L.A. Times Daily - Jan 1 2006

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Clues Answers
"'I __ you liked your drink,' sez Gunga Din" OPE
"... __ he drove out of sight" ERE
"Be well" TAKECARE
"Giant" star MINEO
"I've got it now!" AHA
"My Fair Lady" film director George CUKOR
"Scientific American Frontiers" host ALDA
"Silas Marner" foundling EPPIE
"The __ near!" ENDIS
"Wuthering Heights" setting MOORS
"__ the night ..." TWAS
1979 Pa. newsmaker TMI
1988 scandal film EIGHTMENOUT
2003 Derby winner Funny __ CIDE
Abode that's abuzz APIARY
Accept the situation FACEIT
Actor Reeves KEANU
Antipoverty agcy. OEO
Asian capital YEN
Atlas blow-up INSET
Author Zola EMILE
Avril follower MAI
Baby's bawl WAH
Bank takebacks REPOS
Bikes TWOWHEELERS
Bitter ACRID
Bombard PELT
Book subtitled "Across the Pacific By Raft" KONTIKI
Bounded LOPED
Casual tops TEES
Cat's blessing, so they say NINELIVES
Cellulose fiber ARNEL
Chip enhancement ONIONDIP
Chosen number? FEW
Cinnabar, for one ORE
City on the Aire LEEDS
Clapton classic LAYLA
Computer media DISKS
Countdown concluder HAPPYNEWYEAR
Covert gp. CIA
Cubs' homes DENS
Dame's intro? NOTRE
Dancer Miller ANN
Do away with EFFACE
Drive out EXILE
Drop in VISIT
Dry riverbed WADI
Egypt's Nasser GAMAL
Elder, for one TREE
Entrance WAYIN
Exemplar of might OAK
Feature TRAIT
Fictional miners SEVENDWARFS
Fills to the gills SATES
First Hebrew letter: Var. ALEF
Fling CAST
Fluorescent bulb filler ARGON
Fun followers? FESTS
Garment cut ALINE
Geog. stat ELEV
Get a move on HIE
Get bug-eyed over MARVELAT
Give a ticket CITE
Ham, e.g. MEAT
Hero's reception THREECHEERS
Hoopster Thurmond NATE
Hosp. trauma centers ERS
Indian honorific SAHIB
Insults OFFENDS
Iroquoian confederacy FIVENATIONS
It can help you make your bed HOE
It's in for a while FAD
Clues Answers
Jr. and sr. YRS
Latticework piece LATH
Lawyer's case ATTACHE
LBJ beagle HER
Leb. neighbor SYR
Letterhead abbr. TEL
Lines for notes STAFF
Loan letters APR
Logical prefix SOCIO
Lowbrow, in a way KITSCHY
Made a crossover move CASTLED
Many an agent TENPERCENTER
Memorable opening FOURSCORE
Nab PINCH
Natural gas component ETHANE
Navy brass ADMIRALS
Navy NCO CPO
Nocturnal hunter OWL
Non-PC suffix ENNE
Not exactly a gimme, in golf SIXFOOTER
NYC sports venue MSG
Office no. EXT
Old town newscasters CRIERS
On the line ATSTAKE
Onassis nickname ARI
Oxford tie SHOELACE
Paris-to-Amsterdam dir. NNE
Part of the Musketeers' credo ONEFORALL
Pass on SKIP
Physicals EXAMS
Pick up SENSE
Pie-in-the-sky types DREAMERS
Piece from the past RELIC
Piles ATON
Plant, perhaps SPY
Profitable produce CASHCROP
Proud birds' mates PEAHENS
Psalms interjection SELAH
Puffy pastry POPOVER
Pure CHASTE
Quaint plaint ALAS
Reflection IMAGE
Rolled fare OATS
Salad topper OIL
Sci-fi writer Frederik POHL
Sea World performer ORCA
Season opener? PRE
See 99-Down WALDO
Senior Saarinen ELIEL
Soccer stadium shout OLEOLE
Some newspaper essays OPEDS
Something new AFIRST
Spin-off group SECT
Sportscaster Merlin OLSEN
Staggered REELED
Stir up STOKE
Strong acid, to a chemist HCL
Strong coffee MUD
Super service ACE
Tasteless UNSEEMLY
They may occur between generations GAPS
UN chief Annan KOFI
Unassisted numbers SOLI
Up to, informally TIL
Vintner's prefix OENO
Weekly bottom line NETPAY
Weird Al Yankovic song parody EATIT
Wild guess STAB
With 102-Down, Martin Handford kids' book series WHERES
Zigs or zags VEERS
__ Alley TINPAN
__ fatty acid TRANS