L.A. Times Daily - Jan 8 2007

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Clues Answers
"According to" rules guy HOYLE
"Good one!" NICE
"La Bamba" star Morales ESAI
"Once __ a time ..." UPON
"Spider-Man" actor Willem DAFOE
"The __ Professor" NUTTY
Acknowledge with a head gesture NODTO
Adam's wife EVE
Arabian bigwig EMIR
Best imaginable IDEAL
Big Band or Disco period ERA
Blue-pencil EDIT
Burden sometimes "on you" ONUS
Celebrity-chasing photographers PAPARAZZI
Chaney of old films LON
Chocolate canine, for short LAB
Clean Air Act org. EPA
Come off as SEEM
Corn unit COB
Cultural values of a group ETHOS
Elicit conceit TURNONESHEAD
Ending with buck AROO
Extinct bird, or birdbrain DODO
Fairly large batteries CCELLS
Fly ball's path ARC
Fruit peel RIND
Gandhi's land INDIA
Garrison Keillor's Lake __ WOBEGON
Gillis of '50s-'60s TV DOBIE
Half of MCVIII DLIV
Hatcher of "Desperate Housewives" TERI
Heavenly hunter ORION
High-hatter SNOB
Holmes smoked them PIPES
In the style of, on menus ALA
In __: unmoved SITU
Jewish wedding dances HORAS
Kosher deli buy KNISH
Lacking spirit VAPID
Clues Answers
Letter-shaped girder IBEAM
Like disco dancers GOGO
Lode load ORE
Mag. unit ISS
Make (one's way) WEND
Maze entrance word START
Mineral found in much meat IRON
Move one way on a winding path ZIG
Move the other way on a winding path ZAG
Mozart's "__ kleine Nachtmusik" EINE
Nobelist Walesa LECH
Not as explicit VAGUER
Not feral TAME
Not street-savvy NAIVE
Omelet essential EGGS
Patella KNEECAP
Philosopher __-tzu LAO
Pitcher next to a basin EWER
Planted, as seed SOWED
Reagan and Howard RONS
Relief from the sun SHADE
Right-hand staff symbol, in piano music GCLEF
Scuba user DIVER
Senator Hatch of Utah ORRIN
Slot in a stable STALL
Small three-legged piano BABYGRAND
Some Korean cars KIAS
Talk on and on BENDONESEAR
Tel. book contents NOS
They cross herein WORDS
Totally rad AWESOME
Up and about AWAKE
Use a Singer SEW
Use coercion TWISTONESARM
Use teasing deception PULLONESLEG
Vacation island near Venezuela ARUBA
Water: Pref. HYDRO
What Jack Horner was eating PIE
Yanni listener, perhaps NEWAGER