L.A. Times Daily - Dec 14 2014

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Clues Answers
"Dr. Strangelove" subject ABOMB
"Harry Potter" garden pest GNOME
"Shucks" HECK
"Where've you __?" BEEN
"__ in Provence": Mayle best-seller AYEAR
1970s-'80s FBI bribery sting ABSCAM
1985, for Marty McFly PRESENT
2009 World Series MVP Hideki MATSUI
Additions ANDS
After inventing the forerunner to the modern toilet, Harington __ FLUSHEDWITHPRIDE
Attendees of Connecticut's Battell Chapel YALIES
Bank statement entries FEES
Banned bug spray DDT
Besiege ASSAIL
Big memory unit TERABIT
Black Sea port ODESSA
Bog flora SEDGE
Boomers' kids XERS
Buck back? AROO
Burgundy bud AMI
Campsite cover TARP
Can AXE
Carlo Levi's "Christ Stopped at __" EBOLI
Census info, e.g DATA
Certain screecher OWL
Checkers cry KINGME
Cheer on ROOTFOR
Cleaning supplies CLOTHS
Combine FUSE
Concert finish? INA
Coneflower genus ECHINACEA
Deli offering HERO
Do followers REMI
Doing business OPEN
Drummer Van Halen ALEX
Early Beatles bassist Sutcliffe STU
Emmy winner Arthur BEA
Enterprise counselor TROI
Eponymous skater Paulsen AXEL
Facility EASE
Fat Albert catchphrase HEYHEYHEY
Filled pastry ECLAIR
Firewater HOOCH
Fonda's title beekeeper ULEE
Fossil fuel transport COALER
German sub UBOAT
GoPro product, briefly CAM
Hal who produced Laurel and Hardy films ROACH
Helmut's denials NEINS
Helper with a hunch IGOR
Hersey's bell town ADANO
Holders of glasses NOSES
Hot brew TEA
How-to letters DIY
Hullabaloo RACKET
Hustled RACED
Immediately upon inventing the box camera (but not the lens cap), Eastman __ SNAPPEDHISFINGERS
In inventing his elevator, Otis __ ROSETOTHEOCCASION
In inventing the hot air balloon, the Montgolfier brothers __ GOTCARRIEDAWAY
Indian tourist city AGRA
Inflamed IRED
Infrequently, to Dickinson SELDOMLY
Janis' comics husband ARLO
Latin wings ALAE
Like some seals EMBOSSED
Lite to the max NOCAL
Low pair TREYS
Low point NADIR
Luxury SUV ACURAMDX
Matzo meals SEDERS
Clues Answers
Menageries ZOOS
Mesoamerican language family MAYAN
Middling grades CEES
Miler Sebastian COE
Nervously testing his new invention, the Aqua-Lung, Cousteau __ TOOKADEEPBREATH
New branch SHOOT
Not allowed ANONO
Old Norse poetry collection EDDA
Old Sony brand AIWA
Open, as a deadbolt UNBAR
Opposite of ahead ASTERN
Orange-nosed Muppet ELMO
Oscar winner Sorvino MIRA
Outfielder's "I don't got it!" YOURS
Packs again, at the checkout REBAGS
Partner MATE
Payroll addition HIREE
Periodontist's concern GUMS
Pet shop fish TETRAS
Pickup game side SHIRTS
Piece of cake CINCH
Poetic lament ELEGY
Poison carriers BLOWDARTS
Portuguese pronoun ELA
Prayer counter's beads ROSARY
Producer of steamy fare? WOK
Proving his invention of the joy buzzer to be a complete success, Adams __ SHOCKEDEVERYONE
Rail vehicle TRAM
Roadside light FLARE
Ryder Cup number PAR
Saw logs SNORE
Scary film street ELM
Scot's "Crikey!" OCH
Sellers of used texts ALUMNI
Service station of a sort PIT
Shivering state AGUE
Singer John ELTON
Singer O'Connor SINEAD
Slew TON
Soft wood BALSA
Some dorm rooms MESSES
Spill, with "out" BLURT
Squabble TIFF
Square on a game square TILE
Stink REEK
Striped-shirt wearer REF
Take-off programs? DIETS
Tasseled top FEZ
The "I" in I.M. Pei IEOH
They're loaded SOUSES
Thin plate LAMINA
Tie DRAW
Tiptop AONE
Tired, but pleased to have invented the air conditioner, Carrier __ COOLEDHISHEELS
To celebrate inventing his revolutionary engine, Watt __ BLEWOFFSOMESTEAM
Toast starter BOTTOMS
Too easy LAX
Tour vehicle BUS
Transmit continuously, as video STREAM
Troop-lifting gp USO
Tut relatives TSKS
U.N. workers' group ILO
Unwelcome look LEER
Vein locales MINES
Vientiane local LAO
West of "I'm No Angel" MAE
Where to go whole hog? PIGROAST
Winning the lottery, for most DREAM
Woodcutter Baba ALI
YouTube find, for short VID