L.A. Times Daily - Dec 21 2014

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Clues Answers
"... some kind of __?" ANUT
"My treat" ONME
"My Way" lyricist ANKA
"Sorry to hear that" SOSAD
"The Winner Takes It All" singers ABBA
"Use __ lose ..." ITOR
"What a long day!" IMBEAT
"You don't have to tell me" IKNOW
1969 Three Dog Night hit ONE
About ORSO
Aleutian island ATKA
Alley prowler TOM
Ambush during a "wrestling" match? THUMBATTACK
Angels' home ANAHEIM
Angling tool ROD
Anjou relative BOSC
Approval from above? HEAVENASSENT
As one ENMASSE
B-flat equivalent ASHARP
Badminton item RACQUET
Barely managed, with "out" EKED
Barrie baddie SMEE
Bart Simpson catchphrase AYCARAMBA
Behind bars CAGED
Bit of mischief ANTIC
Black Sea region ASIAMINOR
Bologna bone OSSO
Buck ending AROO
Budget prefix ECONO
Business letter abbr ATTN
Chimú conquerors INCAS
Club for a short par-3, perhaps NINEIRON
Crew member OAR
Cuban patriot José MARTI
Cunning SHREWD
Din CLAMOR
Dugong relative MANATEE
Eastern path TAO
Edit, in a way SHORTEN
Essen exclamation ACH
Expensive STEEP
Extra clothes? SPAREATTIRE
Fed. security TNOTE
Financial pros CPAS
First name in spydom MATA
Florida's __ Island AMELIA
Former Heathrow lander BOAC
Frau, across the Rhine: Abbr MME
Freeloader LEECH
Fromm's "The __ Loving" ARTOF
Gershwin's "Rialto Ripples," e.g RAG
Give credit for OWETO
Glitzy winter event, with "the" OSCARS
Go from coach to business, say UPGRADE
Gobi abode YURT
Grand venue OLEOPRY
Grayish-pink color OLDROSE
Gulf of Guinea capital ACCRA
Have in stock CARRY
Heathrow lander AEROPLANE
Hush-hush maritime org ONI
I problem? EGO
Indigenous NATIVE
Indulged CATEREDTO
Intense fear TERROR
Invite to one's penthouse, say ASKUP
Isabella, por ejemplo REINA
It may be saved SEAT
It may be spun, in more ways than one YARN
Javert's rank: Abbr INSP
Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr STE
Clues Answers
Kept in the loop, briefly CCED
Like some golf penalties TWOSTROKE
Like trees in the wind SWAYING
Like Vivaldi's "Spring" INE
Literature Nobelist Gide ANDRE
Low-lying area VALE
Melodious piece ARIOSO
Message medium VOICEMAIL
Metz milk LAIT
Mil. addresses APOS
Mil. rations MRES
Milieu for Sharks and Penguins RINK
Missouri NFL team CHIEFS
More like a lemon SOURER
More than just this THESE
More, on a score PIU
Mosque leader IMAM
Muddied ROILED
Narrow victory SQUEAKER
Nautical rope TYE
Neaten again, as a mustache RETRIM
Nevada city on I-80 ELKO
No-brainer course EASYA
Ocho menos dos SEIS
Old game show prop that contestants didn't want to hear GONG
Ominous letters after "See me" ASAP
Only matchmaker in town? LONEARRANGER
Ora pro __ NOBIS
Ostrich's cousin RHEA
Pea, e.g LEGUME
Pitched properly INTUNE
Preferences LIKES
Prefix with decimal HEXA
Primary MAIN
Protected whale SEI
Putting up ERECTING
Query indicating betrayal ETTU
Raise BREED
Rap sheet listing? BACKARRESTS
Reach ATTAIN
Rum __ Tugger: "Cats" character TUM
Russian city near the Ukraine border OREL
Saddle attachment STIRRUP
Scand. kingdom NOR
School official DEAN
Secretary of Education Duncan ARNE
Send with an email ATTACH
Shreveport-to-Little Rock dir NNE
Similar items SUCH
Slangy veto IXNAY
Sleeveless garment VEST
Spanish province or its capital LEON
Speech at a revival? TENTADDRESS
St. Louis tourist? ARCHARRIVAL
Sturgeon delicacy ROE
Synthetic silk RAYON
Tag announcement YOUREIT
Teletype machine area WIREROOM
That, in Tampico ESA
Transp. to the Hamptons LIRR
Try out TEST
Twosomes DYADS
Vanity CONCEIT
Variety of stars on a clear night? COSMICARRAY
View from Catania ETNA
Villainous "Austin Powers" alter ego MINIME
Wide-screen TV spot DEN
Will-wisp connector OTHE
Word with bird or call CAT
__ bar TAPAS
__-bitty ITTY