L.A. Times Daily - Dec 16 2015

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Clues Answers
"Make it happen" DOSO
"Respect for Acting" author Hagen UTA
"Star Wars" power, with "the" FORCE
"Teenage Dream" singer Perry KATY
"You don't say!" DUH
2015 World Series player, for short NYMET
Adjuration PLEA
Afore ERE
Apelike SIMIAN
Avoid SIDESTEP
Bedelia of kiddie lit AMELIA
Beehive State college squad UTES
Best of the best ATEAM
Boss on "The Dukes of Hazzard" HOGG
Bud's partner LOU
Bumpkin YAHOO
Capital of Samoa APIA
Clad ATTIRED
Classic car REO
Coastal bird ERN
Coleridge work RIME
Comical FUNNY
Contented sound AHH
Croft of video games LARA
Down-and-out NEEDY
Emerges COMESOUT
Exude EMIT
Eye source for a dramatic cauldron NEWT
Firmed up, as plans SET
Gershwin's preludes, e.g. ... and the starts of 18-, 24-, 39- and 50-Across PIANOPIECES
Half a pop quartet MAMAS
Idolize ADORE
Irritate IRK
Major court rulings KEYDECISIONS
Mardi Gras follower LENT
Marriage doc CERT
Meat GIST
Medicinal houseplant ALOE
Clues Answers
Michael of Monty Python PALIN
Microsoft Surface alternative IPAD
Mine entrance ADIT
More mature OLDER
Moriarty's creator DOYLE
Nitwit DOLT
Not promising BLEAK
Nothing NIL
Old Testament twin ESAU
Olympic event featuring a 16-pound ball HAMMERTHROW
Pal to text "<3" symbols to BFF
Part of JFK: Abbr INIT
Particle physics concept STRINGTHEORY
Plant part ROOT
Puerto __ RICO
Reduce, __, Recycle REUSE
Schools EDUCATES
Screen door stuff MESH
Scrooge interjection BAH
Selective way to order ALACARTE
Short list shortener ETC
Short list shortener ETAL
Sit attachment? COM
Skin blemish ACNE
Sleep stage REM
Spanish pronoun ESO
Speedster's motto PEDALTOTHEMETAL
Stop on Chicago's Blue Line OHARE
Strong POTENT
Tried hard STROVE
Vacation plan TRIP
Vouches for ATTESTS
What a colon means, in analogies ISTO
When a "Macbeth" witch says, "Something wicked this way comes" ACTIV
Word before man or maiden IRON
__ farm ANT
__ Road: WWII supply route to China BURMA
__-Rooter ROTO