L.A. Times Daily - Dec 22 2016

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Clues Answers
"Cuchi-cuchi" celebrity CHARO
"Miss __ Playhouse": jazz CD for kids ELLAS
"Tricked you!" NOT
"You __ one!" OWEME
Ages EONS
Akhenaten's queen NEFERTITI
Altar in the sky ARA
Andean tuber OCA
Become a member, in Manchester ENROL
Beginning of space? AERO
Beyond silly IDIOTIC
Blood system letters ABO
Butte-to-Helena dir NNE
California's __ Verdes Peninsula PALOS
Comes (from) HAILS
Commercial prefix meaning "long-lasting" DURA
Conclusion preceder IFSO
Conductor Klemperer or an emperor OTTO
Curaçao's capital WILLEMSTAD
Cut SLICEDINTO
Detestable sort TOAD
Dignify EXALT
Disencumbers RIDS
Family babysitter NANA
Fireworks reaction OOH
Fishing, perhaps ASEA
From the top ANEW
Golfe de la Gonâve country HAITI
Grilled, in Mexican fare ASADA
Hard-rock link ASA
Introductory words for each set of puzzle circles INTHISCORNER
Jazz Age toon BOOP
Late 19th-century presidential monogram CAA
Least lit DARKEST
Mantegna's "Criminal Minds" role ROSSI
Melville novel OMOO
Mete out ALLOT
Modest skirt MAXI
Nantes nothing RIEN
Clues Answers
NFL Network analyst Michael __ IRVIN
Ordeal at the dentist's office ROOTCANAL
Org. with a snake in its logo AMA
Outlaw Belle STARR
Oxygen network co-founder OPRAH
PBS funder NEA
Perfume ESSENCE
Place to find bullets LIST
Places SETS
Prize for today's puzzle's circles CHAMPIONSHIP
Proverb ending? IAL
Proverbial deserter RAT
Pupil's place UVEA
Radical '70s org SLA
Really enjoyed ATEUP
Reformed demon on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ANYA
Roast, in Rouen ROTI
Sacks FIRES
Sea that's a shrinking lake ARAL
See 5-Across FIGHT
Send MAILOFF
Singer Payne of One Direction LIAM
Slasher film sequel of 2005 SAWII
Soup container THERMOS
Southwestern plain LLANO
Staffers of Apple's Genius Bar TECHS
Starters ATEAM
Subdue, perhaps TASE
Tally SUM
Teen superhero's family KENTS
Titled rapper DRE
Turkmenistan neighbor IRAN
Unable to make ends meet NEEDY
Unit of work ERG
Up to, commercially TIL
Verbal shrug MEH
Want-ad letters EEO
With 71-Across, event for today's puzzle's circles TITLE
__ about ONOR