L.A. Times Daily - Dec 8 2007

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"Easy to clean" ad catchphrase NOMESS
"Ring Cycle" goddess ERDA
"Your secret is safe with me" MYLIPSARESEALED
2006 role for Whitaker AMIN
Affirmative action letters EEO
Ancient OLDASMETHUSELAH
Attorney general before Thornburgh MEESE
Beaverlike? EAGER
Breach DISCONTINUATION
But, to Brutus SED
Canada goose relative NENE
Close, in an old quatrain ANEAR
Coin first minted under Louis IX ECU
Dick SHAMUS
Do more than mediate STEPIN
Doing the job ONIT
Elated SENT
Engaged RAPT
Essence PITH
Exec's order ASAP
Felt TACTILE
Fictional Calaveras County nickname DANL
Foot, e.g. UNIT
Free opening? SCOT
Genre of Escher's "Relativity" OPART
Gets persnickety TURNSUPONESNOSE
Hang DRAPE
Head start EDGE
High-tech unit BYTE
House dealer? POL
Investment with a 2- to 10-yr. maturity TNOTE
It has oil in it ITALIANDRESSING
Laugh half HEE
Let up ABATE
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Like some subs NUCLEAR
Literary collection OMNIBUS
Literary moniker ELIA
Little guys TADS
Long John Silver and pals TREASUREHUNTERS
Lots HEAPS
Makes hotter, in a way STOKES
Mate GUV
Mil. branch USN
Miss out? DEB
North Carolina city New __, which began as a Swiss settlement BERN
Not under ATLEAST
One of six NEWENGLANDSTATE
Ottoman rank AGA
Prettify GUSSYUP
Restless types? NATIVES
Run really well PURR
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, 2003-07 LUGAR
Senior moment, say LAPSE
Servant clan in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" sci-fi novels IGORS
Slim support STALK
Split __ PEA
Stereotypical doters NANAS
Sub __ ROSA
Succumb to gravity SAG
They're beside the point: Abbr. CTS
Thurber dreamer MITTY
Title auto in a Harold Robbins novel BETSY
Tough to endure HARSH
Well-balanced SANE
What long shots have ANOUTSIDECHANCE
What there oughta be ALAW
Word heard in the choosing process EENY
Yellow-furred comics dog ODIE