L.A. Times Daily - Dec 26 2017

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Clues Answers
"Tao Te Ching" philosopher LAOTSE
"The Merchant of Venice" heiress PORTIA
"__-ho!": "Everybody lift together!" HEAVE
Actor Brad PITT
Air filter acronym HEPA
Anaheim MLB team, in crawl lines LAA
Annoying IRKSOME
App interruptions ADS
Balance sheet items ASSETS
Baseball's Felipe or Moises ALOU
Be unsuccessful FAIL
Board game cubes DICE
Car accessory that may be faux leather SEATCOVER
Champagne cocktail MIMOSA
Chocolate treat BROWNIE
Cleopatra killer ASP
Codgers COOTS
Cuts for agts PCTS
Danson of "The Good Place" TED
Dogs from Japan AKITAS
Ensnared INATRAP
Ex-Soviet leader Brezhnev LEONID
French friend AMI
Glowing barbecue lump REDHOTCOAL
Got emotional, with "up" TEARED
Greek salad ingredient GOATCHEESE
Hoppy beer, for short IPA
Humbly accept blame EATDIRT
Jamaican term for hot chocolate COCOATEA
Kicked out EVICTED
Leftover food bits ORTS
Letter before omega PSI
Longed (for) PINED
Look online SEARCH
Lubricate again REOIL
Management deg MBA
Miami Sound Machine singer Gloria ESTEFAN
Clues Answers
Minor fight SETTO
Mixed martial arts org UFC
Multi-car collisions PILEUPS
Norwegian patron saint OLAF
Opening word for Ali Baba SESAME
Painter or sculptor ARTIST
Pledge OATH
Poet for whom the Edgar Awards are named POE
Practical thinker REALIST
Prepared (oneself), as for a shock BRACED
Records again RETAPES
Republic between Spain and France ANDORRA
Rock singer Rose AXL
Rum cocktails MAITAIS
Scheduled leaving hr ETD
Scrutinized, with "over" PORED
Souse's woe DTS
Specialized market segment NICHE
Start of a magical chant ABRA
Stormy weather sound THUNDER
Suffix with hip or tip STER
Sunrise direction EAST
Swindles FLEECES
The "A" in 59-Across ALE
Traitor, and a literal hint to this puzzle's circles TURNCOAT
Two foursomes OCTET
Tyrannosaurus __ REX
Unlisted stuff OTHERS
Use a stopwatch for TIME
White House no VETO
Winter coaster SLED
Wolf's cry HOWL
Wrist-to-elbow bone ULNA
Young newt EFT
__ kwon do TAE
__ majesty: high treason LESE
__ pal GAL