L.A. Times Daily - Dec 17 2008

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Clues Answers
"And (shh!) __ ..." KEEPITASECRET
"But __ ..." NOGIFTSPLEASE
"Gunsmoke" star ARNESS
"It's a party! Informal, so __ ..." COMEASYOUARE
"Me too!" SODOI
"Middlemarch" novelist ELIOT
"Off the Court" autobiographer ASHE
"Oh, don't forget, ___" BRINGYOUROWN
"You Send Me" singer COOKE
"__ my watch!" NOTON
'50s campaign button name IKE
Acoustics concern ECHO
Additive at Indy STP
After-shower item TALC
Alsatian Dadaist ARP
Ancestor FOREBEAR
Battle-ready ARMED
Bit of E! channel news ITEM
Biz network CNBC
Bolivian capital SUCRE
Breezy bye-byes TATAS
Canada natives CREES
Certain fingerprint LATENT
Comparable in size ASBIG
Discount store abbr. IRREG
Easter Island is part of it CHILE
Env. directive ATTN
Fab start? PRE
Fragrant compound ESTER
Geisha's sash OBI
Get beaten by LOSETO
Get mixed up (in) ENTANGLE
Golfer's choice WOOD
Gram opening HOLO
Greyhounds, e.g. BUSES
Hardly industrious LAZY
Has too good a time? CAROUSES
Clues Answers
Herbert of "Pink Panther" movies LOM
High-IQ group MENSA
Honshu port OSAKA
Hunter's gp. NRA
Iditarod entries SLEDS
Laundry brand ERA
Locale AREA
Maxim SAW
Minsk money RUBLE
Nana GRAN
Net attachment? FLIX
NFL scores FGS
Oil meas. BBL
Paul's "Exodus" role ARI
Paula Creamer's org. LPGA
Plato work, with "The" REPUBLIC
Promgoer's concern ZIT
Sanctified BLEST
Sassy one SNIP
Scale divs. LBS
Seasonal song CAROL
Second-largest W. Hemisphere country in area USA
Sign up ENROLL
Situation, so to speak PROBLEM
Slobbering comics dog ODIE
Spike TV, formerly TNN
Strategy for getting a six-pack? SITUPS
Suitable spots NICHES
Sweets HON
Tattletale RAT
They're picked by faultfinders NITS
TV show that had recurring "Killer Bees" sketches SNL
Two-master YAWL
Underwriter ASSUROR
Vivacity BRIO
Voted for, with "in" XED
You, in Paris TOI