Here are the answers to L.A. Times Crossword puzzles Saturday December 11 2021.
“Eww! Say no more!” – TMI
“I Am Jazz” cable channel – TLC
“Need You Tonight” band – INXS
“Rouen Cathedral” painter – MONET
“__ Kapital” – DAS
’90s-’00s HBO series with lots of therapy sessions – THESOPRANOS
Actress Gaye of “Ali” – NONA
Alpha Phi Alpha, e.g – FRAT
Bit of positivity? – ION
Brown or Rice ending – EDU
Chevy named for a star – VEGA
Climber’s rest stop – LEDGE
Club relative – SPADE
Common starting hr – NINEAM
Comprehend – GET
Crime novelist Carl – HIAASEN
Crosses at obedience school? – MUTTS
Dermatological symptom – REDNESS
Disorient – ADDLE
Election focuses – SWINGSTATES
Faulted to excess – PILEDITON
First name in film designers – OLEG
Hair, in many cases – DNAEVIDENCE
Hem partner – HAW
Hibachi waste – ASH
Idris of “The Jungle Book” – ELBA
Imperious dismissal – LEAVEME
Impresario’s contact – TALENTAGENT
Inflation fig – PSI
Juice extractor – PRESS
Latin word in many academic mottos – LUX
Leverage provider – CROWBAR
Like a situation in which emotional persuasion trumps factual accuracy – POSTTRUTH
Love of collectibles – VIRTU
NBA stat – PTS
Neologists – COINERS
Nit, to a Brit – PRAT
Novelist Iles – GREG
Official who sings in Hebrew – CANTOR
Pasture palindrome – EWE
Poetic indicator of relative time – ERE
Popped up – EMERGED
Power cord? – SINEW
Premise in many John Grisham novels – LAWSUIT
Purim month – ADAR
Purveyor of fraudulent credentials – DIPLOMAMILL
Ran into trouble – HITASNAG
Reason to call a chiropractor – ACHE
Redesigned – MADEOVER
Reels off – RECITES
Shakespearean last gasp – ETTU
Shocked big-time – APPALLED
Sitar sequence – RAGA
Some chocolate purchases – ASSORTMENTS
Succumbed to stage fright – FROZE
Surfboard damage – DING
Thinning layer – OZONE
Took a day to consider, with “on” – SLEPT
Tops – BESTS
Utah Jazz center Whiteside – HASSAN
Voice used for “Humpty Dumpty,” say – SINGSONG
Wander – ROVE
When 40-Across was spoken – IDES
Where to find “Octopus’s Garden” on “Abbey Road” – SIDEONE
Wouldn’t share – BOGARTED
Yale sobriquet – OLDELI
Yoga asset – BALANCE
Zoom frustrations – TIMELAGS
__ rule – MOB
__-chef – SOUS
