L.A. Times Daily - Dec 31 2008

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Clues Answers
"The Stranger" novelist CAMUS
A mirage may look like one OASIS
Activity on a mat YOGA
Amer. WWII ally USSR
Annual world championship competition held in Akron SOAPBOXDERBY
Bad __: German resort EMS
Big snooze DRAG
Blue Bonnet, e.g. OLEO
Board game with Success Formulas CAREERS
Book jacket bits BLURBS
Boots again RESTARTS
Bricklayer in a kid's story PIG
Canopy supports BEDPOSTS
Casserole legumes SNAPBEANS
Cast leader? TELE
Cell "messenger" RNA
Cheap shots BARBS
Cleaver MEATAX
Computer nerd, e.g. USER
Cooking fuel STERNO
Course of action: Abbr. PROC
Cries of discovery AHAS
Cuzco's country PERU
Decide not to attend SKIP
Drunk tank regular SOT
Emer. broadcasts (and this puzzle's hidden theme) APBS
Fabulous storyteller AESOP
Fever cause? CABIN
Fightin' AGIN
Folk singer Phil OCHS
Game with at most one mate CHESS
Gush SPEW
Hawaii County seat HILO
Hawaii's "Gathering Place" OAHU
Heavenly color? PEARLY
Island east of Java BALI
Jolly Roger hand SMEE
Keep from flowing DAMUP
Clues Answers
Mongolian desert GOBI
Mythological vengeance deities FURIES
Nile reptile ASP
Not mad SANE
On the double, initially ASAP
One in an exclusive network OLDBOY
Organize, with "up" TIDY
Post-op program REHAB
Produce producers FARMS
Quite a lot OCEANS
Rodent yielding the fur nutria COYPU
Said "I'm done," microwave-style BEEPED
Schmooze YAK
Schmooze GAB
School division TERM
Schumann's wife CLARA
Scotch partner SODA
Sculls OARS
Sea eagles ERNS
Sine or cosine RATIO
Site of many umbrellas BEACH
Sitting rooms PARLORS
Spellbound RAPT
Store STOW
Subject of the how-to book "Keeping Memories Alive" SCRAPBOOKING
Sugar shack vessel SAPBUCKET
Surf sounds ROARS
Tarzan player Ron ELY
Theoretical "big" event BANG
Time line units ERAS
Transport CARRY
Waste conduits SEWERS
Weaponry ARMS
Whitish ASHEN
Wiggle room LEEWAY
Wood shaper LATHE
Yellowish shade OCHER
__ Crewe, Burnett's "Little Princess" SARA