Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Tuesday December 8th 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Single-handed rebuke : SLAP
5 Shopping spot : MART
9 “Oh, dear” : AH ME
13 Won by __ : A HAIR
14 Lotion additive : ALOE
15 Wheel’s partner? : DEAL
16 Tan cousin : BEIGE
17 *Core exercise starting from a lateral lying position : SIDE PLANK
19 Gave the nod : OK’D
20 Aver : STATE
22 Rowing tool : OAR
23 Hung jury result, often : RETRIAL
25 With “The,” ’80s British rockers who gave their group “the most ordinary name” : … SMITHS
28 *Remote file-storage option : CLOUD BACKUP
31 Chit : IOU
32 Sargasso Sea spawner : EEL
33 “Baby back” morsel : RIB
34 Consider : DEEM
35 *”Balderdash!” : HORSEFEATHERS
39 Balloon demise sounds : POPS
40 La-la preceder : TRA-
41 Rapper __ Nas X : LIL
42 Java : JOE
43 *Hotel late-night meal source : ROOM SERVICE
48 Actress Meryl : STREEP
50 “Finally, it makes sense” : I SEE NOW
51 Director DuVernay : AVA
52 Page-bottom abbr. : CONT’D
54 “Yabba dabba __!” : DOO
55 At night … and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go : AFTER DARK
58 Like eta and zeta : GREEK
60 Unwelcome look : LEER
61 Fairy tale opener : ONCE
62 Car service choices : UBERS
63 Whirling current : EDDY
64 Sign of sadness, maybe : TEAR
65 Little drinks : NIPS
DOWN
1 Israeli coin : SHEKEL
2 Stopped the ship by facing the wind : LAID TO
3 Bailed-out insurance co. : AIG
4 Chairs a meeting : PRESIDES
5 Indian spice mix : MASALA
6 Landed : ALIT
7 Went by bike or horse : RODE
8 Start of a golf hole : TEE
9 ’50s candidate Stevenson : ADLAI
10 More robust : HEARTIER
11 Outdated collective noun : MAN
12 Antlered bugler : ELK
13 Multiple choice choices : A, B OR C
18 Elgar’s “__ and Circumstance Marches” : POMP
21 Place for card games : TABLETOP
24 Ones with regrets : RUERS
25 Hardest to spot : SUBTLEST
26 Garden tools : HOES
27 Bottom line : SUM
29 Whipped __ : CREAM
30 Sportage automaker : KIA
34 Probe (into) : DELVE
35 Real riot : HOOT
36 Performed surgery : OPERATED
37 To and __ : FRO
38 Mercenary : HIRED GUN
39 Nighties : PJS
43 Caboose’s place : REAR
44 Pitch that curves downward : SINKER
45 Dangerously involved : IN DEEP
46 Pigeons, e.g. : COOERS
47 Furry “Star Wars” creatures : EWOKS
49 __ so often: occasionally : EVERY
52 Candy shape : CANE
53 Killer whale : ORCA
55 Part of IPA : ALE
56 Central banking syst., with “the” : FED
57 URL bit : DOT
59 Hitter’s stat : RBI
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