L.A. Times Daily - Dec 21 2013

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Clues Answers
"A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" author STEIN
"A Writer's Life" author TALESE
"For here __ go?" ORTO
"Hold your horses!" JUSTASEC
"Home Alone" actor PESCI
"It is the __, and Juliet is the sun" EAST
"Just the __, ..." SAME
"Roman Holiday" vehicle VESPA
1519 Yucatán arrival CORTES
34th POTUS DDE
Ages EONS
Ahead ONTOP
Backyard party decoration TIKITORCH
Bean named for a capital LIMA
Big spreads FEASTS
Bit of a chuckle HEE
Buck's Fizz cousin MIMOSA
Bunk NONSENSE
Calm SETATEASE
Care ATTENTION
Certain NCOs SSGTS
Crops of the pick? ORES
Cultivate TILL
Cure HEAL
Deprive fraudulently, in slang ACEOUT
Didn't recover from a trip? FELL
Doctor ALTER
DOD arm NSA
Easter activities EGGROLLS
Epitome of brightness MENSA
Fervor ZEAL
Figure-hugging FITTED
Finish a 39-Across without a single mistake, e.g BELETTERPERFECT
First name in skating SONJA
French possessive TES
Games with many runs SLUGFESTS
Clues Answers
Headache cause STRESS
Host HORDE
Hulu offering NETTV
In the neighborhood of ABOUT
Like much folk mus TRAD
Loser's word LITE
Marie Antoinette and Louise de Lorraine REINES
Market chain based in Chicago IGA
Milne mom KANGA
Montreal Protocol concern OZONEHOLE
Mythical archer EROS
Nitpick CARP
Org. that employed Julia Child during WWII OSS
OT enders, often FGS
Paintball kin LASERTAG
Pitched ATASLANT
Point of Grant Wood's "American Gothic"? TINE
QVC rival HSN
Raises one's spirits? TOASTS
Rapt INTOIT
Reasons for seeing double? BIFOCALS
Routine fare? ONELINERS
Sailor's port LEFT
Silvery food fish SMELTS
Surgical tube STENT
Tester or Boxer: Abbr SEN
The first one appeared on this date in 1913 CROSSWORDPUZZLE
The plain in Spain LLANO
Tillis of country MEL
Title loc. in five '80s films ELMST
Tosspot SOT
Unable to go further STUCK
West Indian sorcery OBEAH
What a scythe may cut SWATH
Whistler, at times KETTLE
__ du Diable ILE