L.A. Times Daily - Dec 29 2014

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Clues Answers
"Big" fast-food sandwich MAC
"Can't Help Lovin' __ Man" DAT
"Certainly!" INDEED
"Fried Green Tomatoes" co-screenwriter Fannie FLAGG
"Honor Thy Father" author Gay TALESE
"Mamma Mia!" group ABBA
Abdul and Zahn PAULAS
Actor Alda ALAN
Ancient calculators ABACI
Arid expanses DESERTS
Attack, to Fido SIC
Attractive PRETTY
Baseball's Cobb and football's Law TYS
Bomb trials, briefly HTESTS
Catch sight of SEE
Caustic chemical LYE
Clock-setting std GMT
Clumsy type OAF
Colo. neighbor KANS
Comic Buddy who played Costello in "Bud and Lou" HACKETT
Conductor's wand BATON
Craft with an outboard POWERBOAT
Cuba, por ejemplo ISLA
Day's 24: Abbr HRS
DVR brand TIVO
Earnest request PLEA
Elbow poke JAB
Final: Abbr ULT
Fitting APT
French pal AMI
Gems that come mostly from Australia OPALS
Gillette razor ATRA
Halloween sheet wearers GHOSTS
Handed over, as land CEDED
Iranian religion BAHAI
Jimmy of the Daily Planet OLSEN
Kid around with TEASE
King toppers ACES
Lab eggs OVA
Clues Answers
Large-group legal proceeding CLASSACTION
Lens for a panorama WIDEANGLE
Like a neglected lawn WEEDY
Like italics ASLANT
Major speech, as at a convention KEYNOTE
Maker of the Genesis game system SEGA
Netanyahu of Israel, familiarly BIBI
New Mexico art hub TAOS
Nikita's no NYET
Old California fort ORD
Omelet need EGG
Opposite of COD PPD
Palindromic "before" ERE
Part of a hotel bathroom set HANDTOWEL
Philandering fellow CAD
Place for a cocktail BAR
Power failures OUTAGES
Prez on a penny ABE
Pulitzer winner James AGEE
Rags-to-riches author Horatio ALGER
Rain forest parrot MACAW
Secure method of payment BANKDRAFT
Stretch across SPAN
Supermarket franchise initials IGA
Tax form ID SSN
Tax whiz, briefly CPA
The third "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie (and where you might find the first part of 18-, 24-, 34-, 40- and 48-Across) ATWORLDSEND
Tip-top AONE
Transcript no GPA
Tripod for a canvas EASEL
Ump's call with outstretched arms SAFE
Waterfront org ILA
Weapon in the David and Goliath story SLINGSHOT
Wheel shaft AXLE
Wooing period COURTSHIP
Writer Ferber EDNA
Zinc __: sunblock ingredient OXIDE
__ d'Arc JEANNE
__ Moines DES