L.A. Times Daily - Dec 16 2009

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Clues Answers
"Mermaids" actress CHER
"The Crucible," e.g. DRAMA
"You __ be there" HADTO
#1 picks FAVES
A Coen brother ETHAN
Actor Dillon MATT
Actress Hathaway ANNE
Alcatraz, e.g.: Abbr. ISL
Apple topping CARAMEL
Audition TEST
Author Rand AYN
Awfully long time EON
Ballet leaps JETES
Beethoven specialties SONATAS
Blab YAK
Bridges of Los Angeles County JEFF
Calf catcher LASSO
Co-creator of "The View" WALTERS
Comfort CONSOLATION
Concert finale? INA
Contraction that's an "i" dropper TWERE
Copier abbr. LTR
Cry that's a laugh backward RAH
Eddie's "Green Acres" co-star EVA
First name in nursing CLARA
Flip out SNAP
Foal fathers SIRES
Follow ENSUE
Ford Taurus, e.g. SEDAN
Gardner of film AVA
Go down a slippery slope SKI
Gp. with F-16s USAF
Guillermo's gold ORO
Henri's conclusion? ETTA
In __: lined up AROW
Instruments with pedals HARPS
Intro to -holic CHOCO
It gets let off STEAM
L x VI CCC
Lewis or Lois colleague CLARK
Clues Answers
Look like a wolf LEER
Mil. schools ACADS
More evasive COYER
Nap or nip preceder CAT
Netanyahu's successor BARAK
Norse saint OLAF
Oft-visited pub room LOO
Online business ETAIL
Oscar de la __ RENTA
Outnumber all others PREDOMINATE
Painter Chagall MARC
Passing Manning ELI
PBS funder NEA
PC core CPU
Phillies all-star slugger Utley CHASE
Play delayers RAINS
Pooped ALLTIREDOUT
Queen whose name contains three apt words in a row, as does each of this puzzle's four longest answers LATIFAH
Rhyme scheme used in a villanelle ABAA
Say another way RESTATE
Sedge-filled wetlands FENS
Sgt.'s trainee PFC
Shooting Starr BELLE
Sister Sledge hit WEAREFAMILY
Slaw and fries SIDES
Specter on the Hill ARLEN
Spy plane acronym AWACS
Sunrise direction, in Stuttgart OST
Tax-deferring option, briefly IRA
Temple's team OWLS
The __ Parade ROSE
Thinks the world of LOVES
Tractor shelters BARNS
TV spot pro ADREP
Where Ben Bernanke got his Ph.D. MIT
Word before or after thou ART
Work without __ ANET
Zhou __ ENLAI
__ Sweeney, Ethel Merman's "Anything Goes" role RENO
__-Jo: Olympic sprinter's nickname FLO