L.A. Times Daily - Oct 3 2017

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Clues Answers
"Agreed!" ... and what can be said about the start of the answers to starred clues ITSADEAL
"Parlez-__ français?" VOUS
"SOS" pop group ABBA
"The Simpsons" disco guy STU
*Boot camp newbie RAWRECRUIT
*Defensible alibi GOODEXCUSE
*Grand scheme of things BIGPICTURE
*It may be rational, in math REALNUMBER
90 deg. at the North Pole, e.g LAT
Acquired GOT
Aetna's bus INS
Ancient vase in a museum, say RELIC
Baby whale CALF
Baked desserts PIES
Band tour booking GIG
Basketball transgression FOUL
Boot the ball ERR
Carpet thickness PILE
Cause serious nose-wrinkling REEK
Chinese menu promise NOMSG
Close tightly SEAL
Color of raw silk ECRU
Columbus, by birth GENOAN
Company co-founded by J.P. Morgan USSTEEL
Crowbar, basically LEVER
Dangerous bacterium STAPH
Data to be processed INPUT
Defunct Ford division, for short MERC
From China, say ASIAN
Fuel-efficient Chevy AVEO
Grounded Aussie birds EMUS
Hall of Fame catcher Rodriguez IVAN
Highland tongue ERSE
Identity hider MASK
Island dance HULA
Knee-to-ankle bone TIBIA
Latest craze MANIA
Lay's chips-in-a-can brand STAX
Lessen, as pain EASE
Clues Answers
Make another recording of RETAPE
Manuscript fixer EDITOR
Mark of disgrace STIGMA
MasterCard rival VISA
Michelin product CARTIRE
Nebula Award genre SCIFI
Newton's motion trio LAWS
Not fer AGIN
Ointment additive ALOE
One of Santa's reindeer DASHER
Overly long and generally unproductive activity TIMESINK
Physics work unit ERG
Play the hand you were dealt STANDPAT
Pre-college, briefly ELHI
Preemptive rescue op EVAC
Prefix with scope PERI
Professors' talks LECTURES
Promo on the tube TVAD
Rip-off SCAM
Sculptor's subject TORSO
Simba's playmate NALA
Skull Island ape KONG
Slap in the face INSULT
Smooth engine sound HUM
Spiritual guardian ANGEL
Sport-__: 4 x 4 UTE
Sports shoe brand AVIA
Starts the kitty ANTES
Stop working, as an engine DIE
Those, in Mexico ESOS
Tirades RANTS
Tortoise racer HARE
Truth stretcher LIAR
Undiluted PURE
Untrue FALSE
Vanishing ski lift TBAR
Wear down ERODE
__ Minor: Little Bear URSA
__-Locka, Florida OPA