboats HOBIE
Bit of "dinero" PESO
Bitty biter GNAT
Book with legends ATLAS
Bum's rush, for one OUSTER
Carpet calculation AREA
Castle with lots of steps IRENE
Clerics' council SYNOD
Cognac glasses SNIFTERS
Comes with BRINGS
Conductor Boulanger NADIA
Converges MEETS
Cows and sows SHES
Dresses down SCOLDS
Drops from above RAINS
Dubbed, perhaps KNIGHTED
Enjoy a banquet DINE
Fare for farrows SLOP
Fathered BEGOT
Fertility site OVULE
Feudal fellows LIEGES
First word of "Greensleeves" ALAS
Floorboard noise CREAK
Flow's backwash EBB
Frustrated one of myth TANTALUS
Gave autographs SIGNED
Get into gear? DRESS
Got crusty CAKED
Gumshoe SHAMUS
Hangs loosely DRAPES
Hankerings YENS
Hardly sesquipedalian TERSE
Hits with a joint? KNEES
Home body? UMP
Hormel product SPAM
Hostile force FOE
Human herbivore VEGAN
Impudent SASSY
Instruments for Scarlatti HARPSICHORDS
Ireland's former name EIRE
Is 6D TRAILS
It makes things jell AGAR
It may be catching TRAP
It's debatable ISSUE
It's picked in Hawaii UKE
Jettisoned DEEPSIXED
Joy in the morning on ABC BEHAR
Key in anew RETYPE
Kind of old? SAME
Ladder level RUNG
Last queen of Italy ELENA
Like 4/5 of queue SILENT
Like good pastrami LEAN
Like Mongolia ARID
Like some vegetable protein TEXTURED
Losing BEHIND
Luxurious PLUSH
Clues Answers
Make certain INSURE
Makes small potatoes RICES
Map in a map INSET
Mars, to Uranus ARES
Maze goal END
Meat case cut CHUCK
Mechanical man, for short BOT
Michigan city YPSILANTI
Mineral suffixes ITES
Morales of "NYPD Blue" ESAI
Morse morsels DASHES
Morticia's cousin ITT
Muckrakers' targets TRUSTS
Muse of dance TERPSICHORE
Nassau neighbor Grand --- Island BAHAMA
Naval initials USS
Nice friend? AMI
No longer with the company? ALONE
Of the body ANATOMIC
One of these THIS
Papers for eds. MSS
Party leaders? HOSTS
Perrins' partner LEA
Plate scraping ORT
Play the balalaika STRUM
Portable bed COT
Quantity AMOUNT
Rabin's predecessor MEIR
Radioactivity unit CURIE
Rummy dessert BABA
Santo Domingo domiciles CASAS
Sea swirls EDDIES
Short-tailed weasel STOAT
Showy tropical plant CANNA
SoCal observatory site PALOMAR
Solemn ceremony RITE
Some WWI-era artists DADAISTS
Sound systs. PAS
Square-rigged vessels FRIGATES
Standing by for AWAITING
Standing on the street? REP
Stock holders STIES
Stray calf DOGIE
Superlatively simpatico NICEST
Tabby's mate TOM
Tent-pitching places CAMPSITES
They're in the service SAUCERS
They're inspired BREATHS
They're looking for something SEEKERS
They're raised on farms BARNS
Time frame ERA
Tire gauge abbr. in our theme entries PSI
Tournament pass BYE
Trawlers' trailers NETS
Treats on sticks POPSICLES
Tribal sorcerer SHAMAN
Turkish title AGHA
Two-time bridge ATA
Until UPTO
Unused part REST
Up and about RISEN
Valuable violins AMATIS
Vassar's city POUGHKEEPSIE
Western treaty gp. OAS
What they're smoking in France TABAC
William Cullen Bryant poem THANATOPSIS
Window frame SASH
With little vermouth DRY
Without effort EASILY
Word said to a photographer CHEESE