L.A. Times Daily - Jan 27 2008

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Clues Answers
"A __ of Their Own" LEAGUE
"Chestnuts roasting ..." co-writer TORME
"If I Were a Rich Man" singer TEVYE
"It's my best effort" ITRY
"Judith" composer ARNE
"Monk" network USA
"Raging Bull" Oscar winner DENIRO
"That wasn't exactly how it happened" ILIED
"Too much information!" SPAREME
"Where or When" soloist, 1959-'60 DION
1998 Sarah McLachlan hit ADIA
20th, e.g.: Abbr. CEN
68-Across's conversation input? OFFHANDREMARK
68-Across's favorite attire? RELAXEDFITJEANS
68-Across's music genre? EASYLISTENING
68-Across's preferred pursuit? LEISUREACTIVITY
68-Across's way of asking? CASUALREQUEST
A secretary might take it DICTATION
A, in communications ALFA
A.C. Nielsen concern TVSHOW
Actor Morales ESAI
Actor with presidential first and last names FORD
Aggregate SUM
Airport near Shea, briefly LGA
Ancient kingdom near Edom MOAB
Art Deco designer ERTE
Ascribes, as blame LAYS
Asian soldier ROK
Banish EXILE
Beautician, at times DYER
Berth with a ladder UPPER
Biblical witch's home ENDOR
Board abrasive EMERY
Brandy letters VSO
Brush sites HEATHS
Cal's brother in "East of Eden" ARON
Call SUMMON
Canine event, in more ways than one DOGBITE
Chooses SELECTS
City at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains OGDEN
Classic grape soda NEHI
Code writer of a kind TAXER
Commando weapons UZIS
Costume party items MASKS
Cutting sound SNIP
Dallas NBAer MAV
Didn't act well EMOTED
Dieter's breakfast MELON
Doe's beau STAG
Down Under soldier ANZAC
Dropped in CAMEBY
Dweeb WEENIE
Embellishment, perhaps FIB
Ennea- minus one OCTO
Equinox mo. SEPT
Ewing, once KNICK
Fix up REDO
Gene's "Brigadoon" partner CYD
Ger. TEUT
Get up WAKEN
Gets in one's sights AIMSAT
Gilroy who pursued Dobie Gillis ZELDA
Govt. check? IRSAUDIT
Gp. with a three-volume "Patriot Index" DAR
Had the desired effect HITHOME
Hardware fastener TNUT
Hook or hitch ATTACH
Hopper FROG
Husband of Ruth BOAZ
Hustler CROOK
Clues Answers
Imperiled INDANGER
In the mail SENT
Intl. commerce group WTO
Irritating aerosol MACE
Island near Mindanao LEYTE
It's under krypton on the periodic table XENON
Jazz band section SAXES
Lao-tzu's philosophy TAO
Latin lesson word AMAT
Like Abner LIL
Longtime Mets announcer KINER
Loss of the ability to read ALEXIA
M.'s partner MME
Mantle won it three times MVP
Mild expletive DRAT
Noodle __: old product name RONI
Northeast nickname BEANTOWN
Not fully closed AJAR
Now, in Nogales AHORA
Nuke-testing dept. ENER
Oh's role in "Grey's Anatomy" YANG
One "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be": Bierce CYNIC
Online kids' mecca ETOYS
Online mailing tool ELIST
Ornamental carp KOI
Part of USDA: Abbr. AGR
Peter and Paul: Abbr. STS
Piece org.? NRA
Pindaric works ODES
Pointed tool AWL
Prom dancer TEEN
Promising youngsters PHENOMS
Prov. on James Bay QUE
Punch reaction OUCH
Puppeteer Baird BIL
Puritanical Aussie WOWSER
Qantas hater of old ads KOALA
Razor-billed bird AUK
Really went after LITINTO
Retirement option for the self-employed KEOGH
Review WRITEUP
Sanctioned OKD
Scotland's longest river TAY
Scott in 1857 news DRED
Share, as a favorite story RETELL
Sheik's land, in song ARABY
Shooting films? OATERS
Small dispute SETTO
Stable emanations ODORS
Store teaser ONSALENOW
Subject of this puzzle LAIDBACKPERSONALITY
Suds sources BEERTAPS
Surf feature SPRAY
Sweet Rosie of song OGRADY
Take on again REHIRE
Tammany Hall caricaturist NAST
The Hatfields' st. WVA
Thesis defenses ORALS
Tiny menace TSETSE
Trawling, e.g. ASEA
Type sizes PICAS
Univ. helpers TAS
Vintage violin AMATI
What 68-Across often pays? INFORMALVISIT
What it takes? TWO
Where Anna taught SIAM
Wickerwork material RATTAN
Wise lawgiver SOLON
__ field day HADA
__-tat-tat RATA