L.A. Times Daily - Aug 25 2006

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Clues Answers
"... take arms against a __ of troubles": Hamlet SEA
"A diamond is forever," to De Beers SLOGAN
"High Voltage" rock band ACDC
"__ Sings the Blues" LADY
17- and 43-Across NOTEDDETECTIVES
17-Across nemesis THEJOKER
17-Across publisher DCCOMICS
1939 debut BATMAN
1972 U.S. Open champ NASTASE
1977 Steely Dan album AJA
43-Across nemesis MORIARTY
Acct. accrual INT
Atomic TEENSY
Backless shoe MULE
Bane of Colonel Hall's existence, in '50s TV BILKO
Blossom visitor BEE
Caresses, wave-style LAPSAT
Casserole veggie PEA
Certain Honda BIKE
Court ATRIUM
Cruel and unusual, e.g.: Abbr. ADJS
Dash feature TACH
Dealt in SOLD
Deliberately lost TOOKADIVE
Deserved RATED
Drive MOTOR
E-mailed a dupe to CCED
Encryption software and such UTILITIES
Familiar sci-fi nickname ARTOO
Far from moderate RADICAL
Foreboding salutation DEARJOHN
Forwarded SENTON
General who won at Fredericksburg LEE
Get from __: advance slightly ATOB
Hydrocarbon suffix ANE
Inhospitable ICY
Clues Answers
Jewelry resin AMBER
Legal scholar's deg. LLD
Like some skeletons? CLOSETED
Loaf, with "it" DOG
Lofty goals IDEALS
Loosens, in a way UNHOOKS
Mai __ TAI
Mariner, e.g., briefly ALER
More penurious STINGIER
Noxious vapors MIASMA
Ottoman Empire founder OSMAN
Pageant accessory TIARA
Pert SASSY
Pile feature NAP
Poetic preposition ERE
Quentin has directed several of her films UMA
Question source ASKER
School of thought ISM
See 43-Across HOLMES
Shogun stronghold EDO
Start of a pleasing expression? SIL
Steams up ENRAGES
Story ANECDOTE
Stunning computer graphics, e.g. EYECANDY
They provide stability KEELS
Tosses SCRAPS
Turquoise lookalike NILEBLUE
Uninspiring ARID
Wasn't active IDLED
With 58-Across, 1887 debut SHERLOCK
Wonder output? ONEHIT
Wonka's creator DAHL
Work with reverence ODE
Years ago ONCE
Zealot-plus MANIAC
__ Mawr BRYN