LA Times Crossword December 8 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Short shots
  PICS
• Shocks
  JOLTS
• Gum balls?
  WADS
• Shade in a neutral palette
  ECRU
• Nebraska rail hub
  OMAHA
• Actor Guinness
  ALEC
• Odd remedy for an overhead crack?
  CEILINGWAX
• Speak effusively
  GUSH
• Shock
  STUN
• Rejections
  NOS
• You cant mean me!?
  MOI
• Go downhill fast
  SKI
• Pennies that are a dime a dozen?
  COMMONCENTS
• Super __
  PAC
• Met favorites
  ARIAS
• Truism
  AXIOM
• Sundance Film Festival state
  UTAH
• Club kin
  BLT
• __ carte
  ALA
• Percussion instrument for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?
  RELIGIOUSCYMBAL
• Hardly!
  NOT
• Same old same old
  RUT
• Rational
  SANE
• CX-5 and CX-50 automaker
  MAZDA
• Olympian and actress Sonja
  HENIE
• Decline
  SAG
• Sacrifice of some data storage space?
  CLOUDCEDING
• Prefix with friendly
  ECO
• Tanqueray product
  GIN
• Tofu basically
  SOY
• Munch Museum city
  OSLO
• Really distasteful
  ICKY
• Jewelry in the shape of a swan?
  CYGNETRING
• Committed perjury
  LIED
• Gochujang origin
  KOREA
• Reds friend in The Shawshank Redemption
  ANDY
• Boys
  LADS
• More confident
  SURER
• Baseball gripping point
  SEAM

DOWN

• Delt neighbor
  PEC
• Gear for 49-Across
  ICESKATE
• Decisive
  CRITICAL
• Chekov colleague
  SULU
• Garfields human
  JON
• Daaaang!
  OMG
• Kim Wexlers field on Better Call Saul
  LAW
• Marvel villain who collected the Infinity Stones
  THANOS
• Early invader of Great Britain
  SAXON
• Jokester
  WAG
• Many college donors
  ALUMNI
• Bygone Chrysler
  DESOTO
• Rupture in a church group
  SCHISM
• Native of Perus Urubamba Valley
  INCA
• Like a bass or a boa
  SCALY
• Urge (on)
  SPUR
• Planetary path
  ORBIT
• Ventimiglia of This Is Us
  MILO
• Ripened
  MATURED
• Chances to determine proficiency
  EXAMS
• Holi celebrant
  HINDU
• Get credit for?
  ACTIN
• Urges on
  GOADS
• Olympic gymnast Lee
  SUNI
• Court boundary
  BASELINE
• Worlds heaviest snake
  ANACONDA
• Component of some small castles
  LEGO
• Montreal university
  MCGILL
• Garza who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement
  ALICIA
• Utterly exhausted
  ZONKED
• Oh hi!
  HEYYOU
• Versatile celebs achievement
  EGOT
• Roosters
  COCKS
• Some Mex. spouses
  SRAS
• Quilting qty.
  YDS
• Why I oughta …
  GRR
• Name-clarifying word
  NEE
• Otoscope target
  EAR
• Workout spot
  GYM