SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick  (adapted)

The answers to the clues below relate to South America, sort of.

1. Irregular South American range
2. Peruvian vanishing stuff    
3. Popular children's treat in Venezuela
4. Incredible South American country
5. Just plain silly Argentinian
6. South American cowboy communist
7. Woman from Georgetown
8. South American herbs and grasses for an animal

Answers:

1. Raggedy Andes
2. Invisible Inca
3. Animal Caracas
4. I don't Bolivia
5. Pompous fool
6. Gaucho Marx
7. A Guyana gal
8. Alpaca meal