L.A. Times Daily - Jan 3 2008

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Clues Answers
"Aladdin" hero ALI
"How __ Your Mother": CBS sitcom IMET
"La Magique" timepieces OMEGAS
"Phooey!" NERTS
"The Balcony" playwright GENET
1960s-'70s crime drama THEFBI
A midi covers it KNEE
According to Oscar Levant, it's "the lowest form of humor--when you don't think of it first" PUN
Advantages PROS
Baby birds? STORKS
Book between Ezr. and Esth. NEH
Breezed through ACED
Caltech grad ENGR
Cards, on scoreboards STL
Certain New Orleans native CREOLE
Chip quality SALTINESS
Cloche or toque HAT
Deplete USEUP
Ear part CANAL
Faultfinder NAG
First National Leaguer to hit 500 homers OTT
Former Bush strategist ROVE
Frighten ALARM
Frigid ICY
Garden product word GRO
Get revenge RETALIATE
Grade of black tea PEKOE
Head for the hills FLEE
Hereditary Asian title RAJAH
Isinglass MICA
Jack that matches the starter card suit, in cribbage NOB
Jazz style BOP
Joint problem GOUT
Keogh cousin IRA
Legend creator ACURA
Like most exhibition games PRESEASON
Lute sound? LONGU
Make a home NEST
Mark quickly JOT
Clues Answers
Members of a force REPS
Middle of a Napoleonic palindrome IEREI
Nancy Drew's boyfriend NED
On the outs ESTRANGED
Others REST
Paradise EDEN
Patriotic chant USAUSA
Pity-evoking quality PATHOS
Place for a ruler THRONE
Pop singer Vannelli GINO
Protective car accessory BRA
Quebec city or its peninsula GASPE
Restless UNEASY
San Francisco suburb LIVERMORE
Science fiction staples ALIENS
Shot glass PONY
Silly sorts GEESE
Speed: Abbr. VEL
Spoken ORAL
Staples Center, e.g. ARENA
Stitched border HEM
Stone Age human CROMAGNON
Storm RAGE
Suffix with Capri OTE
Sun. address SER
Surrey racing town EPSOM
Symbol of virtue HALO
Tamper with DOCTOR
TV spouse nГ©e Baines EDITHBUNKER
TV spouse nГ©e Bouvier MARGESIMPSON
TV spouse nГ©e Bronson JUNECLEAVER
TV spouse nГ©e Stemple JAMIEBUCHMAN
Type of money PIN
URL ending EDU
Verb ending? OSE
Vinyl platters LPS
Vows of a sort IDOS
Words following Casca's "Speak, hands, for me!" ETTU
Writer Rand AYN