L.A. Times Daily - Dec 22 2014

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"Fiddle-faddle!" PSHAW
"Ghostbusters" goo SLIME
"Hell's Kitchen" contestant CHEF
"Not for me" NAH
"Scram, cat!" SCAT
"Then what happened?" AND
"Too rich for my blood" IMOUT
Address for a Southern belle MAAM
Arrive by corporate jet FLYIN
Atlanta-based news channel CNN
Balance sheet item ASSET
Belly GUT
Blessing BOON
Bounty alternative VIVA
Bowling over AWING
Caesar's "vidi" ISAW
California wine county NAPA
Cartoon frame CEL
Chip-in at a doc's office COPAY
Close-up lens MACRO
Competition setting ARENA
Cunning SLY
Dispense, with "out" METE
Dust Bowl refugee OKIE
DVD predecessor VCR
E pluribus __ UNUM
Ecstatic review RAVE
Eight, en español OCHO
Entertaining story YARN
Extra-play qtrs OTS
Fleur-de-__ LIS
Game often involving a cart GOLF
Himalayan, e.g ASIAN
Knife hyped on infomercials GINSU
Like across and down: Abbr OPP
Like __ of bricks ATON
Lion, and a hint to critters that begin 17-, 24-, 40- and 50-Across KINGOFTHEBEASTS
Magazine copy ISSUE
Major leagues, in baseball slang BIGS
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Mature filly MARE
Measuring stick RULER
Murmur lovingly COO
Not whispered ALOUD
Off-the-wall NUTTY
Org. with .edu addresses SCH
Parts of circles ARCS
Pharmaceutical product DRUG
Pierre's "Done!" FINI
Place for animal vaccinations PETCLINIC
Pond critters NEWTS
Preschool basics ABCS
President in a stovepipe hat, familiarly ABE
Publisher with an Antarctic bird logo PENGUINCLASSICS
Reverent poem ODE
River of Hades STYX
Sandstorm residue GRIT
Shade similar to coral SALMONPINK
Sigh of delight AAH
Sitarist Shankar RAVI
Spay or neuter DESEX
Stream bottom BED
Sunblock letters SPF
Supernova named for its apparent resemblance to a crustacean CRABNEBULA
Support gp. for troops USO
Suspect's need ALIBI
Tattooist's surface SKIN
Techie training site PCLAB
The "N" in TNT NITRO
Time for last-minute Christmas wrapping EVE
Trendsetting socialite ITGIRL
Vietnam War chopper COBRAHELICOPTER
Wal-Mart warehouse club SAMS
Walk leisurely AMBLE
Was in debt OWED
What singers sing in when they don't harmonize UNISON
Where to hear high C's OPERA
Words said with impatience ANYDAYNOW
__ mater ALMA