L.A. Times Daily - Dec 16 2016

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Clues Answers
"Chasing Pavements" singer ADELE
"CSI" setting DNALAB
"Don't waste your money on that pendant"? LOCKETVETO
"What __ you thinking?" WERE
Aviation pioneer Sikorsky IGOR
Beginning ASOF
Beginning to cure? PEDI
Bird that's a national symbol KIWI
Chisholm Trail city WACO
Comforter DUVET
Composer Khachaturian ARAM
Daring exploit GEST
Discounted buy CASE
Draped garment TOGA
Driver's gadget GOLFTEE
Early or late hr., depending ONEAM
Eddie __, detective involved in the actual "French Connection" EGAN
Elaborate in design ROCOCO
Excavating aid BACKHOE
Exec's reminder MEMO
Fair-hiring agcy EEOC
Former constellation that included Vela (the sails) ARGO
Go on LAST
Hammock? LOLLINGPLACE
Henry Ford, e.g EPONYM
Hills of Rome, e.g SEPTET
Hive member DRONE
Insulated cable CORD
It's heard in a herd MOO
Large soda bottle label word LITER
Long bout SIEGE
Missouri river OSAGE
Mountain air YODEL
Multiple Emmy-winning legal drama LALAW
Not a hit, usually BSIDE
Offhand greeting OHHI
One eschewing leather, perhaps VEGAN
Online service option CHAT
Opposite of bumpy EVEN
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Pants part KNEE
Party time, casually BDAY
Peseta replacer EURO
Presidential nickname ABE
Pruning ideology? LOPCULTURE
Pub pick PALEALE
Pulitzer-winning author James AGEE
Purpose USE
Quiets, in a way OILS
Quirky ODD
Sales figure GROSS
Satisfied sounds AHS
Sci. concerned with biodiversity ECOL
See 61-Down SEA
Side in a decades-long war PEPSI
Skilled ABLE
Some TVs RCAS
Sorbonne student ELEVE
Source of flowing water OPENTAP
Source of tweets NEST
Spinner in a numbers game? LOTTERYWHEEL
Split-resistant wood ELM
Sport that hints at this puzzle's theme POLO
Spring bloomer TULIP
Square figure AREA
Start of something big? MAXI
Stress TAX
Sure-footed critters ASSES
Test pattern INKBLOT
Think alike AGREE
Thorough investigation PROBE
Tied LACED
Trot, say GAIT
U-verse provider ATT
Usually disappointed one LOSER
Vegetation in underwater forests KELP
When repeated, Cult Jam singer LISA
With 33-Down, part of it is now a desert ARAL
Zigzagged WOVE