Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday December 17th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Follower of Jefferson : MADISON
8 Turn on : START
13 Polluter’s crime : ECOCIDE
14 Mountaintop home : AERIE
15 Outfits for a climber? : HIGH GEAR
17 Refuse : TRASH
18 His-and-her outfits? : BINARY NUMBERS
21 The first “A” in A.A. Milne : ALAN
23 Fictional 1847 autobiographer : EYRE
24 __ Paulo : SAO
25 Typographical ornament : DINGBAT
29 Evasive tactics : END RUNS
31 Spot : SEE
32 Infuriates : IRES
34 Polynesian capital : APIA
35 Outfits for tourist town natives? : LOCAL RAGS
39 Jessica of “Dark Angel” : ALBA
42 Long-gone time : YORE
43 Tiger, e.g. : CAT
46 Belafonte #1 album on which “Day-O” was the first track : CALYPSO
50 Turns on : BETRAYS
52 Corp. alias letters : DBA
53 Subway fare? : HERO
55 Sword with a three-sided blade : EPEE
56 Outfits for the masses? : COMMON THREADS
61 They hold your horses : REINS
62 Outfits for dairy farmers? : MILK DUDS
65 Deejay, at times : EMCEE
66 Swung wildly : FLAILED
67 Transfers, as a house : DEEDS
68 Secures : FASTENS
DOWN
1 Not so hot : MEH
2 Handel’s “__, Galatea e Polifemo” : ACI
3 Poisonous plant reputed to repel canines : DOGBANE
4 Chinese book of divination : I CHING
5 Register, with “up” : SIGN …
6 Music halls of old : ODEA
7 Close : NEAR
8 Ring bearer? : SATURN
9 Called : TERMED
10 Many an Omani : ARAB
11 Revolts : RISES UP
12 Like many “Argo” militants : TEHRANI
16 White alternative : RYE
19 Emmy-winning scientist : NYE
20 ’90s-’00s Cubs star : SOSA
21 GEICO highlights : ADS
22 Tell tales, maybe : LIE
26 Book jacket text, often : BIO
27 Semicircle, say : ARC
28 Leaves for a spot : TEA
30 Student housing VIPs : RAS
33 Wily : SLY
35 Set down : LAY
36 Take badly? : ROB
37 “__ you done?” : ARE
38 Perceive : GET
39 Like some appliances : AC/DC
40 Worked : LABORED
41 Words of confession : BLAME ME
43 Tablet alternative : CAPSULE
44 Supportive response : AYE
45 “The Waste Land” monogram : TSE
47 Called : PHONED
48 It’s sometimes necessary to come to them : SENSES
49 Food bit : ORT
51 Website with “Ask Me Anything” interviews : REDDIT
54 Unit of resistance : OHM
57 Laptop navigation aids : MICE
58 Jazz phrase : RIFF
59 “Enchanted” movie girl : ELLA
60 Aliases : AKAS
63 Thieves’ place : DEN
64 Radical ’60s org. : SDS
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