L.A. Times Daily - Dec 30 2007

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Clues Answers
"Hooked on Swing" bandleader Larry ELGART
"Oh, of course" ISEE
"Superman" actor REEVE
"Symphony of a Thousand" composer MAHLER
"The Ten Commandments" role RAMESES
"Woe __!" ISME
"__ 'nuff!" SHO
1844 Verdi opera ERNANI
1996 grammar best-seller "Woe __" ISI
20th-cen. superpower USSR
Acapulco approval OLE
Actor Gulager CLU
Actress Sonia BRAGA
After "put," obviously outclassed TOSHAME
After, to Antoine APRES
Aiming aid SCOPE
Allen who played a toolman TIM
American in Paris, perhaps EXPAT
Anchor position ATRIP
Angler's needs, maybe OARS
Archduke Ferdinand's land: Abbr. AUST
Arizona product ICEDTEA
Author Bagnold et al. ENIDS
Available men, maybe STAGS
Bee's charge? OPIE
Before now AGO
Bette's "Divine" nickname MISSM
Big name in animation HANNA
Bindle bearer HOBO
Black Mass idol SATAN
Blends MERGES
Boardwalk attachment PIER
Boris contemporary BELA
Bourbon and others STREETS
British wheels MOTORCAR
Burdon of the Animals ERIC
Buttocks muscles GLUTEI
Caulking materials SEALANTS
CCV ÷ V XLI
Certain Ivy Leaguer ELI
Checking acct. datum SSN
Chelmsford's county ESSEX
Chemist's suffix ANE
Chinese weight TAEL
Communication syst. ASL
Complaints to the chef? REPASTGRIEVANCES
Cracker with a hole in the middle CHEEZIT
Cross words SPAT
Cube maker Rubik ERNO
Daniel Webster, for one ORATOR
Dashes DARTS
Digital readouts, briefly LCDS
English writer Elinor GLYN
ER arrival EMT
Faction SECT
Fair-hiring letters EOE
Family member NIECE
Fast-paced SLAMBANG
Feel put out during travel preparations? RESENTPACKING
Food ALIMENT
Forest growth that keeps coming back? REPEATMOSS
Former company name of the Pilot manufacturer PALMONE
Get rid of an old golf set? RETIREIRONS
Go on and on about EXALT
Goat with recurved horns IBEX
Half a tuba sound PAH
Hardly nurses CHUGS
High-minded ETHICAL
Honshu city KYOTO
HRE part: Abbr. EMP
Clues Answers
Humanities degs. BAS
In the manner of ALA
Incompetent leaders' domains? REALMSFORTHEPOOR
Instep crossers TSTRAPS
Islamic royal family member SULTANA
It absorbed data from Funk and Wagnalls, among others ENCARTA
Jazzy Jones ETTA
Judge played by Stallone DREDD
Key with two sharps: Abbr. DMAJ
Knife originally called Eversharp GINSU
Last word before a duel? GARDE
Levels in the ring? KOS
Like some facial tissue THREEPLY
Like some underwear THERMAL
Miami-to-Orlando dir. NNW
Military forte? RECONGAME
Mine bonanzas LODES
Model kit items DECALS
Mom and Pop KIN
Most liable APTEST
Move, in brokerese RELO
Nobelist Walesa LECH
Nouveau __ RICHE
Old 2600 and 5200 game systems ATARIS
On Ventura Blvd., say INLA
One of Santa's team ELF
Opinion column site OPED
Ostrichlike birds RHEAS
Pact ACCORD
Panama border? BRIM
Parlor trick? MASSE
Place to store picture puzzles? REBUSDEPOT
Port west of Paris BREST
Prefix with skeleton EXO
Pro __ TEM
Puppeteer Tony SARG
Region AREA
Rowena's lover IVANHOE
School lab subjects AMOEBAS
She bested Steffi in the 1994 U.S. Open ARANTXA
Shorthand for the contrite? REMORSECODE
Shower units METEORS
Smoke, for short CIG
Soft diet PAP
Some teachers' degs. MSEDS
Source of inside info? CATSCAN
Spanish muralist SERT
Spun WOVE
Stamp finish? EDE
Stat for infielders DPS
Strain TAX
Sun or Rocket, briefly NBAER
The ponderosa pine is its st. tree MONT
The whole enchilada ALL
Threw tomatoes, verbally BOOED
Through VIA
Tiny Yokum's brother ABNER
Track borders RAILS
Tropical fruit GUAVA
Turning meas. RPS
TV bride of October 1996 LOISLANE
TV show with five spin-offs STARTREK
Unprocessed orders BACKLOG
Unsettle JAR
Used towels and such at the spa? RESORTLAUNDRY
Walk heavily CLOMP
Woody Woodpecker's creator LANTZ
__ avis RARA
__ Domingo SANTO
__ from the doctor ANOTE