L.A. Times Daily - Feb 18 2006

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"Fast Food My Way" chef Jacques PEPIN
"Fear Street" series author STINE
"Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon" author AMADO
"If I Ruled the World" rapper NAS
"Lives of Girls and Women" author Alice MUNRO
"Nuts!" BAH
"Preserve me, __": Psalms OGOD
1924 novel that won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction APASSAGETOINDIA
1944 Nobel physicist Isidor RABI
1968 self-titled folk album ARLO
1985 Union Carbide acquisition STP
Balance sheet item ACCOUNTSPAYABLE
Barak of Israel EHUD
Be especially savory MELTINONESMOUTH
Beehive oven input COAL
Bladed tools HOES
Blood type, briefly ONEG
Breaking up DISASSIMILATING
Brief letters? BVD
Broad-based broadcasts, briefly APBS
Broadcast component AUDIO
Certain worshiper's risk HEATPROSTRATION
Choice VOTE
Cut (off) LOP
Deadly African biter MAMBA
Dean's deg. EDD
Deep-sea killer ORCA
Deface MAR
Eagle or hawk follower EYE
Ecuador's Cotopaxi et al. ACTIVEVOLCANOES
Eponymous British virologist Y.M. BARR
Euphonium relative TUBA
Fasten anew RETIE
François's friend AMI
Freshness SASS
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Go-__ KART
Great servers ACERS
Green prefix ECO
Healing __ ARTS
Herd orphan DOGIE
Knockout punch ROUNDHOUSERIGHT
Madrid's Puerta del __ SOL
Market bars, for short? UPC
Marxist article? DER
Ming of the NBA YAO
Morning surprise, often ALARM
Newsstand item: Abbr. ISS
Olympic skier Tommy MOE
Openly won't tolerate PROTESTSAGAINST
Outperforms BESTS
Perfume component ATTAR
Place to get clean REHAB
Pops on a diamond, usually OUTS
Pres. Clinton, for one BAPT
Pub request, with "the" USUAL
Pushes one's luck SKATESONTHINICE
Putsch COUP
Regarding ASTO
Some carpets SHAGS
Span. titles SRAS
Spike LACE
They may be kept on suspects TABS
Thin strip SLAT
Tousle MUSS
Traitor, e.g. ENEMY
Unimpressed BLASE
Unlike the OED ABR
Weapon featured in "Exodus" STEN
Woody's ex MIA
Would-be atty.'s hurdle LSAT