L.A. Times Daily - Wednesday Sep 8 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Sep 8 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'70s hot spots	DISCOS
'C'__ la vie!'	EST
'Morning Edition' airer	NPR
'NASCAR on NBC' analyst Earnhardt Jr	DALE
*Devoted ESPN viewer	SPORTSNUT
*Garden walkway component	PAVINGSTONE
*Quarry that supplies aggregate	GRAVELPIT
*Spec for sandpaper or salt	COARSEGRAIN
A party to	INON
Actor Grant	CARY
Agcy. concerned with fraud	FTC
Alert for an actor	CUE
Alternative to Margie	PEG
Brings in	REAPS
Building wing	ELL
Bullish sound?	SNORT
Caddie's offering	CLUB
Cancún coin	PESO
Challenge for an atty. wannabe	LSAT
Checkout printout	RECEIPT
Chess result	DRAW
Coll. near the Rio Grande	UTEP
Contrived plot	SETUP
Dance class topic	STEP
Deceptive	SNEAKY
Dell rival	ACER
Drive-__	THRU
First name in skin care	ESTEE
Gershwin brother	IRA
Guys	HES
Half a mint?	TIC
Hard rain	SLEET
Heck of a hike	TREK
Hotel shuttles	VANS
Hurricane mandate responder	EVACUEE
Important	BIG
Island near Maui	LANAI
Jai __	ALAI
Klingon officer in the 'Star Trek' franchise	WORF
Language student's challenge	SLANG
Last player selected for a Wimbledon ranking ... or part of each answer to a starred clue	FINALSEED
Light earth tone	TAN
Locale	VENUE
Long-running CBS series	NCIS
Major success	HIT
Make a wrong turn, say	ERR
Malarkey	ROT
Medieval estates	MANORS
Metalworker	SMITH
MLB rally killers	DPS
Noted period	ERA
Olympic star Jackie __-Kersee	JOYNER
Pachelbel work	CANON
Preferable, gastronomically	TASTIER
Quebec's __ Peninsula	GASPE
R&B's __ Hill	DRU
Racecourse shape	OVAL
Ready for bed, briefly	INPJS
Researchers' publications	REPORTS
Sahara features	DUNES
Seuss' Cindy __ Who	LOU
Short flight	HOP
Square up	ALIGN
Strengthen, as glass	ANNEAL
Sudden stop sound	SCREECH
Suffix with exist	ENT
Thankless sort	INGRATE
TiVo, for one	DVR
To date	ASOFYET
Trailblazer	PIONEER
Treasury secretary Janet	YELLEN
Tropical grassland	SAVANNA
Umpire's pregame request	LINEUP
Uneasy feeling	ANGST
Unload, say	SELL
Wail	CRY
Wine qualities	NOSES
Word after box or law	OFFICE