La Times Crossword Puzzle Answers December 2 2017 Saturday

Clue	Solution
"As if!"	DREAMON
"Baby Blues" baby	WREN
#16, familiarly	ABE
[Yawn]	INEEDANAP
Allergy sufferer's choice	CLARITIN
Bargains beyond belief	STEALS
Beach pretender	HODAD
Better	AMEND
Big brother, often	ROLEMODEL
Booking agent?	COP
Card carrier	LANYARD
Caribbean city with cocotaxis	HAVANA
Chaotic places	SNAKEPITS
Character who dances on the beach at Stavros	ZORBA
Chill (with)	HANG
Church of country	ERIC
City west of Baghdad	RAMADI
Compete	VIE
Confident response to "Your opponent is ready"	SOAMI
Convene	SIT
Country album?	ATLAS
Dessert company founded in 1928	EDYS
Do maintenance on, as a putting green	AERATE
Empty out badly?	ROB
Evil skill	SORCERY
Exploits	USES
First chips	ANTES
Fund for incidentals	PETTYCASH
Funeral rite heap	PYRE
German chancellor Merkel	ANGELA
Grouses	CARPS
History buff's artifacts	AMERICANA
Indistinct	HAZY
Intrusive	NOSY
It runs in the shower	MASCARA
Kate of "House of Cards"	MARA
Legendary court figure	LANCELOT
Like free-range chickens	UNCAGED
Many a Studio Ghibli film	ANIME
Maranjab Desert country	IRAN
Mercury, e.g.	PLANET
Mine carriers	TRAMCARS
Noted resident of The Dakota in Manhattan	ONO
Nursed	SIPPED
Obstacles on the set	EGOS
Old hand	VET
Overhaul the plant	RETOOL
Pale order	AMBERALE
Poet Thomas	DYLAN
Repertoire	ARSENAL
Sequentially	INAROW
Shells from stands	TACOS
Short-lived things	EPHEMERA
Singer?	DIRTYRAT
Skeleton's place?	CLOSET
Small change	DIME
South Seas cover-ups	SARONGS
Stay in the big house	SERVETIME
Supporting	PRO
Talbot Jr. or Sr. on "Rectify"	TED
Tar on the ocean	SALT
Teammate of Mariano for 19 years	DEREK
Tearful queen	NIOBE
They're beaten at parties	PINATAS
Tone down	DEADEN
Tough guy's exhortation	BEAMAN
Washes out	RINSES
Welding sparks	ARCS
West of Tinseltown	MAE
Zip	ENERGY