LA Times Crossword Answers

LA Times Crossword August 9 2026 Answers

142 clues total (65 Across, 77 Down). Click any clue to reveal its answer on the grid.

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Across

  • Some latte orders
  • Enemy of ancient Athens
  • Alpaca kin
  • "Play slowly," in music
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Keeps occupied
  • Public square that gets really sticky in the heat?
  • Would rather not
  • Biblical suffix
  • Sp. address
  • Quite the commotion
  • Ski lift
  • Actor Kilmer
  • Chuckle syllable
  • Founded, as a co.
  • "Don't play," in music
  • Phi __ Kappa
  • One who can only rasp quietly?
  • Title for Judi Dench
  • Fox or ox
  • __ monster
  • Spot in a store with toys, water bowls, and leashes?
  • Castle-breaching explosive
  • Sandbox visitor
  • Rapper Dr. __
  • Matar paneer vegetables
  • Cause friction
  • Cookie whose website has recipes for cheesecake and empanadas
  • Derby-sporting Addams
  • Ancient hulled wheat
  • Old Jutland resident
  • "Fiddlesticks"
  • Warning before a particularly scary monster flick?
  • Lysol target
  • Chemist Mendeleev who created the periodic table
  • Castle trenches
  • Hit the slopes
  • Blackthorn berry
  • Beyoncé's "I Am... __ Fierce"
  • In the mail
  • Blunder
  • Liberty Mutual's bus.
  • Hybrid synth instrument
  • R-rated NASA event?
  • Pedal pushers
  • __ roll
  • "What fun!"
  • Oak trees?
  • Golfer McIlroy
  • Broadcast again
  • Hurdle for an aspiring JD
  • Halloween mo.
  • Off-rd. wheels
  • "Stranger Things" actor Wolfhard
  • Hoppy fave
  • Wireless std.
  • "Midsommar" director Aster
  • Minor flaw
  • Glass ceiling-breaking event?
  • Musical weakness
  • Invertebrate found in every ocean
  • Hackers' shout of success
  • Go out for a while?
  • Beguile
  • Jaunty neckwear

Down

  • Broad valley
  • "Ethan Frome" novelist Wharton
  • Browser storage
  • In the past
  • Many Christmas trees
  • Fancy affair
  • NNW reversal
  • "Play very, very softly," in music
  • Met highlight
  • Assessment
  • Lipton division
  • Curved cutting tool
  • "Nothing you say is true!"
  • Tennis do-over
  • Affectionate sign-off
  • Change genetically
  • Like molecules that cannot form permanent bonds
  • Nickname for Louis Armstrong
  • "There isn't anything else!?"
  • Lettuce or cabbage
  • Neutral shades
  • Web design code
  • Warty amphibian
  • Paul of "The Batman"
  • Piercing tool
  • Tight squeezes
  • Listen to
  • Fix badly?
  • Texting tech
  • Put a name to
  • Natural history museum display
  • "M*A*S*H" star?
  • Not on the same page
  • Savanna antelope
  • Glam gala
  • Trails
  • Intro to many a newsreel
  • Calligraphy tools
  • Some city trains
  • As a departure from the norm
  • Snare
  • Without any planning
  • More family-friendly
  • Walks or runs
  • Where some get tired quickly?
  • Movement while asking "How do I look?"
  • Junior
  • Rubber-stamped
  • Like a daisy
  • Shiny fabric
  • Sultry growl
  • Boston University athlete
  • Trivial objection
  • Product of incomplete combustion
  • Ship stabilizer
  • Noted times
  • "Um, think again"
  • Showy carp
  • From Cairo or Cape Town
  • Makes with skill
  • Medium for deep-frying
  • California city near Santa Ana
  • Grams
  • Young hippopotamus
  • Capital west of Montreal
  • Brief appearance
  • Hair texture, e.g.
  • Dust jacket part
  • Ramona, per Beezus
  • Voting against
  • Short-horned bighorns
  • Some Tripadvisor recommendations
  • Buzzer?
  • "Told you!"
  • Washington's Sea-__ Airport
  • Minecraft material
  • Battle of Helm's Deep combatant

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