L.A. Times Daily - Nov 2 2013

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"Cotton Candy" musician HIRT
"The Diana Chronicles" author Brown TINA
2012, e.g LEAPYEAR
Arabic for "struggle" JIHAD
Author of the children's book "The Saga of Baby Divine" BETTEMIDLER
Bates College locale MAINE
Bottom topper TALC
Bruin great ORR
Cabinet part SECRETARY
Cologne article DER
Criticize RIP
Discharged British soldier DEMOB
Eat HAVE
Electronic music genre TECHNO
Equally hot ASMAD
Food safety aid MEATTHERMOMETER
Fulfills a need AVAILS
Go (on) dully DRONE
Highland rejections NAES
Humane org SPCA
Indians' home, on scoreboards CLE
Its results commonly fall between 70 and 130 IQTEST
Key for some clarinets EFLAT
Language of software engineers JAVA
Like some humor WRY
Major finale? ETTE
Make potable, as seawater DESALT
Makes hot ANGERS
MIT Sloan degree MBA
More futile VAINER
Name on a WWII flier ENOLA
Newspaper supply INK
Nickname for Leona Helmsley QUEENOFMEAN
Novelist Turgenev IVAN
Nurturing MOTHERLY
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O or A, e.g ALER
Oarlock pin THOLE
Oil holder EASEL
Old-school lament EGADS
Panache STYLE
Place for an adder? TENS
Plant activity: Abbr MFG
Princeton Review subj GRE
Recoil WINCE
Ring ENCIRCLE
Roxy Music alum ENO
Salts TARS
Shade NUANCE
Shilling spender KENYAN
Sierra follower, in the NATO alphabet TANGO
Sign of summer LEO
Singer born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin ENYA
Sirius B, for one WHITEDWARFSTAR
Small dam WEIR
Some legal cases ATTACHES
Staircase support NEWEL
Surgery tool LASER
Take inventory? SHOPLIFT
Therapy goals REHABS
They get high on occasion SOPRANOS
They included Chopin's "Prelude in E Minor," in a film title FIVEEASYPIECES
Took in MISLED
Tribal emblem TOTEM
Valiant HEROIC
Venus counterpart APHRODITE
Wheels CAR
White House chief of staff after Haldeman HAIG
Whole lot SCAD
Wood shop device CCLAMP
Yearbook sect SRS