Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday December 9th 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Photoshop maker ADOBE
6 Late __ FEE
9 Average Joes, e.g. MALES
14 Fishing needs LURES
15 Bill’s future, maybe LAW
16 Troy story ILIAD
17 Dutch vodka brand KETEL FIVE
19 Coin receivers SLOTS
20 Round orders ALES
21 Extraction target ORE
22 Hide in a crowd BLEND
23 Piano part LEG
24 End of an Ernie Banks catchphrase about doubleheaders LET’S PLAY SIX!
27 State bordering six others and the Canadian mainland IDAHO
29 Beam RAY
30 Beats Electronics co-founder DRE
31 Rebuke UPBRAID
35 Checks out VETS
36 Powerful Detroit group THE BIG SEVEN
38 Powerful pair ACES
40 Parliament of Israel KNESSET
41 Former Texas Rangers manager Washington RON
42 Grafton’s “__ for Alibi” A IS
43 2014 Olympics city SOCHI
47 NCAA hockey semifinal group FROZEN EIGHT
52 Chuckle online LOL
53 Borneo swinger ORANG
54 Jessica Rabbit feature GAM
55 Composer __ Maria von Weber CARL
56 Mascot once awarded a Doctor of Bovinity degree ELSIE
57 Traditional golf pants, and a hint to why certain puzzle answers are wrong PLUS FOURS
59 Santa __ CLARA
60 Charged particle ION
61 Bhopal locale INDIA
62 Burdens TAXES
63 Sitter’s charge TOT
64 In dire straits NEEDY
DOWN
1 Caustic potash, e.g. ALKALI
2 Fought, in a way DUELED
3 Company with a Taco Club ORTEGA
4 Contests whose competitors stand in place BEES
5 Course for some U.S. arrivals ESL
6 Tease FLIRT
7 Gutter sites EAVES
8 Woolly mama EWE
9 Lose MISLAY
10 Way behind buildings ALLEY
11 Hostile place LION’S DEN
12 Swallow one’s pride EAT DIRT
13 Campus org. revived in 2006 SDS
18 Un-friend? FOE
22 Grass components BLADES
24 Bound LOPE
25 Finicky sort PRISS
26 Marks with two intersecting lines XES
28 Confused sounds HUHS
32 Blues singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1987 BB KING
33 Word before repeat RINSE
34 Sensitive subject for some AGE
35 Reject VETO
36 Clinton’s instrument TENOR SAX
37 A tie may be partly under one VEST
38 Pound sound ARF!
39 Toyota model COROLLA
42 Trojan who survived the sack of Troy AENEAS
44 First name in impressionism CLAUDE
45 Plain awful HORRID
46 “Amen to that!” I’LL SAY!
48 Rumble in the Jungle setting ZAIRE
49 Inuit home IGLOO
50 More than skinny GAUNT
51 Bounty title HMS
55 Pine __ CONE
56 Outside: Pref. ECT-
57 Casino area PIT
58 Shark feature FIN
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