L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2016

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Clues Answers
"Voulez-vous coucher __ moi?" AVEC
Actor Firth COLIN
Actor Morales ESAI
Aerosol product that will help you fit in in Houston? SPRAYONTEXAN
Airborne pest GNAT
Altar promise IDO
Always EVER
Aran Islands country: Abbr IRE
Architect Frank GEHRY
Athlete lead-in TRI
Beginning of a very thorough biography? FETALEXPOSITION
Cajole COAX
Chopin work ETUDE
Chopping tool HOE
Clever stroke COUP
Clickbait site, as of Sep. 2016 OED
Coffee shop order MOCHA
Conforming to INLINEWITH
Donkeys ASSES
Early 7th-century year DCX
End of a series OMEGA
English county on the North Sea ESSEX
Eponymous Belgian town SPA
Fabled lost mittens punishment NOPIE
Fake POSER
Falling stars that reach the ground METEORITES
French honey AMIE
Go bad ROT
Goody two shoes PRUDE
Group including some Brat Pack members GENX
Gullible GREEN
High wind? OBOE
Hot ANGRY
Identification method TAG
Illicit buzzing in the hive? BEESEXTING
Immune lead-in AUTO
Initial contribution ANTE
Jazz singer James ETTA
Lake makers, at times DAMS
Clues Answers
Like much ore MINED
Many a reggae artist RASTA
Many a typist, nowadays USER
Margarine OLEO
Mazatlán-to-Chihuahua dirección NORTE
Metaphorical hiding place HAT
Monthly pmts. reducer REFI
Nevada was the first st. to allow it OTB
Office staple DESK
One of three in "To be or not to be" IAMB
OPEC member since 1962 LIBYA
Painful spots SORES
Parker's rank in "McHale's Navy": Abbr ENS
Part of CBS: Abbr SYS
Pincered insect EARWIG
Poetic word of order ERE
Priestly garments ALBS
Rehab process DETOX
Religion founded in Persia BAHAI
Residence HOME
Secured, in a way TIED
Shade provider OAK
Six-pack set ABS
Slipshod building addition? RAGGEDYANNEX
Speak or creak VERB
Stage genre DRAMA
Still in play ALIVE
Strands at the lodge, maybe ICESIN
Surplus GLUT
They may deal with freezes TECHS
They sometimes intrude at weddings, and also in this puzzle's theme EXES
Thought IDEA
Tiny bit IOTA
Too ALSO
Too much shooting at the table? EXCESSPOOL
Uber competitors CABS
Unwavering STAID
Vetoes NIXES
Zodiac animal RAM