L.A. Times Daily - Dec 17 2005

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"Be silent," in music TACET
"I'll handle that" LEAVEITTOME
"The Unbearable Bassington" author SAKI
2004 "Alfie" star Law JUDE
Accident consequences TIEUPS
Babi __: historical WWII site YAR
Baseball's Mel et al. OTTS
Be shy OWE
Big loss, figuratively BATH
Bridge holding TENACE
Buffet table items URNS
Bunch BEVY
Cakewalk ROMP
Carol starter ADESTE
Chick's tail? ADEE
Comes to AWAKENS
Current LATEST
Decline FADE
Defy DARE
Dorset port town POOLE
Drove badly? SLICED
Dunderhead BOZO
Faithful about TRUETO
Financial employee INTERNALAUDITOR
Fingers RATSON
French author who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based MERIMEE
Galena, for one LEADORE
Geometric prefix DECA
Go ELAPSE
Handy term ETAL
Hard butter? RAM
He or I ELEM
Inflate PAD
It was you THEE
It's known for its accuracy QUARTZTIMEPIECE
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La. parish bordering Ascension and Assumption STJAMES
Lets off the hook EXEMPTS
Lively outing SPREE
Logical intro? ECO
London attraction ROYALOPERAHOUSE
Low cloud STRATUS
Made a difference MATTERED
Major leader? URSA
Man and others ISLES
Manager who won five straight World Series CASEYSTENGEL
Meager SCANTY
Medieval German region, to the French SAXE
Often ALOT
Pin site MAT
Place in the Old West? ETTA
Political label derived from an Irish word for "outlaw" TORY
Popular applicator QTIP
Put-down victim EGO
Rage FAD
Remote locations? DENS
Sans opposite AVEC
Seed sheath ARIL
St. with a panhandle IDA
Steam, so to speak DANDER
Strengthen, in a way UNITE
Subject of a pioneering 1984 New York law SEATBELT
Sunken DEEPSET
Together ASONE
Tropical fruit tree GUAVA
TV show for more than 35 years SESAMESTREET
Unyielding TOUGH
Weekly msg. SER
What a chicken lacks COURAGE
Word most often heard around midnight AULD
Yawn GAPE