L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answers - May 23 2017



With competence
With 71-Across, rocker whose first name anagrams a West Coast airport code
Winter ailment
What the nose knows
Volcanic rocks
Vineyard unit
Tot's piggy
Theater guides
Terrier on the Yellow Brick Road
Tackled, as a task, with 'at'
Supercharger
Sun-related
Sumatran ape
Spy org. created under Truman
Spencer of 'Good Morning America'
Sonic the Hedgehog game company
Small fruit pies
Skewed view
Ship's backbone
See 63-Down
Saloon slugfest
Recipe instruction
Really wiped out
Pure joy
Promotional connection
Private's denial
Prefix with centric or caching
Potato holder
Plunders
Plant used in tequila production
Place to de-stress
Place for wet cannonballs
Picasso who painted Gertrude Stein
Orderly
Move like a river
Mortimer on Bergen's knee
Ming museum piece
Like many resold items
Like an accurate hockey shot
Like 24-karat gold
Layered cookie
Intensely excited
Inaugurates
Iberian Peninsula country
Hometown of St. Teresa
High-ranking angel
Get one's tootsies wet
Filmdom's Flynn
Fair-hiring letters
Essential point
Dubai's fed
Dreadlocks wearer
Died down
Dermatologist's surgical tool
Comparatively outlandish
Civil rights gp
Case workers' org.?
Brute
Black, to a poet
Arctic or Indian
Arbor Day month
Appetizer often served with duck sauce
Angelic glow
Altar words
Allow to pass
2016 Best Picture (no, wait; it wasn't!) ... and a fitting place for the answers to starred clues?
*Teaching aid for learning foreign tongues
*Superboy's girlfriend
*Satisfaction after setbacks
*Deep blue gemstone
*Cowboy star with a bullwhip
'__ skies of blue and clouds of white ... ': 'What a Wonderful World'
'__ la Douce'
'__ I lie to you?'
'__ girl!'
'St. __ Fire'
'Cheers' waitress
'Believe' singer

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