L.A. Times Daily - Mar 8 2016

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
"Chestnuts roasting" spot ... and a hint to a divided word found in the answers to starred clues OPENFIRE
"I'm with you!" AMEN
"The Elements of Bridge" author Charles GOREN
"The Star-Spangled Banner" contraction OER
"What was __ do?" ITO
"__ Theme": "Doctor Zhivago" song LARAS
'40s spy org OSS
*Enjoy, with "in" FINDPLEASURE
*Kids' introduction to a full school day FIRSTGRADE
*Motorist's headache FLATTIRE
*Recap on a sports crawl line FINALSCORE
*Red-carpet movie event FILMPREMIERE
1921 robot play RUR
7UP rival SPRITE
Aswan High Dam river NILE
Ballerina's rail BARRE
Bordeaux bye ADIEU
Burglary, for one CRIME
Censor's cover-up BLEEP
Character weaknesses FLAWS
Commonly purple bloom IRIS
Concert auditoriums HALLS
Counting everything INALL
Data to be entered INPUT
Desperate DIRE
DNA sample source SALIVA
Dutch South African BOER
Either of two Henry VIII wives ANNE
Election surprises UPSETS
Evergreen shrubs YEWS
Govt. security TBILL
Hang loosely, as on a clothesline DRAPE
Hunter constellation ORION
Ill-suited INAPT
It's not right LEFT
January, to José ENERO
Just hanging around IDLE
Lacking light DIM
Clues Answers
Lemon peel ZEST
Less dangerous SAFER
Like much sushi RAW
Lipton packet TEABAG
List-ending abbr ETAL
Make a decision OPT
Mall directory listings STORES
Massage responses AHS
New Zealand native MAORI
Not even once NEVER
Once again ANEW
Part of DJIA: Abbr AVG
Peeled with a knife PARED
Pennsylvania port ERIE
Penny pincher MISER
Phi __ Kappa BETA
Physics class subject ATOM
Punk TWERP
Religious sch SEM
Rodeo rope LASSO
Set of lines on personal stationery HEADER
Sharpen the image in the viewfinder FOCUS
Shriner's hat FEZ
Succotash bean LIMA
Swimming event MEET
Three-time Wimbledon champ Chris EVERT
Took wing FLEW
Toward the back of the boat AREAR
Tree of Life garden EDEN
TV studio sign ONAIR
Up in the air IFFY
Vegan no-no MEAT
Victimized lieutenant in "Othello" CASSIO
Vietnamese New Year TET
Wee hill builder ANT
Within reach ATHAND
Wrinkle-resistant synthetic ORLON
__ list: chores TODO