L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2013

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Clues Answers
"57 Varieties" brand HEINZ
"Snowy" heron EGRET
"Star Wars" warrior JEDI
"Why bother?" ITSHOPELESS
"Why me?" WHATHAVEIDONE
"Why not?" GIVEITASHOT
"Why worry?" FORGETABOUTIT
"You missed the deadline" TOOLATE
"You __ busted!" ARESO
90-degree pipe piece ELL
Abel's older brother CAIN
Baked treat often wrapped in fluted paper CUPCAKE
Balkan native SERB
Beast with one hump or two CAMEL
Big name in hotels and crackers RITZ
Bit of Morse code DIT
Bloke CHAP
Blubber BAWL
Bout enders, briefly KOS
Brewer's kiln OAST
Carps at NAGS
Chimpanzee, e.g APE
Civil War prez ABE
Class for potential painters ARTI
Clinton's vice president GORE
Cold bagful for a party ICE
Container for Peter Pan JAR
Do-it-yourselfer's book genre HOWTO
Drooling toon dog ODIE
Entire WHOLE
Equally strange ASODD
Eucalyptus-eating marsupial KOALA
Fenway team, for short SOX
Fighter's org WBA
Gem weight unit CARAT
Gizmo GADGET
Grand Roman home VILLA
Greenish-blue AQUA
Hiker's route PATH
Clues Answers
Ice fishing access HOLE
Indigenous Alaskans ALEUTS
Island dance HULA
Johnson of "Laugh-In" ARTE
Judd of country music NAOMI
Kick out EXPEL
List-shortening abbr ETAL
Logician's proof ending QED
Lubricates OILS
Musical Merman ETHEL
Neat as __ APIN
Neeson of "Schindler's List" LIAM
Northwestern pear BOSC
Old videotape type VHS
Partner of haw HEM
Past prisoner, for short EXCON
Pay attention to HEED
Pet food brand with a ProActive Health variety IAMS
Phone screening service CALLERID
Pier WHARF
Plane for a small airstrip, briefly STOL
Prefix for a lifesaving "Pen" EPI
Purr former CAT
Red root vegetable BEET
Remainder REST
Residue in a smoker's tray ASH
Revolutionary Guevara CHE
Salt, on the Seine SEL
Spoon-bending Geller URI
Stow cargo LADE
Stretch out ELONGATE
Students' hurdles TESTS
Suffix with Wyoming ITE
Three-line Japanese poem HAIKU
Tiny Dickens boy TIM
Trivial gripe NIT
Underwater experiment site SEALAB
Wheel-supporting shaft AXLE
Without footwear UNSHOD