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11 Dec 21, LA Times Crossword Solutions
Across
- 1 Some chocolate purchases : ASSORTMENTS
- 12 Inflation fig. : PSI
- 15 Purveyor of fraudulent credentials : DIPLOMA MILL
- 16 Bit of positivity? : ION
- 17 Hair, in many cases : DNA EVIDENCE
- 18 Latin word in many academic mottos : LUX
- 19 Climber’s rest stop : LEDGE
- 20 Poetic indicator of relative time : ERE
- 21 Juice extractor : PRESS
- 23 Pasture palindrome : EWE
- 24 Wouldn’t share : BOGARTED
- 26 Imperious dismissal : LEAVE ME!
- 28 Surfboard damage : DING
- 31 Shocked big-time : APPALLED
- 34 Official who sings in Hebrew : CANTOR
- 36 Leverage provider : CROWBAR
- 37 Where to find “Octopus’s Garden” on “Abbey Road” : SIDE ONE
- 38 Utah Jazz center Whiteside : HASSAN
- 39 Ran into trouble : HIT A SNAG
- 40 Shakespearean last gasp : ET TU
- 41 Neologists : COINERS
- 43 Zoom frustrations : TIME LAGS
- 45 __ rule : MOB
- 48 Love of collectibles : VIRTU
- 50 “__ Kapital” : DAS
- 51 Succumbed to stage fright : FROZE
- 53 Brown or Rice ending : EDU
- 54 ’90s-’00s HBO series with lots of therapy sessions : THE SOPRANOS
- 57 Comprehend : GET
- 58 Impresario’s contact : TALENT AGENT
- 59 Hibachi waste : ASH
- 60 Election focuses : SWING STATES
Down
- 1 Disorient : ADDLE
- 2 Power cord? : SINEW
- 3 Club relative : SPADE
- 4 First name in film designers : OLEG
- 5 Wander : ROVE
- 6 “Eww! Say no more!” : TMI!
- 7 Redesigned : MADE OVER
- 8 Popped up : EMERGED
- 9 Common starting hr. : NINE AM
- 10 “I Am Jazz” cable channel : TLC
- 11 Took a day to consider, with “on” : SLEPT …
- 12 Faulted to excess : PILED IT ON
- 13 __-chef : SOUS
- 14 “Need You Tonight” band : INXS
- 22 Dermatological symptom : REDNESS
- 24 Yoga asset : BALANCE
- 25 Reels off : RECITES
- 26 Premise in many John Grisham novels : LAWSUIT
- 27 Idris of “The Jungle Book” : ELBA
- 29 Actress Gaye of “Ali” : NONA
- 30 Novelist Iles : GREG
- 31 Reason to call a chiropractor : ACHE
- 32 Nit, to a Brit : PRAT
- 33 Like a situation in which emotional persuasion trumps factual accuracy : POST TRUTH
- 35 Purim month : ADAR
- 37 Voice used for “Humpty Dumpty,” say : SING-SONG
- 39 Crime novelist Carl : HIAASEN
- 42 Yale sobriquet : OLD ELI
- 44 Crosses at obedience school? : MUTTS
- 45 “Rouen Cathedral” painter : MONET
- 46 Thinning layer : OZONE
- 47 Tops : BESTS
- 48 Chevy named for a star : VEGA
- 49 When 40-Across was spoken : IDES
- 51 Alpha Phi Alpha, e.g. : FRAT
- 52 Sitar sequence : RAGA
- 55 Hem partner : HAW
- 56 NBA stat : PTS
