L.A. Times Daily - Jan 12 2007

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Clues Answers
"Smooth Operator" singer SADE
1969 Peace Prize gp. ILO
A prior engagement, in socialspeak PLANS
Adoring trio MAGI
Arabian Sea country: Abbr. PAK
Arctic coast explorer RAE
Battery-operated night flight? ELECTRICREDEYE
Being controlled INHAND
Biblical twin ESAU
Cainites, e.g. SECT
Closet problem MOTH
Compensates for a late night, maybe SLEEPSIN
Compos mentis SANE
Cooking aids OILS
Coward in a Jeff Foxworthy joke? CHICKENREDNECK
Crumbs ORTS
Discreet summons PSST
Dundee bureaucracy? SCOTCHREDTAPE
Dundee denials NAES
Earthly incarnation AVATAR
Et __ ALIA
Floral support STEM
Florida's __ City, near Tampa DADE
Frigid weather word MINUS
Gardener's buy SEEDS
Glum MOPEY
Head cases? CRANIA
Hold (down) PIN
Hoops BBALL
It makes pie crusts flakier LARD
Janis's comics partner ARLO
Joshes RIBS
Label BRAND
Legal claim LIEN
Lip-__ SYNC
Lodges, as a complaint FILES
Louisiana Purchase, for one TREATY
Made a stink REEKED
Clues Answers
Many "Star Trek" characters ETS
Masonry support ANTA
Music for it is written largely in alto clef VIOLA
Nav. rank ENS
Nut from China LITCHI
One way to share ALIKE
Onetime friend of Camus SARTRE
Open-and-shut case spoiler LOOSEEND
Pass ELAPSE
Porter in the pool? BATHINGREDCAP
Purpose USE
Put together, in a way GLUE
Quickly SOON
Radiation units REMS
Roman goddess of plenty OPS
S&L protector FDIC
Sharpen HONE
Shout from someone behind you? RAH
Shows disapproval of TSKS
Spanish souls ALMAS
Start for space? AERO
Stick in a hall CUE
Superiors ELDERS
Swiss mathematician EULER
Symbol of simplicity ABC
T-shirt size LGE
Take in REAP
Tea party screwball HATTER
Tee off RILE
Tie securely CHAIN
Too-too ARTSY
Trick PLOY
When brunch may be served ATTEN
White House nickname RON
Yalie ELI
Yank, for one ALER
Year in Boniface IX's reign MCDI
Years ago ONCE