Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Wednesday December 8 2021.
“Where __ you now?” – ARE
Acrimony – BILE
Almost never – ONCE
Attention-getting, in a way – SEXY
Beyond heavy – OBESE
Blew away – WOWED
Burden – TAX
Campsite staple – FIREPIT
Children’s author Blyton – ENID
Common wrist measurement – PULSE
Considerable, as a bonus – FAT
Course standard – PAR
Dark clouds, maybe – OMENS
Debussy’s sea – MER
Degs. for choreographers – MFAS
Designated money – FUND
European range – ALPS
Execs who only look the part – EMPTYSUITS
Expert – MAVEN
Familiar with – USEDTO
Game with rooms – CLUE
Geometry calculation – AREA
Get (into) carefully – EASE
Gossip – DIRT
Guest beyond a velvet rope – VIP
Hard stuff – BOOZE
Help in a bad way – ABET
High-flying mil. group – USAF
Informal London eatery – CAFF
Internet destinations – SITES
Jury makeup – PEERS
Land divisions – ACRES
Landlocked African land – CHAD
Little piggies – TOES
Midday tide-me-over – SNACK
MLB game-ending accomplishments – SAVES
More delicate – FINER
Of no consequence – IRRELEVANT
Off in the distance – AFAR
Ostentatiously nice sort – GOODYTWOSHOES
Pac-12 squad – UTES
Pallid – ASHY
Panda’s diet – BAMBOO
Parts of Hawaiian greetings – LEIS
Pics for docs – MRIS
Play divisions – ACTS
Pollution watchdog org – EPA
Pompous types – STUFFEDSHIRTS
Pretentiously elegant one – FANCYPANTS
Project detail – SPEC
Protest singer Phil – OCHS
Puckish – ARCH
Rapunzel’s “ladder” – HAIR
Reactions to fireworks – OOHS
Returning GI’s diagnosis – PTSD
Reveal – BARE
Reversed on appeal – OVERTURNED
Rubik creation – CUBE
Screwdriver, e.g – TOOL
Security system components – KEYPADS
Shrink in fear – COWER
Simple tops – TEES
Spreadsheet input – DATA
Start from scratch – REDO
Starting spots for some races – GATES
Stephen Colbert’s network – CBS
Tatting fabric – LACE
Tomatoes used to make paste – ROMAS
Tot’s tea party guest – TEDDY
Treasure __ – TROVE
Type of coffee or whiskey – IRISH
Unclear – HAZY
What a capital sigma symbolizes, in math – SUM
Winter Palace monarch – TSAR
Wisconsin winter hrs – CST
Without feeling – NUMB
__ Moines – DES
__ museum – ART
