L.A. Times Daily - Jul 12 2006

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Clues Answers
"The Clan of the Cave Bear" author AUEL
"The Rose" songwriter McBroom AMANDA
1920s White House nickname CAL
A, B and C: Abbr. LTRS
A-Team muscleman MRT
Allow to attack LETAT
Ankle-related TARSAL
Begin a journey SETOUT
Bygone carrier TWA
California's motto EUREKA
Calligrapher's need INK
Carpentry gadgets CLAMPS
Case that makes good scents SACHET
Cast (off) SLOUGH
Chatterbox MOTORMOUTH
China's Zhou __ ENLAI
Cube-shaped rocks? ICE
Cut LOP
Decaf pioneer SANKA
Designates for a purpose EARMARKS
Disoriented ATSEA
Doctor's org. AMA
Down SAD
Downed HAD
Draw out EDUCE
First garden EDEN
French hub ORLY
Git-go ONSET
Go bananas SNAP
Go public with AIR
Gossipy Hopper HEDDA
Guitar great Paul LES
Half of a raindrop rhythm PITTER
Holiday Inn rival RAMADA
Incantation word MANTRA
Incite GOAD
Ishmael, in "Moby Dick" NARRATOR
It can follow the first word of 17-, 26-, 37-, 50- and 60-Across OIL
Clues Answers
It was dropped in the '60s LSD
Jet scores: Abbr. TDS
JFK, for one PRES
Kind of powder TALCUM
Lift off the grill, as a hot dog TONG
Light benders PRISMS
Like some robes PRIESTLY
Little troublemaker IMP
Lost one's lap STOOD
Machu Picchu resident INCA
Make potable, as seawater DESALT
Meth. SYST
Most foxy SLYEST
Narrow passage ALLEYWAY
Not exactly luxury boxes PEANUTGALLERY
One examining your lines PALMREADER
Paving material named for a Scottish engineer MACADAM
Pull an all-nighter CRAM
Quick with comebacks WITTY
Rev.'s address SER
Save for later STORE
Showed relief, in a way SIGHED
Slender sword RAPIER
Snitch RAT
Sommer of films ELKE
Squeeze (out) with effort EKE
Statutes for car buyers LEMONLAWS
T size LGE
Tackle box item LURE
Take up, as a hobby GETINTO
Tempe sch. ASU
Thickness PLY
Towering TALL
Trains over the road ELS
Univ. seniors' challenge GRE
Unrefined CRASS
Whacked, Biblically SMOTE
Youthfully innocent times SALADDAYS