L.A. Times Sunday - Dec 21 2008

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Clues Answers
"--- me while I kiss the sky" SCUSE
"... --- woodchuck ..." IFA
"10" tune BOLERO
"Chuck --- Love" ESIN
"Giant" jackpot GUSHHR
"Go fly ---!" AKITE
"Pagliacci" piece ARIA
"Queen of Salsa" Celia CRUZ
"Savvy?" SEE
"Star Wars" baddie Grand --- Tarkin MOFF
"Tarnation!" DANG
"That's the way ---" ITIS
"The Crying Game"'s Stephen REA
"The Guns of Navarone"s Scala GIA
A JFK bro EDW
A Musketeer ATHOS
Antique French coin ECU
Auditing org. IRS
Be the bartender POUR
Beach community detective? SANTAMONICAPI
Beauty's suitor BEAST
Because of the challenge ONADARE
Bering or Barents SEA
Betty Friedan's birthplace PEORIA
Bitty bouquet POSY
Bldg. units APTS
Blow a gasket ERUPT
Bobby followers PINS
Brian Boru's burial town ARMAGH
Brief lives BIOS
Brief writer LAWYER
Brosnan's TV sleuth STEELE
Brought to ruin UNDONE
Buenos --- AIRES
Check out the sites SURF
Chem. or bot. SCI
Clutter MESS
Computer whiz TECHIE
Corday stabbed him in the bath MARAT
Corrida kudos OLE
Customer ORDERER
Cuter than cute ADORABLE
Dance pupils' program RECITAL
Din and disk endings ETTES
Directs to Broadway? SENDSTOTHESHOWS
Dis and dat DESE
DMV doc. LIC
Egotistical doc's biopic? MYBRILLIANTCARE
Eric of "A Stranger Among Us" THAL
Exile of 1979 SHAH
Fed a line CUED
Feeble feline humor? KITTYCORN
Few and far follower BETWEEN
Filmed, per Variety LENSED
Finishes a cupcake ICES
Fizzle out DIE
Flimsy WEAK
Font feature SERIF
G.I. Joe co. HASBRO
Hagen of the stage UTA
Happened to BEFELL
Hatfield foes MCCOYS
Himalayan myth YETI
Honey maker BEH
I.M. the architect PEI
Ins. plan HMO
Inuit kin ALEUT
Israel's --- Vashem YAD
Jai end? ALAI
Kind of pattern or pilot TEST
LAPD part LOS
Clues Answers
Lawn improvement process AERATION
Learned ERUDITE
Lend --- AHAND
Like mad? IRATELY
Low-price intro ECONO
Lusitania sinker UBOAT
Majestic PALATIAL
Make --- for it ARUN
Milky Way maker MARS
Missive LETTER
Morse morsel DAH
Musical gift EAR
Negative particles ANIONS
Noggin PATE
Nude beaches? BUFFZONES
Old-hat STALE
Opening for three TRI
Pay to play ANTE
Perry's creator ERLE
Peter of Peter & Gordon ASHER
Picks out SELECTS
Pittypat and Polly AUNTS
Play alone SOLO
Poet "mad, bad and dangerous to know" BYRON
Postpaid encl. SASE
Pref. for 71A API
Prop up BRACE
Punctual ONTIME
Quips from fauna? ANIMALCRACKS
Raven haven NEST
Reply to "Which Damon plays Bourne?"? MATTOFCOURSE
Rishis' residences ASHRAMS
River through Rouen SEINE
River to Tarragona EBRO
Rough tools RASPS
Russia's Brezhnev LEONID
Safeguards PROTECTS
School of sarcasm? BARBCOLLEGE
See 114D BLANC
Semi fuel DIESEL
Short-lived series "--- Stone" ELI
Simplicity EASE
Singer DiFranco ANI
Singers Frankie/Cleo LAINES
Small dace REDFIN
Sodom escapee LOT
Spin out SKID
Springs for vacations SPAS
Staff symbol CLEF
Standard penny? LINCOLNCENT
States of hate ODIUMS
Strikes out DELETES
Sum sort LUMP
Support AID
Surg. sites ORS
Three, to Geretti TRE
Tightly packed pilchard SARDINE
Tomcat GIB
Torpid INERT
Trains overhead ELS
Traveler's aid MAP
TV's ear tugger BURNETT
Twain adventurer SAWYER
Uma, in "The Producers" ULLA
Unnatural lies? SYNTHETICFIBS
Valley neighboring San Fernando SIMI
Verily YEA
Wanted poster abbr. AKA
Whit MODICUM
Whole ENTIRE
With 71D, voice legend of cartoons MEL