L.A. Times Daily - Dec 31 2010

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Clues Answers
"Devil Without a Cause" musician KIDROCK
"The Remains of the Day" author __ Ishiguro KAZUO
"What's __, Doc?": Classic "Looney Tunes" short OPERA
"X-ing" one PED
'60s quartet member MAMA
6 7/8, e.g. HATSIZE
Alluring tops HALTERS
Alp-Öhi's granddaughter in an 1880 novel HEIDI
Appear SEEM
Avant-garde EDGY
Baptize with oil ANOINT
Barnyard male TOM
Beethoven dedicatee ELISE
Blows BOPS
Blunted swords EPEES
Burning ABLAZE
Collectively INALL
Conger's protection? EELHELMET
Cutlass maker OLDS
Cyrus who plays Hannah Montana MILEY
Diamond oration? UMPSPEECH
Dum-dum MORON
Event with gowns BALL
Fez feature TASSEL
Figured (out), slangily DOPED
First Nations members CREES
Flooded field PADDY
Fonda title role ULEE
Hardly a model of perfection, and a hint to how this puzzle's theme puns are derived NOSAINT
Hägar's dog SNERT
Hook's mate SMEE
Improvised, in a way JAMMED
Its atomic number is 10 NEON
Jane Austen opus EMMA
Jerk SCHMO
Joystick user PILOT
Latin Quarter site PARIS
Like falling off a log EASY
Like some walls BARE
Clues Answers
Lofgren of the E Street Band NILS
Loud, ringing sound BONG
Macbeth's thanedom before he became king CAWDOR
Mideast bigwigs EMIRS
Modeling milieu RAMP
Muddy SOIL
Name on some neutral WWII ships EIRE
News __ ITEM
One of TV's Mavericks BART
Open some AJAR
Org. where fur doesn't fly? PETA
PC port for a flash drive USB
Prepares potatoes, in a way RICES
Product with earbuds IPOD
Push, so to speak VEND
Resistance units OHMS
Roadie, after a gig? AMPCOLLECTOR
Sailing, say ASEA
Sci-fi effects ZAPS
Sea anemone, e.g. POLYP
Seriously impairs MAIMS
Sign with an arrow ONEWAY
Snap PIC
Soak flax RET
Soup vegetable LEEK
Space-saving abbr. ETAL
Spanish pronoun ESO
Splitting it releases energy ATOM
Sweeping story EPIC
Times for cool heads CRISES
Tracker of bauxite thieves? OREDETECTIVE
Tree with edible nuts BEECH
Univ., e.g. SCH
Vegas drive-through CHAPEL
Zone AREA
__ Age IRON
__ breve ALLA
__ buco OSSO
__-Magnon man CRO