L.A. Times Daily - Dec 24 2011

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Clues Answers
"Chariots of Fire" executive producer DODIFAYED
"Double Fantasy" artist ONO
"Friends" actress, familiarly JEN
"Help me" INEEDYOU
"Sharky's Machine" author DIEHL
"The Complaint of Peace" essayist, 1521 ERASMUS
"Tumbleweeds" cartoonist TKRYAN
"__ out!" YER
1980s Screen Actors Guild president EDASNER
2011 Canadian Open champ Sean OHAIR
Annual All-American Soap Box Derby site AKRONOHIO
Architectural support LINTEL
Asian swingers ORANGS
Baker's meas TSPS
Big name in insurance AETNA
Blessed event? SNEEZE
Buffalo skaters SABRES
Candy heart phrase BEMINE
Cannes duo ENS
Cardplayer's request DEALMEIN
Certain protests SITINS
Checkout counter newspaper fodder SCANDALS
Classroom concern TARDINESS
Cochlea shape SPIRAL
Cologne conclusion ENDE
Court figs DAS
Deliberate SLEEPONIT
E-7 Army personnel SFCS
Eastern Med. country LEB
Fancy layer GILT
Fruit in a knock-knock joke ORANGE
Giant in a 2000 merger AOL
Gnarly RAD
Gulf of Guinea country NIGERIA
Healer BALM
Italy's Como, per esempio LAGO
Clues Answers
Keyboardist who founded Return to Forever COREA
Lacking SANS
Lacking a partner ODD
Mint family herb MARJORAM
Negatives NOS
New Deal home loan gp NHA
Nighttime disturbance, at times SNORE
Old French capital? FRANC
One may be marching BRASSBAND
One of two in a historic 1869 Utah meeting IRONHORSE
Ophelia's niece, in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" EVA
Picnic trash COBS
Pmt.-lowering option REFI
Poe poem written at the time of the California Gold Rush ELDORADO
Puck's eatery SPAGO
Raise ELEVATE
Ranch closing? ERO
Rembrandt van __ RYN
Rigs on the road SEMIS
Ring support OLE
Rug with a long pile RYA
Sends TRANSMITS
Spread __ EAGLE
Staying power LEGS
Suds source SOAP
Totally STONECOLD
Town across the Connecticut River from Springfield, Mass AGAWAM
Trendy HIP
TV Stone Age pet DINO
Two-time U.S. Open champ AGASSI
Type of ballot ABSENTEE
Unassuming MODEST
Underground home WARREN
Veep before LBJ RMN
Web issues EZINES
Wee hr ONEAM