L.A. Times Daily - Dec 7 2012

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Clues Answers
"Because freedom can't protect itself" org ACLU
"Categorical imperative" philosopher KANT
"Come Sail Away" band STYX
"New" currency replaced by the Congolese franc ZAIRE
"Night Moves" singer SEGER
"Pork and Beans" band WEEZER
1961 record breaker MARIS
Ages EONS
All over again ANEW
Amity PEACE
Ancient assembly area AGORA
Ancient theaters ODEA
Approach DRAWNEAR
Artificial ERSATZ
Ate at ERODED
Aussie's school UNI
Bars at the end CODA
Big key ENTER
Binge JAG
Boost, with "up" LEG
Builders of stepped pyramids MAYAS
Bygone blade SNEE
Character piece? TRAIT
Come out with SAY
Compass hdg ENE
Contract extras, and read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme ADDENDA
Copycat APER
Crude letters OPEC
Cuban patriot Martí JOSE
Doing the job ONIT
Enjoying "O patria mia"? HEARINGAIDA
Every other hurricane HER
Eye sore STYE
Fade, maybe WEAR
Family nickname MAMA
Fight back, say REACT
Frantic FRENZIED
Front-end alignment TOEIN
Furthest from the hole, in golf AWAY
Clues Answers
Gay leader? ENOLA
Half of dix CINQ
Heraldry border ORLE
Invierno month ENERO
Israel's Dayan MOSHE
Kennedy and Waters ETHELS
Knee-slapper RIOT
Latish lunch hr ONEPM
Layer PLY
Legal title: Abbr ESQ
Let out, say ALTER
Like a piece of cake SIMPLE
Like old apples MEALY
Literary collections ANAS
Nicole's "Moulin Rouge!" co-star EWAN
Nothing special AVERAGE
One may be penciled in EYEBROW
One of five Norwegian kings OLAV
Prima __ DONNAS
Roast, in Rhone ROTI
Rockefeller Center statue ATLAS
Samson's end? ITE
Signaled one's arrival RANG
Slurpee alternative ICEE
Software product with a cup-and-saucer logo JAVA
Solstice month JUNE
Some of its ads feature a pig named Maxwell GEICO
Spot a flamboyant singer? SIGHTGAGA
Star in Lyra VEGA
Supply electricity to a California city? POWERNAPA
Time to retire NIGHT
Top of a form, perhaps LINEA
Tram load ORE
Trapper's tool? RADAR
Triple-A, at times RATER
Vichy waters EAUX
Weather may delay them: Abbr ETAS
Wharton hero FROME
Whomping actor Eric? SMOKINGBANA