L.A. Times Daily - Jan 4 2011

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"The Name of the Rose" author Umberto ECO
Abridged maxim about accepting an apt description, and a hint to this puzzle's theme found in 20-, 34- and 40-Across IFTHESHOEFITS
Actor with nothing to say MIME
Adjustor's assessment DAMAGE
Approximately, in dates CIRCA
Arabian peninsula port ADEN
Biblical hymn PSALM
Biblical possessive THINE
Bonneville Speedway terrain SALTFLATS
Bristol baby carriage PRAM
Candle count, on many cakes AGE
Catch wind of HEAR
Certain title DEED
Course list MENU
Debate subject ISSUE
Dent or scratch MAR
Do the math, in a way ADD
Door-to-door company AVON
Drama featuring a DNA lab CSI
Duds in a lot LEMONS
Earth tone ECRU
Fancy tie ASCOT
Fashionable way to arrive? LATE
Fish also called a sockeye REDSALMON
Fishing need LINE
Genesis creator SEGA
Get around EVADE
Give up amateur status GOPRO
Golf rarities ACES
Hazard lights, e.g. FLASHERS
Helpers AIDES
Helpful OFUSE
Hilo hello ALOHA
How many fall in love HEADOVERHEELS
Isle of __ MAN
Israeli desert NEGEV
It may be enough ONCE
It may be topographical MAP
Jungle growth VINES
Clues Answers
K-12 catchall ELHI
Keats, e.g. ODIST
Kremlin feature SPIRE
Less, in La Paz MENOS
Lets up EASES
Like serious collectors AVID
Like some sweatshirts HOODED
Located SITED
Lone Star State sch. UTEP
Mauna __ LOA
Mound stats ERAS
Mule's parent ASS
New Age musician John TESH
No longer in doubt PROVEN
Onset START
Patron saint of Norway OLAV
PC alternatives MACS
Pizarro victims INCAS
Places with valuable veins GOLDMINES
Precede ANTEDATE
Ristorante staple PASTA
River through France RHONE
Rowing implement OAR
Sense FEEL
Sit for a shooting POSE
Sought office RAN
Spanish folk hero ELCID
Stolen goods dealer FENCE
Temperature control devices HEATPUMPS
Tenants' strike leverage RENT
Tiny power source ATOM
Tolkien tree creature ENT
Turn red, as tomatoes RIPEN
Twangy NASAL
Type specification FONT
Went like the wind TORE
Wild West lawman EARP
With it HIP
__ majesty LESE