L.A. Times Daily - Dec 22 2015

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Clues Answers
"At Last" singer James ETTA
"Calm down" TAKEITEASY
"Dexter" network, briefly SHO
"Later, dahling!" CIAO
"Yikes!" EGAD
"You're __ 30 seconds!": backstage warning ONIN
"__ Buy Me Love": Beatles hit CANT
1980s missile prog SDI
Adorable ASCUTEASABUTTON
Ancient France GAUL
Another time AGAIN
Ark measurement CUBIT
Austin __: Tennessee university PEAY
Bar in a bathtub SOAP
BBC nature series with the episodes "Jungles" and "Mountains" PLANETEARTH
Birthday number AGE
Bog MARSH
Bouquet for a señorita ROSAS
Café lightener LECHE
Change for a five ONES
Chatter YAK
Chicago daily, familiarly TRIB
Computer fodder INPUT
Con game SCAM
CVS pickups RXS
Davis of "Commander in Chief" GEENA
Delayed flight, e.g LATEARRIVAL
Dips for tortilla chips SALSAS
Driver's warning BEEP
Dropped the ball ERRED
Eye, poetically ORB
Figure of speech TROPE
Film critic, at times RATER
Five-and-__ store TEN
Former Russian rulers TSARS
Garden spigot attachment HOSE
GI show sponsor USO
Greek sandwiches GYROS
Ice cream maker Joseph EDY
Clues Answers
Ingrid's role in "Casablanca" ILSA
Inventor Howe ELIAS
Kept from squeaking OILED
Lakeside stalk REED
Letter after sigma TAU
Many miles away AFAR
Not as simple to understand DEEPER
Not throw out REUSE
Optimism HOPE
Ph.D. candidate, e.g POSTGRAD
Pint or pixel UNIT
Pitcher with a flared spout EWER
Prefix with space AERO
Rapper Dr. __ DRE
Relating to roughness or smoothness, say TEXTURAL
Riviera film festival site CANNES
Rock's Jethro __ TULL
Rowboat pair OARS
Salacious look LEER
Shock STUN
Sidestep AVERT
Simple to understand CLEAR
Sleeping or slot follower CAR
Something to stick with? PASTE
Spyglass user EYER
Stare in disbelief GAPE
Starter's gun PISTOL
String quartet instrument VIOLA
They're way more than social drinkers SOTS
Thin nails BRADS
This, to Esteban ESTA
Thomas __ Edison ALVA
Traffic light symbol ARROW
Trim, as a photo CROP
Under the weather SICK
Warm cupful ... and, literally, what's hidden in the answers to 17-, 23-, 37- and 45-Across ASPOTOFTEA
Workers who cross picket lines SCABS
__-relief BAS
__-Seltzer ALKA