L.A. Times Daily - Dec 4 2011

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Clues Answers
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" poet KEATS
"All I gotta do __ naturally": Beatles lyric ISACT
"Baudolino" novelist ECO
"Ecce __": Pilate HOMO
"It's __!": speakeasy warning ARAID
"This guy walks into __ ..." ABAR
"We Got Us" Grammy winner, 1960 GORME
1960s-'70s anti-apartheid activist Steve BIKO
1985 Cher film MASK
1998 Sarah McLachlan hit ADIA
Abs paragon SIXPACK
Agt. under Ness TMAN
Altar constellation ARA
And the following, in footnotes ETSEQ
Anklebones TALI
Año part MES
Anthony Hopkins's "Thor" role ODIN
Area 51 phenomena UFOS
Asteroid group named for a love god AMORS
At this point HERE
Attend GOTO
Augurs BODES
Austrian Expressionist Schiele EGON
Ballclub VIP MGR
Belted out SUNG
Boutros-Ghali's successor ANNAN
Brand originally called Froffles EGGO
Break down SOB
Brilliance ECLAT
Bring up RAISE
British prime minister before Brown BLAIR
Bull: Pref TAURO
Carpal tunnel site WRIST
Change for a five ONES
Chef's hat TOQUE
Coffee lover's paradise? THEBREWLAGOON
Coffee that unleashes your inner prehistoric beast? JURASSICPERK
Coffee with a spot in "Guinness World Records"? THEGREATESTJOEONEARTH
Commonly, to Coleridge OFT
Conservative STAID
Contingency plan RECOURSE
Convention label IDTAG
Date opener MONTH
Deface MAR
Did a cobbler's job SOLED
Discard SCRAP
Display, in a way HANG
Duke's era SWING
Earlier AGO
Elaine's last name on "Seinfeld" BENES
Et __ ALII
Etymologist's ref OED
Exists no more ISNT
Express lane unit ITEM
Flying movie monster RODAN
Former Kiss guitarist Frehley ACE
Friend of Job ELIHU
Get on (it) HOPTO
GPS options: Abbr RTES
Heavy load ONUS
Heavy load TON
Help on the way up RUNG
Hopeful lover's pickings PETALS
Immigrant's subj ESL
Instapundit, e.g BLOG
Is unable to CANNOT
It may drop down MENU
It's east of the Bering Strait ALASKA
Italian noblewoman CONTESSA
Jack's predecessor IKE
K-12 ELHI
Lea MEADOW
Clues Answers
Leb. neighbor ISR
Leveling tool EVENER
Like a game in which wins equal losses ZEROSUM
Litigates SUES
Madhouse ZOO
Malone of "Saved!" JENA
Medicinal syrups IPECACS
Melancholy, in Metz TRISTE
Mideast eggplant-flavored coffee? THEPURPLEROASTOFCAIRO
Mil. decoration DSM
Moose mating activity BUGLING
Nagano noodles RAMEN
Nobelist Pavlov IVAN
Not in favor: Abbr OPP
Old manuscript copier SCRIBE
Palin's "Going __" ROGUE
Pallid WAN
Part of OBO OFFER
Peanuts character with "naturally curly hair" FRIEDA
Play with no hand-off SNEAK
Princess who battled Callisto XENA
Probiotic snack YOGURT
Prong TINE
Pull up stakes DECAMP
Push (through) RAM
Quick, in trade names REDI
Rail transport TRAM
Red, perhaps RIPE
Reebok rival NIKE
Regrettably ALAS
Reminiscent of ALA
Repeat ECHO
Resting places TOMBS
Reynolds Wrap maker ALCOA
Rival of Paris ROMEO
Roe v. Wade plaintiff McCorvey NORMA
Scot's refusal NAE
See 53-Across LIGHTNESSOFBEAN
Shakespeare title starter ALLS
Sharpen WHET
Simultaneously ATONEGO
Singer Bryson PEABO
Singer k.d LANG
Stays put WAITS
Steep before cooking MARINATE
Stops HALTS
Stouts, e.g BEERS
Strong suit, slangily BAG
Swear ATTEST
Swelling EDEMA
Tack together BASTE
Terse reproof TSK
Tiny power source ATOM
Tolkien tree creatures ENTS
Transitional state LIMBO
Treeless plain STEPPE
TV schedule abbr TBA
Update, as a web page REFRESH
Van Halen's David Lee __ ROTH
Vast amounts OCEANS
Verdi opera with Desdemona OTELLO
W.'s degree MBA
Was over ENDED
Wedding invite encls SASES
Wedding promise IDO
Wild West coffee to go? PONYESPRESSO
With 65-Across, words describing coffee that's almost too smooth? THEUNBEARABLE
Words after take or tie ABOW
Worthy of MERITING
__ dixit IPSE
__ generis: unique SUI
__ session JAM