L.A. Times Daily - Dec 25 2012

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Clues Answers
"Bearing gifts, we traverse __" AFAR
"Climb aboard!" HOPIN
"However ..." YET
"My Fair Lady" composer Frederick LOEWE
"Sure, skipper!" AYE
"That's unlikely" IBET
"To a ..." poem ODE
Agua, across the Pyrenees EAU
Alternatively ELSE
Angler's boxful LURES
Astonishes STUNS
Big bang creator TNT
Bonnie's partner in crime CLYDE
British county SHIRE
Choir recess APSE
Choir voices ALTOS
Comes to a stop ENDS
Commuter's option RAIL
Damsel MAIDEN
Dead duck GONER
Easy mark PATSY
Electrically flexible ACDC
ExxonMobil trade name ESSO
Family reunion attendee AUNT
Fast RAPID
Finishes, as a road TARS
Giggling syllable HEE
Goodies unclaimed as a result of this puzzle's predicament COOKIESFORSANTA
Has the guts DARES
Home ABODE
Item in a writer's notebook IDEA
Kill the dele STET
Like many a dorm room MESSY
Marry on the sly ELOPE
Matty or Felipe of baseball ALOU
Melodious winds OBOES
Milk dispenser UDDER
More expensive HIGHER
Mummy's home TOMB
Clues Answers
Naughty child's stocking filler COAL
Northwest capital BOISE
Ocean SEA
Ocean traveler SUB
Office supplies order REAM
Old battle-ax CRONE
Oompah maker TUBA
Outdoes BESTS
Pantry ant, e.g PEST
Paul's partner in song ART
Pitchman's "Don't delay!" ACTNOW
Place to hang your hat PEG
Prez on a penny ABE
Publicize in a big way TOUT
Revolutionary British sympathizer TORY
Rocky Balboa skipped it ROPE
Safari heavyweight HIPPO
Secret supply CACHE
See 17-Across OURCHIMNEY
See 17-Across CLOGGINGUP
Shout CRYOUT
Shrek and his relatives OGRES
Sidewalk stand buy LEMONADE
Sounded like a pig OINKED
Start from scratch REDO
Take a breath INHALE
Teen's woe ACNE
The Tigers of the NCAA's Southeastern Conference AUBURN
Top pilot ACE
Transparent, as stockings SHEER
Underwater weapon SPEARGUN
Unlike leftovers EATEN
Where eggs mark the spot? NEST
Where X marks the spot MAP
With 26- and 48-Across, unexpected Christmas morning observation SOMETHINGHUGEIS
Zips along SPEEDS
__ about: approximately ONOR
__ gin fizz SLOE
__ wave TIDAL