L.A. Times Daily - Dec 5 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Dec 5 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"And the people bowed and prayed / To the __ god they made": Paul Simon, "The Sound of Silence"	NEON
"If so ... "	THEN
"Terrible" czar	IVAN
17th-century privateer	KIDD
1999 ATP Player of the Year	AGASSI
2002 Soderbergh sci-fi film	SOLARIS
Actor Quinn	AIDAN
Almost-ready products	BETAS
Amazing	PHENOMENAL
Amos at the piano	TORI
Angle iron	LBAR
Architect Jones	INIGO
Author Binchy	MAEVE
Baden-Powell who co-founded the Girl Guide movement	AGNES
Berry, for one	ACTRESS
Besides Mo., the only state that borders eight others	TENN
Blood system letters	ABO
Bout decision	TKO
Boxer Laila	ALI
Burn lightly	SINGE
Chips partner	SALSA
Comic actor Bert	LAHR
Commander of primitive fish?	STURGEONGENERAL
Connection letters	DSL
Contrary to popular belief, throwing it won't endanger birds	RICE
Crucifix letters	INRI
Crustacean seller?	PRAWNBROKER
Danson of TV	TED
Degree of uncommonness, in some games	SEMIRARE
Demonstrate	SHOW
Disaster response gp	FEMA
Discoverer of the first ocean route to India	DAGAMA
Disney's "__ and the Detectives"	EMIL
Disney's vision of tomorrow	EPCOT
Dispensed, with "out"	METED
Early hrs	AMS
Earth tones	OCHRES
Eco-friendly certification letters	LEED
Festival for dugong relatives?	MANATEEFAIR
Folklore fiend	OGRE
Former Yugoslav leader	TITO
Ginseng and rooibos	HERBALTEAS
Goes (through) carefully	COMBS
Got a goal against	SCOREDON
Gradually impart	INSTILL
Hang on to	KEEP
Help for little fish?	HERRINGAIDS
High pt	MTN
How big dogs may travel	INCARGO
Indicate	POINTTO
Informal clothes	CASUALS
It's often an attic	LOFT
Italian wine region	ASTI
Jazzy James	ETTA
Jumping, as a joint	ALIVE
Key next to D	CSHARP
Lang. of about 200,000 Americans	HEBR
Leave out	OMIT
Letters in old dates	BCE
Like some goods	DAMAGED
Longings	DESIRES
Look parents caution children about	STARE
Looking up to	ADMIRING
Lose it	ERUPT
Magician who is a two-time "America's Got Talent" winner	SHINLIM
Make up (for)	ATONE
Many a Prado painting	GOYA
Marginal moves	INDENTS
Marine mammal in the air?	AHIGHERPORPOISE
Minimal	LEAST
More jungly	VINIER
Most developed	RIPEST
Most stylish	TONIEST
Muslim judge	HAKIM
Nails the final	ACESIT
Name near Uzbekistan, on maps	ARAL
Natural light refractor	CORNEA
Nautical pronoun	HER
Neighborhood	AREA
New Age musician John	TESH
NFC West team	ARI
NFL commentator Michael	IRVIN
NHL Flames' home	ATL
Not warranted	UNDUE
NYSE, e.g	MKT
Off-road vehicle	JEEP
Old Mideast org	UAR
One reading signs	SEER
Open-__ shoes	TOED
Opposite of retro-	ANTERO
Origin	GERM
Peace, in Russian	MIR
Pirate's cry	YAR
Pittsburgh's __ Park	PNC
Power source: Abbr	ELEC
Pre-storm state	CALM
Prof.'s degree	PHD
QBs' targets	TES
Rage	IRE
React to falling prices, perhaps	SELL
Reason to go to a seafood restaurant?	JUSTFORTHEHALIBUT
Reduced-speed road sign symbol	SCURVE
Roughly	ORSO
Seat of New York's Nassau County	MINEOLA
Shampoo brand	TGEL
Silly joke response, perhaps	SNORT
Simile words	ASA
Sink	SUBMERGE
Skin, e.g	ORGAN
Solo's opposite, in music	TUTTI
Status car	PORSCHE
Stopped	ENDED
Stupefies	AWES
Suggestion for a sprain	ICEIT
Sukiyaki ingredient	ENOKI
Symbol of love	REDROSE
Talk out of, with "from"	DISSUADE
Tennis error	MISHIT
Term of endearment	HON
The Phillie Phanatic and Bernie Brewer	MASCOTS
Those, to JosÃ%A9	ESAS
Tiny crustacean herald?	KRILLTHEMESSENGER
To boot	NOLESS
Toi et moi	NOUS
Tons	SLEWS
Twill fabric	CHINO
Union __, Dow Chemical subdivision	CARBIDE
Unsurpassed	ALLTIME
Urge forward	IMPEL
Vader creator	LUCAS
Warrior prefix	ECO
Went for the worm	BIT
What sweeps sweep	SOOT
Without value	USELESS
Word with whiskey or wolfhound	IRISH
Words with a hand up, maybe	ICAN
Yet to happen	UPCOMING
__ on the dollar	CENTS