L.A. Times Daily - Jun 8 2007

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Clues Answers
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" poet MOORE
"Oz" airer HBO
"Star-cross'd" lover of fiction ROMEO
1789 storm site BASTILLE
1980s Central American dictator NORIEGA
Actor Dullea KEIR
Ang Lee's birthplace TAIWAN
Auto protective accessory BRA
Bearskins, perhaps AREARUGS
Brief, for short: Abbr. SYN
Capital city whose name means "wooded" in French BOISE
Comes close NEARS
Creates for oneself, with "out" CARVES
Crux MEAT
Dada cofounder ARP
Deceived TAKEN
Detour, e.g.: Abbr. RTE
Dig like crazy EATUP
Dress ENROBE
Emmy-winning scientist NYE
First Israeli ambassador to the UN EBAN
First Russian Orthodox saint OLGA
Fish hawk OSPREY
Folk singer Kottke LEO
Fool, with "up" TRIP
General associated with chicken TSO
Gut course EASYA
Hamlet's mother GERTRUDE
Hardly laid-back TYPEA
Hindu queen RANI
Hip-hop's Sandra Denton, familiarly PEPA
It may be cold or hard CASH
Japanese food fish TAI
Jet INKY
JFK and others DEMS
Kind of heart valve MITRAL
Legal extremes? ELS
Letters next to a 6 MNO
Clues Answers
Luau root TARO
More than just interested NOSY
Movie role for Skippy ASTA
Mudbrick relative ADOBE
Nasty look SNEER
Neville Chamberlain, to his critics APPEASER
Nuns in Swedish cars? SAABSISTERS
Originated AROSE
Pac-10 powerhouse BRUINS
Palindromic constellation ARA
Philly Pops director Peter NERO
Prefix for -pathic IDIO
Pretend to be ACT
Pro __ RATA
Puts down LAYS
Quintessence PARAGON
Right or wrong, e.g.: Abbr. ADJ
Rub off ABRADE
Schlep LUG
Seventh heaven BLISS
Shore bird ERNE
Some Andrew Marvell works ODES
Some NBA endings OTS
Spaghetti pkg. unit ONELB
Straight HETERO
Swedish band's good time? ABBANICEDAY
Swedish monarch's idle talk? GUSTAVWIND
Testing place LAB
Tom, Dick and Harry, e.g. TRIO
Truman's Missouri birthplace LAMAR
Tuxedo, sometimes RENTAL
Unlikely 1970s headline for a Swedish tennis star? BJORNLOSER
What a Swedish actress does during a marathon? GARBOHYDRATES
Whence Belleek porcelain: Abbr. IRE
With hands on hips AKIMBO
Writer LeShan EDA
WWII arena ETO
__ es Salaam DAR