L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2012

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Clues Answers
"Close call!" PHEW
"Dancing Queen" band ABBA
"Dismount" or "settle"? OTHERWORDSLIKEALIGHT
"Don't worry about me" IMFINE
"Marat/__": 1963 play SADE
"Oh, come on!" SHEESH
"Reservoir Dogs" actor KEITEL
"Rock and Roll, Hoochie __": 1974 hit KOO
"Speed-the-Plow" playwright MAMET
"__ Wiedersehen" AUF
"__, we won't go!": '60s antiwar chant HELLNO
Absolute UTTER
Absorbed, as a cost ATE
Accompaniment ADDON
Actor Daniel __ Kim DAE
Actor whose voice is emulated by Snagglepuss the Lion LAHR
Actress Linney et al LAURAS
Ancient AGEOLD
Assigned in spades PILEDON
Avoid waffling MEANIT
Berlin article EINE
Blows up SEESRED
Brief court plea NOLO
Chance-of-rain nos PCTS
Chevy subcompact AVEO
Chiwere speaker OTOE
Cinder receptacle ASHBIN
City near Anaheim BREA
Clean off plates? EAT
Cleaning basic WETRAG
Color in large Crayola packs SKYBLUE
Contrary current EDDY
Cut off END
Daughter of Darth LEIA
Declining in later years SENILE
Depilatory cream NAIR
Dimwit DODO
Dresses ENROBES
Drying oven OAST
Equal, as expectations RISETO
FDR project TVA
Foil relative EPEE
Food truck drinks ADES
Food-fight evidence at the picnic? APICKLEONALIMB
Former Indy champ Bobby RAHAL
Get down? SADDEN
Golf shoe brand ETONIC
Gone by AGO
Hank who voices some "Simpsons" characters AZARIA
Hinge (on) DEPEND
Inn option RAMADA
Iranian currency RIAL
Ironically, he composed the "Microsoft sound" on a Mac ENO
Issues requiring attention FISHTOFRY
Jefferson Davis's sch USMA
John who loved Colorado DENVER
Kept under wraps HID
Kid's comeback CANSO
Kind of bran OAT
Land div. by the 38th parallel KOR
Lass GIRL
Lawn beads DEW
Learn all aspects of MASTER
Leggy runner EMU
Like corn in the kettle HUSKED
Like some nuts INSANE
Many millennia EONS
Marlins' div NLE
McKinley, e.g.: Abbr MTN
Clues Answers
Memorable Eastwood line MAKEMYDAY
Meryl Streep's alma mater VASSAR
Monster with both a lion's and goat's head CHIMERA
Not as slow as adagio ANDANTE
Ocean predator ORCA
Offhand turndowns NAHS
Offscreen friend in "Ernest" films VERN
On the safer side ALEE
Online exchanges, briefly IMS
Optimistic reply IHOPESO
Packer with a strong arm STARR
Participation declaration IMIN
Pasture parent EWE
Pensioned: Abbr RETD
Performing trip TOUR
Personnel list ROTA
Piano brand YAMAHA
Plus-size supermodel EMME
Polar sheet FLOE
Port of Yemen ADEN
Preschool song opener ABCD
Professor 'iggins ENRY
Proofer's finds ERRATA
Put to shame ABASHED
Quebec's __'Orléans ILED
Radio host John TESH
Reenactment of a memorable scene from "The Exorcist"? FULLSWINGOFONESHEAD
Relating to regional animal life FAUNAL
Report generators LABS
Respectful address MAAM
Riesling giant Chateau __ Michelle STE
Ripped off STOLEN
Rocky road from fad to fashion? FITSANDSTARTSOFSTYLE
Rough talk RASP
Running swiftly AGALLOP
Seinfeld's Uncle Leo portrayer __ Lesser LEN
Shifty sort SLYDOG
Short-lived diet, perhaps FAD
Sign of hope RAY
Sing unlike Bing BELTOUT
Sipped uncertainly TRIED
Sm. change CTS
Small, aptly? LIL
Smashes beyond repair TOTALS
Solidarity among commoners? UNISONOFTHEORDINARY
Sources of some stadium images BLIMPS
Spanish novelist Blasco __ IBANEZ
Suffix meaning "living substance" PLASM
Tale YARN
Team moving to the American League in 2013 ASTROS
Tibetan priest LAMA
Tie concern SPOT
Tierney of "NewsRadio" MAURA
Tilted LEANED
To a large degree BYHALF
To what length HOWFAR
To-do list item ERRAND
Top dog HONCHO
Unheeding DEAF
Utterly OHSO
Vents frustration toward RANTSAT
Washing station BASIN
What opinions often do DIFFER
Whomp relative THUD
Winning like crazy ONAROLL
Wolfing down burgers and fries while driving? ABADWAYTOLUNCH
Woofer's sound ARF
Work the aisles, in slang USH
__ cava VENA