L.A. Times Daily - Dec 17 2006

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Clues Answers
"... blah, blah, blah" ETC
"A Wrinkle in Time" author L'Engle MADELEINE
"Aladdin" transport MAGICCARPET
"How now? __?": Hamlet, before mistakenly slaying Polonius ARAT
"Hurlyburly" playwright RABE
"Into the Woods" song AGONY
"It's nothing" preceder THANKS
"Jericho" network CBS
"La Loge" painter RENOIR
"__ you serious?" ARE
1971 Woody Allen film BANANAS
1998 Liberty Bowl champs TULANE
Actress Anderson LONI
Alaska's Dalton Highway crosses it ARCTICCIRCLE
Ali __ BABA
Alpine retreat CHALET
Antipathist's list HATES
Arthur of tennis ASHE
Assistant with a hunch? IGOR
Attempt STAB
Author Oz AMOS
Barely manage, with "out" EKE
Bear ABIDE
Bob Mackie creation DRESS
Brain cells? CRANIA
Camelot weapon LANCE
Capture GET
Charade ACT
Chulalongkorn University attendee THAI
Civil War initials CSA
Clean, in a way RINSE
Coming-out parties DEBS
Contradicted NEGATED
Cores NUCLEI
Cream component? ERICCLAPTON
Creed ISM
Curved fastener UBOLT
Decorative neckwear CRAVAT
Discomfort UNEASE
Dryer phenomenon STATICCLING
Dynamic start? AERO
Edinburgh-born philosopher HUME
European viper ADDER
Exodus commemoration SEDER
Fail in the clutch CHOKE
Feed the kitty ANTE
First word of "The Raven" ONCE
Galena or bauxite ORE
Galoots APES
Gator's cousin CROC
Genesis skipper NOAH
Go here and there ROVE
Good way to have it MADE
Handle SEETO
Hard white china IRONSTONE
Have markers out OWE
Highlands group CLAN
Horatian creations ODES
Hosted EMCEED
Hot feeling IRE
Hustled HIED
Iditarod destination NOME
Indian state whose capital is Dispur ASSAM
Irish county CLARE
It was originally first on the Roman calendar MARCH
Jalopy CRATE
John of "Jake in Progress" STAMOS
Jumper cable connection ANODE
Kind of boom SONIC
Landfill load TRASH
LAX info ETA
Like a fine Bordeaux AGED
Clues Answers
Low strings BASSES
Low-risk strategy HEDGE
Luke's father DARTH
Mass medium? CATHOLICCHURCH
Memphis-to-Mobile dir. SSE
Mess up BOTCH
Mighty Mouse, e.g. RODENT
More than a shortage LACK
Naughty BAD
Noted temptation victim EVE
NYSE volatility measures BETAS
Obi-Wan portrayer EWAN
Obi-Wan portrayer ALEC
Observes Yom Kippur, e.g. ATONES
Old Venetian judge DOGE
One in distress? DAMSEL
One of about 11 in a foot-candle LUX
One of six NFL teams never to play in a Super Bowl LIONS
Overthrow, usually ERROR
Pal of Laa-Laa and Tinky Winky DIPSY
Parenthesis, in essence ARC
Part of QED ERAT
Part of the plot? ACRE
Perceptive ACUTE
Performance enhancers in the news STEROIDS
Pianist's finger-sliding passage GLISSANDO
Place for a workout ATHLETICCLUB
Pleasant-smelling SAVORY
Pork-barreler POL
Precise timepiece ATOMICCLOCK
Put away EATEN
Put one past? ACED
Put out to pasture RETIRE
Quarterback's protection LINE
Reindeer kin ELKS
Respond to reveille RISE
Rising point EAST
River past Thebes NILE
River through Orsk URAL
Roman crowd? III
Rosary piece BEAD
Salt's "Halt!" AVAST
Santa __ ANA
Shaver TOT
Shoshoneans UTES
Silent auction? EBAY
Simple homes CABINS
Spanish sparkling wine CAVA
Specially appointed group ADHOCCOMMITTEE
St. Louis gridder RAM
Stale-smelling RANCID
Start to freeze? ANTI
Striker on a line PICKETER
Students' second chances RETESTS
Sulky MOROSE
Swabby TAR
Tips while moving CAREENS
Torn RENT
Touched by an angel BLESSED
Traps, with "in" HEMS
Vague amount ANY
Variable, as weather UNSETTLED
Vast and attractive SCENIC
Vinyl piece TILE
Ward of "The Fugitive" SELA
Wheels in the driveway TRIKE
Where to find contacts EYES
Yellow-furred comics dog ODIE
Youth LAD
__ even keel ONAN
__ infra: see below VIDE
__ populi: popular opinion VOX