L.A. Times Daily - Dec 8 2012

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Clues Answers
"Now __ the one half-world / Nature seems dead": Macbeth OER
"The Colossus" poet PLATH
"Waiting for __": Time magazine cover of 5/25/1992 PEROT
Arthurian chronicler Sir Thomas __ MALORY
Blanc and Pelat MONTS
Bring up the rear LAG
Captain in an 1870 sci-fi classic NEMO
Cared for TREATED
Cast off inhibitions LETONESHAIRDOWN
City near Sundance PROVO
Coblenz conjunction UND
Countrymen who kick off their rainy season with a Rocket Festival LAOTIANS
Cube root of ventisette TRE
Cyclist's challenge GRADE
Does over REMODELS
Dorm room buy DESKLAMP
Fall guys GOATS
Film noir setting TENEMENT
First dog walker, maybe SASHA
First major Civil War battle on Union soil ANTIETAM
Flees BEATSIT
Flight board status ONTIME
Florida's __ Beach VERO
Foe of Robert the Bruce EDWARDII
Frankie Carle signature song that became a #1 hit SUNRISESERENADE
Friend of Oliver J. Dragon KUKLA
Genre that influenced Paul Simon's "Graceland" album AFROPOP
Got out of a shelter ADOPTED
Grandiose, as rhetoric TUMID
Helter-skelter ALLOVERTHEPLACE
Irk GETTO
Italicized ASLANT
Itinerary fig ETD
Jabber at the table? TINE
Clues Answers
Ken Jenkins's "Scrubs" role KELSO
Kicked off the stage, in a game show GONGED
Lake named for a tribe HURON
Land and buildings REALTY
Lionfish's weapon TOXIN
Not as forward SHYER
Notre Dame squad, familiarly, with "the" IRISH
One who needs a second helping? DUELER
Opposite of get tough GOSOFT
Opposite of whenever ATONCE
Optimism HOPE
Peppy ALIVE
Pirate's recess COVE
Popular household reference since the 1930s, as it's commonly known THEJOYOFCOOKING
Press IRON
Prison periods TERMS
Queen's genre MYSTERY
Redirecting sign NOEXIT
Rustler's rope LARIAT
Screenwriter called the "Shakespeare of Hollywood" BENHECHT
Scribble JOT
Sidekick role for Bruce Lee KATO
Slender watercourse RIVULET
Take part JOININ
Tip of one's tongue? ESE
Unyielding FIRM
Visibly touched TEARY
Volkswagen compact JETTA
Warmish TEPID
When Santa calls "Vixen," in poetry FOURTHLY
Wool-gathering aid SHEARS
__ Agnew, singer with Celtic Woman CHLOE
__ Bo TAE
__-Lay FRITO