L.A. Times Daily - Feb 24 2012

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Clues Answers
"Take it easy!" WHOA
5'7" Spud who won an NBA Slam Dunk contest WEBB
Ability to detect a certain orientation GAYDAR
Acknowledgments YESES
Actress Thurman UMA
Artist's pad LOFT
Auto club employees MAPPERS
Ave. paralleling Park LEX
Balls ORBS
Basie's "__'Clock Jump" ONEO
Bavarian carp? ACH
Boxing statistic REACH
Buckaroo at sea? LOSTCOWBOY
Buried treasure site, often ISLE
Case workers, briefly TECS
Crop production toast? CORNCHEERS
Dance and theater in Texas? DALLASARTS
Debate choices TOPICS
Declining from old age SENILE
Defunct Olympic sport POLO
Dieter's snack? THREECHIPS
Disintegrates ROTS
Do some glass cutting, perhaps ETCH
Dr. Mom's forte TLC
Fail in business FOLD
Friend of Fidel CHE
Goes astray ERRS
Golden __ AGERS
Gray gp CSA
H.S. sophs may take it PSAT
Hot tea hazard SCALD
Iberian river EBRO
Intersection where cabs hang out? TAXICORNER
It covers all the bases TARP
It follows John ACTS
It has banks in Germany and Poland ODER
Joie de vivre GUSTO
Knotted TIED
Clues Answers
Lover of Psyche EROS
Maternity ward? LABORHOUSE
Mistletoe piece SPRIG
New Mexico ski resort TAOS
Not like at all HATE
Not own outright, with "on" OWE
Ojibwa home WIGWAM
On __ with APAR
One giving pep talks between acts of "Carmen"? OPERACOACH
Pacific dance HULA
Part of MS-DOS: Abbr SYST
Pews, at times? AMENSTANDS
Piano sonatas, usually SOLI
Pique WHET
Played with, in a way PAWEDAT
PLO part ORG
Raised entrance area STOOP
Red areas, once: Abbr SSRS
Relatively cool red giant SSTAR
Rice from New Orleans ANNE
Saint in red CLAUS
See 24-Down SHOWS
Soul ANIMA
Stray chasers SCATS
Switz. neighbor AUS
Telegraph sound DIT
Thailand neighbor LAOS
The greater part MOST
Tropical ring-tailed critter COATI
Tuna of the Pacific AHI
Useless footwear ODDSHOE
Waist-length jackets ETONS
With 35-Down, fairs, and a hint to making sense of this puzzle's pairs of adjacent 10-letter answers TRADE
Woolly grazers EWES
Words before coming or out HASIT
Young pig SHOAT
__ in Charlie CAS
__-1: "Ghostbusters" auto ECTO