L.A. Times Daily Wednesday Dec 9 2020 Crossword Solutions

 L.A. Times Daily - Dec 9 2020 Wednesday Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Baby back" morsel	RIB
"Finally, it makes sense"	ISEENOW
"Oh, dear"	AHME
"Yabba dabba __!"	DOO
'50s candidate Stevenson	ADLAI
*"Balderdash!"	HORSEFEATHERS
*Core exercise starting from a lateral lying position	SIDEPLANK
*Hotel late-night meal source	ROOMSERVICE
*Remote file-storage option	CLOUDBACKUP
Actress Meryl	STREEP
Antlered bugler	ELK
At night ... and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go	AFTERDARK
Aver	STATE
Bailed-out insurance co	AIG
Balloon demise sounds	POPS
Bottom line	SUM
Caboose's place	REAR
Candy shape	CANE
Car service choices	UBERS
Central banking syst., with "the"	FED
Chairs a meeting	PRESIDES
Chit	IOU
Consider	DEEM
Dangerously involved	INDEEP
Director DuVernay	AVA
Elgar's "__ and Circumstance Marches"	POMP
Fairy tale opener	ONCE
Furry "Star Wars" creatures	EWOKS
Garden tools	HOES
Gave the nod	OKD
Hardest to spot	SUBTLEST
Hitter's stat	RBI
Hung jury result, often	RETRIAL
Indian spice mix	MASALA
Israeli coin	SHEKEL
Java	JOE
Killer whale	ORCA
La-la preceder	TRA
Landed	ALIT
Like eta and zeta	GREEK
Little drinks	NIPS
Lotion additive	ALOE
Mercenary	HIREDGUN
More robust	HEARTIER
Multiple choice choices	ABORC
Nighties	PJS
Ones with regrets	RUERS
Outdated collective noun	MAN
Page-bottom abbr	CONTD
Part of IPA	ALE
Performed surgery	OPERATED
Pigeons, e.g	COOERS
Pitch that curves downward	SINKER
Place for card games	TABLETOP
Probe (into)	DELVE
Rapper __ Nas X	LIL
Real riot	HOOT
Rowing tool	OAR
Sargasso Sea spawner	EEL
Shopping spot	MART
Sign of sadness, maybe	TEAR
Single-handed rebuke	SLAP
Sportage automaker	KIA
Start of a golf hole	TEE
Stopped the ship by facing the wind	LAIDTO
Tan cousin	BEIGE
To and __	FRO
Unwelcome look	LEER
URL bit	DOT
Went by bike or horse	RODE
Wheel's partner?	DEAL
Whipped __	CREAM
Whirling current	EDDY
With "The," '80s British rockers who gave their group "the most ordinary name"	SMITHS
Won by __	AHAIR
__ so often: occasionally	EVERY