L.A. Times Daily - Dec 22 2010

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Clues Answers
"Dies __" IRAE
"Hi-__, Hi-Lo" LILI
"Silas Marner" author ELIOT
"The Time Machine" race ELOI
"Time __ a premium" ISAT
"__ at 'em!" LEMME
13 popes LEOS
1921 sci-fi play RUR
Actress Tyler LIV
Airline to Ben Gurion ELAL
Back porch luxury HOTTUB
Belgrade native SERB
Big name in small trains LIONEL
Blubber SOB
Boxer's wear ROBE
Bulg. neighbor ROM
Bygone Mideast despot SHAH
Canal zones? EARS
Computer data acronym ASCII
Concerning, in memos INRE
Discussion group, and a word that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers PANEL
Do some yard work MOW
Dogpatch's Hawkins SADIE
Dovetail MESH
Encyc. units VOLS
Energize, as a crowd AMPUP
Escapes dramatically from prison GOESOVERTHEWALL
Euphoric feelings HIGHS
Europe's longest river VOLGA
European peak ALP
Frame SETUP
Frau's partner HERR
Gladiator's milieu ARENA
Gumshoe TEC
Hanoi holidays TETS
HBO alternative SHO
Houlihan portrayer on "M*A*S*H" SWIT
Husband-and-wife creators of Curious George REYS
Clues Answers
Impulses URGES
Insect feeler PALP
Is down with HAS
Laurie of "House" HUGH
Longest river in Spain EBRO
Man, for one ISLE
Mean Amin IDI
Mr. Potato Head maker PLAYSKOOL
Narrow defeat, e.g. HEARTBREAKER
Nomo with two no-hitters HIDEO
One point from a service break ADOUT
Opposite of alt, in Augsburg NEU
Palindromic diarist NIN
Part of UCLA LOS
Peke squeak YIP
Potentially slanderous remark SLUR
Preferred option PLANA
Prolonged attack SIEGE
Recipe abbr. TBSP
Refrain syllables TRALA
Right, as a wrong AVENGE
Rock's __ Leppard DEF
Sandal parts STRAPS
Sporty 1960s-'70s Plymouth BARRACUDA
Steinbeck novel set in Monterey TORTILLAFLAT
Summer cooler ICETEA
Svelte TRIM
The lead pipe, the wrench or the candlestick, but not the rope BLUNTINSTRUMENT
Tiny guy TIM
Torrid STEAMY
Tribute that usually rhymes ODE
Versatile vehicle, for short UTE
Vintner's prefix OENO
Vitamin __: PABA BTEN
Walk through puddles SLOSH
Warning about wind chill, say WEATHERADVISORY
Where Bill met Hillary YALE
Wrinkly fruit UGLI