L.A. Times Daily - Dec 3 2011

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"The Da Vinci Code" monk SILAS
'50s Dodger pitcher Billy LOES
1983 best-seller with a misspelled title word PETSEMATARY
2006 Cate Blanchett film NOTESONASCANDAL
Abridgment on the bridge? CAPN
Aquino's predecessor MARCOS
Auctions PUBLICSALES
Baltimore NFLer called "The Golden Arm" UNITAS
Besmirches TAINTS
Billboard magazine's milieu POPSCENE
Brand with a tiger mascot, once ESSO
CBS ratings giant CSI
Classic 1913 novel called "the tragedy of thousands of young men in England" by its author SONSANDLOVERS
Conical brewing equipment OASTS
Counterproductive "Get Smart" apparatus CONEOFSILENCE
Denver-to-Bismarck dir NNE
Dogpatch creator CAPP
Drought-stricken BONEDRY
Filet mignon sources LOINS
Fivers ABES
Fleet VIP ADM
French enforcement unit SURETE
German director Herzog WERNER
Hypotheticals IFS
Looking grumpy POUTING
Macbeth, for one SCOT
Marzo, por ejemplo MES
Mill output STEEL
More reptilian, in a way SCALIER
Mother of divine twins, in Greek myth LETO
Museum VIPs ARTISTS
Nebraska tribe PONCA
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One might be blonde ALE
One who's been rubbed out? GENIE
Part of PDA: Abbr ASST
Poster-mounting aid DOUBLESIDEDTAPE
Qualifies ENTITLES
Race competitor POL
Radical org. in 1974 headlines SLA
Retired boomers SSTS
Rocker Vicious SID
Ruby or tawny drinks PORTWINES
See 32-Down BUS
Shots taken quickly BELTS
Silkworm's protection COCOON
Solar year/lunar year differentials EPACTS
Some peculiarities TICS
Straightened UNBENT
Student employees, usually PARTTIMERS
Sweetly, in some suites DOLCE
Tendency WONT
Things to avoid TABOOS
Tierney of "E.R." MAURA
Treaty gp. that admitted Belize in 1991 OAS
Tropical fruit GUAVA
Twin who adopted the surname Bunker ENG
Watch readouts, briefly LEDS
Where many homesteaders headed OUTWEST
Where some washers are kept TOOLCHESTS
White and black pawns, e.g OCTETS
With 33-Across, common tourist transport OPENTOP
Zoo feature MOAT
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