L.A. Times Daily - Jan 2 2011

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Clues Answers
"Dilbert" intern ASOK
"Grace Before Meat" essayist ELIA
"Great" feature of Jupiter REDSPOT
"It couldn't be worse!" NOTTHAT
"The Nutcracker __" SUITE
1959-'60 heavyweight champ Johansson INGEMAR
A scandal often ruins one IMAGE
Aboriginal Walkman? NATIVESONY
Actor Grant HUGH
Adopt the naturist philosophy GONUDE
Advanced teaching deg. MSED
Aggressive pinballer TILTER
Amazonian oddsmaker? THEJUNGLEBOOKIE
Apollo's instrument LYRE
Architectural molding CORNICE
Author Kesey KEN
Back muscle, for short LAT
Barrie baddie SMEE
Beatnik's "Got it" IMHIP
Believed, to Tweety TAWT
Bite response OUCH
Boating on the briny ASEA
Bridal trails AISLES
Buckeye State OHIO
Central INNER
Certain hip-hop dancer BGIRL
Christmas classic opening TWAS
City west of Mesa TEMPE
Climbed SCALED
Coal channel CHUTE
Colorful worker? DYER
Complicated MESSY
Consecrate, in a way ANOINT
Dictators' underlings STENOS
Dr. of hip-hop DRE
Dreads sporter RASTA
Dressing room sprite? VANITYFAIRY
Ejects, as lava SPEWS
End in __ ATIE
Fabric softener delivered overseas? WATERSHIPDOWNY
Fashioned STYLED
Fax forerunner TELETYPE
Feast DINE
Fixed up REDID
From head to foot CAPAPIE
German border river ODER
Ginseng, for one ROOT
Ginseng, for one HERB
Girl leader? ATTA
Goat's friend? BILLYBUDDY
Hairy herd BISON
Hamburg article EIN
Hammett canine ASTA
Hammett hero SPADE
Hardly religious UNHOLY
Hero's birthplace? KITCHEN
Hillary helper SHERPA
Hops-drying kilns OASTS
How a rock band's equipment damage was blamed? ONTHEROADIE
How a youngster might watch a parade, with "on" TIPPYTOE
Ices, maybe NUMBS
Indians, on scoreboards CLE
Indy car's lack REARSEAT
Intro for John? DEAR
It might mean "I'm hungry!" ARF
It's heard a lot in Los Angeles SPANISH
Jacob's first wife LEAH
Jazz trumpeter's nickname SATCH
Jazz trumpeter's nickname DIZ
Jeremy and friends, in "Zits" comics TEENS
Clues Answers
Kathy of country MATTEA
Kyoto ties OBIS
Like the movie "Airplane!" SATIRIC
Logging channel FLUME
Malaprop or Miniver MRS
Meet, as a challenge RISETO
Mil. base stores PXES
More than just nodded SAIDHI
Movers with motors VANS
Mozart's birthplace, now: Abbr. AUS
Muscle twitches TICS
N.T. book attributed to Paul EPH
Narcissus snubbed her ECHO
Niblick, nowadays NINEIRON
Of no value, in Normandy NUL
Open for Christmas UNWRAP
Orderly type? SISTER
Paddle-wheel craft STEAMER
Part of ASAP SOONAS
Per se ASSUCH
Phone on stage, e.g. PROP
Pianist John TESH
Plated, in a way ARMORED
Play groups CASTS
Pro __ RATA
Question ASK
Quimby in Beverly Cleary books RAMONA
Quit CEASED
Rat tail? ATAT
Recital highlights SOLI
Recital rebuke SHH
Record holder? EXCON
Retriever's retrieval STICK
Richard's counterpart in the 1956 election ESTES
Risked ATSTAKE
Robert who played Roderigo in Welles's "Othello" COOTE
Royal pain HASSLE
Ruhr Valley city ESSEN
Sculptor's tool CHISEL
Second lady after Tipper LYNNE
See 69-Down PESCI
Set of questions TEST
Sexy sleepwear TEDDY
Short BRIEF
Shots TRIES
Slide show effect FADEIN
Smooch in the shadows STEALAKISS
Smooth and soft SILKEN
Some bar shots RYES
Specific item in a sleepwear collection? TWELFTHNIGHTIE
Store charge, often TAX
Stuttgart title HERR
Success/failure metaphor SINKORSWIM
Suffix with confer ENCE
Take a __: attempt STABAT
Texter's output: Abbr. MSGS
The "0" in "4 5 0," on a scoreboard NOERRORS
Three, in 84-Down TRES
Thurman of film UMA
Totally TOTHEMAX
Turnover, e.g. PASTRY
Uncomplicated type of question YESORNO
Vacation choice CRUISE
Wild harangue RANT
With 105-Across, "GoodFellas" Oscar winner JOE
Wrest SEIZE
Writes John a letter? ENDSIT
Yemen's capital SANA
__ Trophy: biennial European golf event SEVE
__ volente: God willing DEO