L.A. Times Daily - Feb 6 2015

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Clues Answers
"Avatar" race NAVI
"Easy to be Hard" musical HAIR
"Father of," in Arabic ABU
"Give it __" AREST
"Ray Donovan" star Schreiber LIEV
*1-/53-Down SASS
*1-/9-Across HEAP
*16-/64-Down AVID
*73-/75-Across THIN
1985 Chemistry co-Nobelist Jerome KARLE
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient OPRAH
Adams' "Nixon in China," for one OPERA
Allow to attack LETAT
Always EVER
Aptly named bird SWIFT
Bind CEMENT
British pen pal's last letter? ZED
Bushels ALOT
Business LINE
Casting aid REEL
Cheese holder RITZ
Choice to sleep on SERTA
Constellation near Scorpius ARA
Converse TALK
Dagwood's annoying little friend ELMO
Declare AVOW
Didn't trick, maybe TREATED
DIII doubled MVI
Distillery founder John DEWAR
Diva highlights SOLI
French vineyard CRU
Friend of Che FIDEL
Gallic girlfriend AMIE
Handled vessel KETTLE
Idée source TETE
Identical SAME
Inflict on DOTO
Instrument to which an orchestra tunes OBOE
Irritates MIFFS
Italian almond cookies AMARETTI
Clues Answers
Jane Eyre's charge ADELE
Knish filling POTATO
Like "la vida" in a Ricky Martin hit LOCA
Mutual fund charge LOAD
Nocturnal critter COON
Numismatist's find RARECOIN
Orch. section STR
Overdue, as pay BACK
Part of a Buddhist monk's ordination TONSURE
Pitchers' places TENTS
Place where cheap shots are a good thing CLINIC
Play with, in a way PAWAT
Pouches SACS
Prayer set to music by Schubert and Gounod AVEMARIA
Predicament BOAT
Prefix with plasm ENDO
Puccini's "Vissi __" DARTE
Reactor part CORE
Reliant soul TRUSTER
Ridge just below the surface REEF
Roxy Music co-founder ENO
Rte. through Houston ITEN
Russia-China border river AMUR
See 32-Across FRACTURE
See 62-Down SAD
Site of unexpected change? SOFA
Source ROOT
Stern HARD
Stirs ADOS
Unfastens LOOSENS
Up and down, say: Abbr OPP
Up to it ABLE
West Indian folk religion OBEAH
Where Goliath was slain ELAH
Where to find a hero DELI
White-faced cattle breed HEREFORD
Will Smith title role ALI
With 29-Across, Balkan city on the Danube NOVI
With 49-Across, bad break ... and what each answer to a starred clue creates vis-Г -vis the answers that define it COMPOUND
__Sweet: aspartame NUTRA