L.A. Times Daily - Jan 18 2006

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"8 Simple Rules" star John RITTER
"Cast Away" star TOMHANKS
"Cuchi-cuchi" entertainer CHARO
"Let's go someplace cooler!" ITSHOT
"The NewsHour" anchorman LEHRER
"We __ the Champions" ARE
"__ Fideles" ADESTE
A writer may work on it SPEC
Arabian ruler EMIR
Beatniks? COPS
Big account SAGA
Breakfast side HAM
Check number DATE
Chilean literature Nobelist Pablo NERUDA
Chirac's state ETAT
Color subtlety HUE
Controversial online music service NAPSTER
Dept. overseer MGR
Double up on (one's bet) LETRIDE
Easiest kind of test? OPENBOOK
Exams for srs. SATS
Felix Unger's pet peeve MESS
For each PER
French heads TETES
French verb ETRE
Game with 32 cards SKAT
Generous types SHARERS
Get everything right on ACE
Get really steamed SEERED
Glitterati STARS
Grasps GETS
Hits hard POUNDS
Indonesian island Sulawesi, formerly CELEBES
Industrialist Cyrus EATON
Inebriates SOTS
Jeter of the Yankees DEREK
Clues Answers
Kesey and Griffey KENS
Leb. neighbor ISR
Lofty nest AERIE
Lose ground, literally ERODE
Many millennia EONS
Maple tree yield SAP
Mightily fortified ARMEDTOTHETEETH
Nair rival NEET
Norm: Abbr. STD
Old flood insurance? ARK
Orr score GOAL
Picked a felon from a lineup FINGEREDTHEPERP
Podge preceder HODGE
Puppet CATSPAW
Rejected contemptuously, with "at" THUMBEDONESNOSE
Returned term assignments, say HANDEDOUTPAPERS
Roderick R. Paige's Cabinet dept. EDUC
Romano cheese source EWE
Sandwich order REUBEN
Sault __ Marie STE
See 57-Down USTED
See 57-Down ESTA
Simpson trial judge ITO
Sit in on, as a class AUDIT
Spoil, with "on" DOTE
Stead LIEU
Strong beliefs FAITHS
Stuffed oneself ATEALOT
Technique-building pieces ETUDES
Tiny insect NIT
Toward dawn EAST
Tribe related to the Iowa and Missouri OTOE
Troop's camping place ETAPE
Veggie in a pod PEA
Wears (away) EATS
Whom some habitually blame OTHERS