L.A. Times Daily - Dec 27 2006

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Clues Answers
"Get lost!" SCRAM
"Great taste since 1905" soft drink RCCOLA
"Milk's Favorite Cookie" OREO
"The Tempest" spirit ARIEL
Alpha male? FRATMEMBER
Balaam's rebuker ASS
Bandit feature, perhaps ONEARM
Bee complex SWARM
Beefeater and Bombay GINS
Bombeck and others ERMAS
Brillo rival SOS
Budget rentals CARS
Butcher shop MEATMARKET
Cheer HEARTEN
Cleo's downfall ASP
Colorful tropical fish TETRA
Covent Garden melody ARIA
Creole staple OKRA
Dates SEES
Delaying response LATER
Feta source GOATMILK
Five of them are hidden in this puzzle's longest answers ATMS
Fragrant compounds ESTERS
Gang land TURF
Genetic stuff RNA
Gloom mate DOOM
Golden rule preposition UNTO
H.G. Wells vivisectionist MOREAU
Hair-raising EERIE
Helps through a tough time, with "over" TIDES
Hindu retreat ASHRAM
Hockey immortal ORR
How some bonds are bought ATPAR
Indian nurses AMAHS
Italy's La __ SCALA
Japanese cartoon art ANIME
Jump to one's feet LEAPUP
Kind of exposure or frame TIME
Clues Answers
Krispy __ KREME
Land maps PLATS
Language of Lahore URDU
Like some grounders ONEHOP
Merlin Olsen was one LARAM
Objector ANTI
Opening for Romeo ALFA
Paddle SPANK
Permissive LENIENT
Peter or Nicholas TSAR
Pisa's river ARNO
Plead in court ARGUE
Popular mulch PEATMOSS
Put to work USE
Put to work EMPLOY
Ray who sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra EBERLE
Relaxing retreats SPAS
River barrier DAM
Rocky hill TOR
Saharan ARID
Sharp ACUTE
Significant period ERA
Simile words ASA
Singer Nelson EDDY
Singer Torme MEL
Six-sided state UTAH
Sock supports GARTERS
Sphere ORB
Sponsorship: Var. EGIS
Start of a sailing caveat REDSKYATMORNING
Start of a serial PARTI
Stocking stuffer? TOE
Tennyson's twilight EEN
Thereabout ORSO
Two-by-four defect WARP
Vestibule FOYER
Wife of Jacob LEAH
Witty comeback BONMOT