L.A. Times Daily - Jan 2 2014

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Clues Answers
"2001" computer HAL
"Jeopardy!" monitor display: Abbr ANS
"My suspicions are confirmed!" IKNEWIT
"One L" author TUROW
"Rag Mop" singing brothers AMES
"Stupid me!" IMAFOOL
"__ down to the seas again": Masefield IMUST
"__ you ready yet?" ARENT
*Chinese restaurant staple WONTONSOUP
*Horror film shapeshifter WEREWOLF
*Ramshackle community SHANTYTOWN
*Sweet melons CANTALOUPES
*The Prairie State ILLINOIS
Agile deer ROES
At a great height FARUP
Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue CONTRACTION
Behind AFTER
Biblical words of comfort FEARNOT
Blue-flowering plant used in herbal medicine GENTIAN
Braz. neighbor URU
Brief writer: Abbr ATT
Broad bean FAVA
Broadway attractions SHOWS
Building group TENANTS
Burden ONUS
CD return INT
City that was the source of the marble for Michelangelo's "David" CARRARA
Clark's "Mogambo" co-star AVA
Colleague of Elena and Antonin SONIA
Company that now owns Dewar's, Bombay Sapphire and Grey Goose BACARDI
Computer key TAB
Easy putt TAPIN
Figured out how SAWAWAY
Forest mom DOE
Galeón cargo ORO
Give quite the earful SHOUTAT
Go (for) VIE
Hale and hearty FIT
Clues Answers
Hand or foot UNIT
Intense hunger YEN
It comes down hard HAIL
Kitten cry MEWL
Kublai __ KHAN
Lariat loop NOOSE
Like some elephants ASIATIC
Lip-smacking TASTY
Movement-sensing game console WII
Musician Sean Taro __ Lennon ONO
Often-torn trouser part KNEE
One with a muzzle, maybe BITER
Pal of Piglet ROO
Potential dupe LIVEONE
Princess provoker PEA
Producing intense feeling EMOTIVE
Remote button MENU
Samaritan's offering AID
Sand dollar habitats SEABEDS
SeaWorld swimmers ORCAS
Secretly keeps in the email loop, briefly BCCS
Short shortcut? RTE
Show of hands? OVATION
Smooth moves SEGUES
Some Clue cards WEAPONS
Some words in baby books? FIRSTS
Soul, in Somme AME
Squeeze (out) EKE
Swordplay memento SCAR
Taylor of fashion ANN
Towering BIG
Try to persuade WOO
Turner and others IKES
Warm-water shark MAKO
Web NET
Well-mannered GENTEEL
Woody Allen asset WIT
Your, to Pierre TES