L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Breaking Bad" bad guys	CARTEL
"I can help"	USEME
"Time spent with __ is never wasted": Colette	ACAT
"__ chic!"	TRES
1969 film remade in 2010 with Jeff Bridges in John Wayne's role	TRUEGRIT
Alternatively	ELSE
Axis foes	ALLIES
Bat wood	ASH
Betray	RATON
Black card, maybe	CLUB
Buster Brown's dog	TIGE
Buzz-creating promo	TEASERAD
Confidently say	AVER
Cream additive	ALOE
Cue preceder?	PEE
Digital media brand	ROKU
Dish from which paella evolved	PILAF
Duel tool	EPEE
Earned	MADE
Flat sign	TOLET
Former Romanian president	ILIESCU
Future doc's exam	MCAT
Genesis son	SETH
Guffaw sound	HAR
Guttural interruption	AHEM
Hercules' dozen	LABORS
Historic time	ERA
Hook or Kirk: Abbr	CAPT
Hospital cry	NURSE
Hustle, quaintly	HIE
I-5 state	ORE
Inland Asian sea	ARAL
Iraqi neighbor	SYRIAN
It may be wild	RICE
Jenny's offspring	ASS
Just plain folks	MIDDLEAMERICA
Kid-lit poet Silverstein	SHEL
Kosher	LEGIT
Latin "in other words"	IDEST
Liberia neighbor	GUINEA
Logician's "E"	ERAT
Manhattan attraction	CENTRALPARK
Midday refreshers	NAPS
Mosaic piece	TESSERA
New Hampshire state flower	LILAC
No longer working: Abbr	RET
Often euphemistic words for lacking employment	INBETWEENJOBS
P.D. ranks	DETS
Parkinson's treatment	LDOPA
Petri dish gels	AGARS
Plains people	OTOS
Pricing word that rhymes with its opposite	STEEP
Range name	AMANA
Rope fiber	SISAL
Rounding third base after starting at second, say	HALFWAYHOME
Shoo relative	SCAT
Short dog, for short	PEKE
Sierra Nevada, e.g	ALE
Slangy alternative to walking	WHEELS
Smiley face with hearts for eyes, e.g	EMOJI
Suffix for the rich	AIRE
Sun-dried brick	ADOBE
Swear	AVOW
Swiss river	AAR
Thai money	BAHT
The "her" in Shakespeare's "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety"	CLEOPATRA
The NBA's Magic	ORL
Thompson of "Westworld"	TESSA
Threat to national security	ESPIONAGE
Union station?	ALTAR
Vintage hue on a photo app	SEPIA
Water __	MAIN
Zap	NUKE
__-pitch softball	SLO