L.A. Times Daily - Jul 5 2007

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Clues Answers
"I Like Ike" initials DDE
"Looks like trouble!" UHOH
"South Pacific" song subject DAME
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" science officer DAX
"What's the __?" DIF
1972 Chairman Mao visitor PRESIDENTNIXON
Agreeable to FOR
Aims that too often miss the mark BESTINTENTIONS
Aliens, briefly ETS
Aswan's river NILE
Bahamian island chain BIMINI
Bandage name ACE
Banter JEST
Bit of a joule ERG
Button on many a radio SNOOZE
Canon ending IZE
Cereal grain OAT
Clare's land EIRE
Common refrain that's a hint to this puzzle's theme EIEIO
Conflicting reports MIXEDNEWS
Dalai Lama, e.g. EXILE
Dench of "84 Charing Cross Road" JUDI
DOE part: Abbr. ENER
Eastern sash OBI
English novelist Glyn ELINOR
Fairy tale food PORRIDGE
Fast-__: certain restaurant FOODER
French mine? AMOI
Frond bearer FERN
Gem units: Abbr. CTS
Humongous WHOPPING
In sorrier shape WORSE
It may be at the end of the line: Abbr. STA
It parallels a radius ULNA
Jacket info, often BIO
Jungle queen of comics SHEENA
Lee with an Oscar ANG
Clues Answers
Letter-shaped hardware TNUT
Lipton alternative SALADA
Memorable TV sign-off NANUNANU
Mer land ILE
Milton's "Paradise Lost," e.g. EPOS
N.J. local government units TWPS
Neutral hue ECRU
Not hold a candle (to) BEINFERIOR
Old-fashioned strolling accessories CANES
Otherwise IFNOT
Pink-slipped AXED
Prominent proboscises SNOUTS
QBs' goals TDS
Quack's solution ELIXIR
Reared BRED
Rest period SLEEP
Rhodes with a scholarship CECIL
Rob Roy et al. SCOTSMEN
Rolls filler PETROL
Rtes. off the beaten path RFDS
Scow TUB
See 25-Across BORE
Singer with the 1996 Grammy-winning album "Falling Into You" CELINEDION
Something stereotypical men don't do GETDIRECTIONS
Spent time in a salon, maybe TANNED
Spoke RUNG
Swindle FLEECE
Tabloid pair ITEM
Teased RIBBED
Tick bite repellent DEET
Tolkien tree being ENT
Tonsillitis cousin STREP
Want DESIRE
Wine bouquet NOSE
With 17-Across, abrupt estuarial water movement TIDAL
Wrote briefly SENTANOTE
__ column SPINAL