L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2011

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Clues Answers
"Attack!" SICEM
"Discreet Music" composer ENO
"Whither thou __ ...": Ruth GOEST
"__ Go Again": Whitesnake #1 song HEREI
'30s-'40s Kildare portrayer AYRES
Actually existing INESSE
Answered on "Name That Fabric"? CRIEDWOOL
Antipoverty agcy OEO
Arcade trademark word SKEE
Aus. currency DOL
Author Yutang LIN
Blue hues AQUAS
Brand at Petco IAMS
Burger queen? GROUNDBEE
Car radio selection PRESET
Chicken general? TSO
City south of Fort Worth WACO
Clothes alterer of a kind MOTH
Coffee choice DRIP
Contentious talk TRASH
Disappearing sound, and a hint to this puzzle's theme PFFT
DOD arm NSA
Doofuses OAFS
Erse speaker, perhaps GAEL
Exiled Cambodian Lon __ NOL
Five-time U.S. Open champ GRAF
Gillespie's genre BOP
Green prefix ECO
H.S. dropout's exam GED
He lowered the New York Times' price from 3â to 1â OCHS
Hedger's OK YESBUT
Heel CUR
Herbert who played 11-Down's nemesis Inspector Dreyfus LOM
High dudgeon IRE
Honolulu's __ Palace IOLANI
It may be a relief GOODNEWS
Its website has a "Rodents 101" section DCON
Jazz great Malone KARL
Jazz phrase RIFF
Clues Answers
Just the binding? BOOKSHELL
Land measurement ACRE
Last of 26, in Chelsea ZED
Like some consequences DIRE
Like some movies INFLIGHT
Literally, "pray God" PRIEDIEU
Medieval fortification WALL
Mouth formations DELTAS
Native American hallucinogen PEYOTE
Non-contraband cheese? LEGALBRIE
Not spare the rod? DOWSE
Olds 442 rivals GTOS
On the __ vive: alert QUI
Oomph ZING
Oscar winner Jannings EMIL
Overly TOO
Pah lead-in OOM
Pats on a buffet OLEO
Pocatello sch ISU
Pointers ARROWS
Ramshackle SHABBY
Reds, maybe WINES
Reunion attendees NIECES
Revealing '60s-'70s fad HOTPANTS
Rock's Burdon et al ERICS
SASE, e.g ENCL
Scale model of an ancient rival of Rome MINIATUREGAUL
Seasonal helper ELF
Sellers role CLOUSEAU
SLAM BANG
Sports Authority Field altitude MILE
Surrealist Jean ARP
Tex's "What if ..." SPOSE
Texter's "Oh, before I forget ..." BTW
Tic, for one SPASM
Toledo-to-Akron dir ESE
Tuner option SEEK
Where Clark met Lewis in 1804 MISSOURI
White rat, e.g ALBINO