Possible Clues:

• Local speculation about guilt in small states
• Prefix with "pend" or "pension"
• Fishy, in slang
• Find out location of LA
• Questionable, in 'Among Us,' slangily
• Dodgy
• Get your head around local characters taken in by James Ussher
• Shady, in gamer lingo
• Shady, for short
• Dubious, slangily