L.A. Times Daily - Mar 13 2011

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"Casey at the Bat" autobiographer STENGEL
"Circle of Friends" author Binchy MAEVE
"Games People Play" author Eric BERNE
"To Kill a Mockingbird" Pulitzer winner LEE
'60s Israeli prime minister ESHKOL
1974 CIA spoof SPYS
Accomplish REALIZE
Ball girl BELLE
Barrage SALVO
Bean and Welles ORSONS
Benedict XVI, e.g. POPE
Blissful settings EDENS
Block BAR
Bone: Pref. OSTEO
Boston department store founder FILENE
Boston transit syst. MTA
Brought out EVOKED
Bumpkin RUBE
Certain NCO SSGT
Check before cutting REMEASURE
Chevy SUV TAHOE
Class-conscious gps.? PTAS
Collar victim PERP
Coming-out party? GAY
Confectionery collectible PEZ
Corn holder COB
Credit card name under a red arc CITI
Crooner Mel TORME
Cry of anticipation ICANTWAIT
Culture: Pref. ETHNO
Cupid's counterpart EROS
Dear, in Dijon CHERE
Dessert choice PIE
Douglas and others FIRS
Dramatist Fugard ATHOL
Drug money? EVILGREEN
Early communications satellite TELSTAR
Elizabethan expo FAIRE
Failed flier EASTERN
Flowery welcomes LEIS
Focus at a boxer's school? OBEDIENCE
Form letters? IRS
Formerly, formerly ERST
French isl. south of Newfoundland STPIERRE
Fund for hammer parts? PEENMONEY
Gangsta rap pioneer ICET
Giraffe relative OKAPI
Got off ALIT
Hair cover SNOOD
Half a dance CAN
Hang behind LAG
Hotel meetings, perhaps TRYSTS
How some soccer games end INATIE
Hunted PREY
Illegal payments SOPS
Inside info TIP
It may be taken in a parlor TEA
It's not an original REPRO
Jazz __ ERA
Kurdish relative FARSI
Leaves alone LETSLIE
Like good jokes RETOLD
Like Tom Jones, by birth WELSH
Londonderry's river FOYLE
Make lace TAT
Math subgroup COSET
Meek Jolly Roger crewmen? PIRATESHEEP
Meryl as a coquette? STREEPTEASE
Mideastern pastry dough FILO
Mil. spud duties KPS
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Mineral involved in much litigation ASBESTOS
Misses some of the lecture, perhaps NODS
Missile with a feathery flight DART
Moses sent him into Canaan to spy CALEB
N.J. neighbor DEL
NASA's "Go" AOK
NBC newsman Roger ONEIL
Nevada senator REID
Night music TAPS
Northwestern sch. where Cougar Gold cheese is made WSU
Novelist Deighton LEN
Obama, e.g.: Abbr. DEM
Occurring before: Abbr. PREC
Old strings LYRES
Old strings LUTE
One way to get to Paris BYAIR
One-million link INA
Ones against us ENEMY
Orchestra members CELLISTS
Oriole Park at __ Yards CAMDEN
Oscar winner Patricia NEAL
Ownership dispute? DEEDBATTLE
Paddled boats CANOES
Pen name BIC
Pie chart fig. PCT
Polish protector? SHEENGUARD
Popular shift DAYS
Prado pictures ARTE
Pres. during Brown v. Board of Education DDE
Pro foe ANTI
Proverbial sword beater PEN
Put into groups SORTED
R rating cause VIOLENCE
R.E.M. hit, with "The" ONEILOVE
Raw rocks ORES
Rear-ends, say SLAMSINTO
Red-costumed actor in "Veggie Tales"? BEETPLAYER
Request to a dealer HITME
River of Tuscany ARNO
Root vegetable PARSNIP
Satyr's kin FAUN
SDI weapons ABMS
Selection word EENIE
Sets straight TRUES
Some 'Vette coverings TTOPS
Some reality show winners IDOLS
Source of a vital supply RESERVOIR
Spent the cold season (in) WINTERED
Spin-off starring Valerie Harper RHODA
Sporty Italian wheels FERRARI
Stadium stratum TIER
Stone marker STELE
Stowe novel subtitled "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" DRED
Supermodel Wek ALEK
Swedish city connected by a bridge to Copenhagen MALMO
Take really short catnaps during a Henny Youngman routine? SLEEPBETWEENTHECRACKS
Theater aisles, usually RAMPS
Those, in Tenerife ESAS
Tibetan priest LAMA
Time to beware IDES
Tiny nestling's cry? MICROCHEEP
Tropical grassland SAVANNA
Turns VEERS
Unites WEDS
Water source EVIAN
Wikipedia policy NOADS
Words before an important announcement STAYTUNED
You can get down on one KNEE
Zip NONE
__-European languages INDO