L.A. Times Daily - Dec 21 2008

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Clues Answers
"Ambition should be made of __ stuff": "Julius Caesar" STERNER
"How can I drive the babysitter nuts this time?" et al.? IMPTHOUGHTS
"Iliad" hero AJAX
"No kidding!" ISTHATSO
"Runaround Sue" singer DION
"The Elephant Celebes" artist ERNST
"This is __ a test" NOT
"This is __ a test" ONLY
"__ Rebel": 1962 hit HESA
20th century artist inspired by mythology ROTHKO
911 respondent EMT
A compass can help you make one ARC
Actress Ward SELA
Alternative energy options BIOFUELS
Alternative name for Pick Four in horse racing TWINDOUBLE
Author who wrote on Friday DEFOE
Bar order DRAFT
Barely managed MADEDO
Biblical suffix ETH
Big brass TUBAS
Big Foot cousin YETI
Bio subjects LIVES
Black figures NETPROFITS
Burned the midnight oil CRAMMED
Card, e.g. NLER
Collar NAB
Comic DeGeneres ELLEN
Cost-of-living stat. CPI
Course with unknowns ALGEBRA
Court calendar DOCKET
Cover thickly, as with onions SMOTHER
Coverage on Cousteau? UNDERWATERPRESS
Cry of adoration HOSANNA
Diary feature HASP
Diminutive TINY
Done ENDED
Draw out EDUCE
Dry lake bed PLAYA
East Lothian castle site DUNBAR
Endangered equine ONAGER
Enter, as data READIN
Enthusiastic AVID
Evel Knievel biopic? FEATFILMDOCUMENTARY
Exactly right DEADON
Fashions VOGUES
Feudal court of law? MEDIEVALTORTCHAMBER
Fishhook fastener SNELL
Folk actors MUMMERS
Fort Worth inst. TCU
Frist's predecessor LOTT
Fruit cut in linear shapes? GEOMETRICALFIGS
Gospel writer LUKE
Green target HOLE
Hail, with "down" FLAG
He edged TED in '48 HST
Heaters GATS
Horselike myth UNICORN
Host SLEW
Hypnotic state TRANCE
Inappropriate UNAPT
Intrigued with INTO
Iolani Palace site OAHU
Iranian dough RIALS
It can be a cue, or follow one LINE
It sailed from Iolcus ARGO
Joint agreement UNITY
Josh RIB
Layered treat OREO
Learning method ROTE
Levelheaded SENSIBLE
Clues Answers
Like Sartre's "No Exit" ONEACT
Like this ans. ACR
Literary monogram TSE
Low-budget pic, maybe INDIE
Magazine filler AMMO
Make a delivery? ORATE
Martial arts centers DOJOS
MD ÷ V CCC
Meadow LEA
Memorable words ADAGE
Money for some therapy sessions? VENTCAPITAL
Moose Jaw's prov. SASK
Moselle tributary SAAR
Moviegoer VIEWER
Nina of "The Ten Commandments" FOCH
Norse thunder god THOR
Northwest Passage explorer RAE
Not supporting ANTI
Oddball NUT
Off-the-wall OUTLANDISH
Old despot TSAR
Ominous DIRE
Part of a blind SLAT
PassГ© campus headgear BEANIE
Photo __ OPS
Porridge base OATS
Prefix with -aholic CHOC
Prior AGO
Prized PLUM
Provide money for FUND
Provide money for ENDOW
Pursue, in a way WOO
Put in chains ENSLAVE
Racket end? EER
Red dye EOSIN
Response to a compromise offer FAIRENOUGH
River of Flanders YSER
SASE contents, perhaps RSVP
Seat of Oklahoma's Garfield County ENID
Secret society of executives? CORPORATECULT
Secretly forms a team? ELOPES
Shiner SUN
Shrinks, so to speak ANALYSTS
Significant ones? OTHERS
Slippery swimmer EEL
Small fire starter? PYRO
So far ASYET
Sputnik reporter TASS
Staked shelter TENT
Stand up to FACE
Starbucks size VENTI
Stock: Abbr. MDSE
Surfer, at times WAXER
Take again, as vows RENEW
The last game there was played 9/28/2008 SHEA
They're usually assigned to bases UMPS
Throat clearer AHEM
Time on the throne REIGN
Tooth covering ENAMEL
Turnpike rumbler SEMI
Twice tres SEIS
Untidy sort SLOVEN
Utensil TOOL
Vandals HUNS
Weaken SAG
West Coast sch. that offers a "Physics of Surfing" seminar UCSD
When tripled, a 1970 war film TORA
Wilderness homes DENS
__ The Magazine (formerly Modern Maturity) AARP
__ voce SOTTO