LA Times Crossword Answers
LA Times Crossword May 21 2026 Answers
81 clues total (39 Across, 42 Down). Click any clue to reveal its answer on the grid.
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Across
- Texting format initials
- Eel in maki sushi
- Language of Sri Lanka
- "Long," in Hawaiian
- Sure to end badly
- __ Cortina 2026
- Under the weather
- *Brunch choice
- Only major U.S. city founded by a woman
- Roadside org.
- Draped silk dress
- *Apprenticeship in the ways of The Force
- Digital exec
- Purple bloom
- World Series mo.
- Comedy series featuring Lily Tomlin
- Grown boys
- Educational acronym
- Opera solos
- Unpublicized restaurant offering, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue
- Call dibs on
- Charger, e.g.
- Navigation tech
- Tolkien characters who like to eat six meals a day
- Locavore's org.
- Small cut
- Result of advancing in the field?
- *Negro Leagues player in the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Key West, e.g.
- __ shu pork
- Oyster opener
- *"I Just Called To Say I Love You" singer
- Sock part
- Barbershop parts
- Leg day exercise
- Music producer Brian
- Snacks stuffed with "stuf"
- Couple of bucks?
- Web feed initials
Down
- Jerky brand
- "Tartuffe" playwright
- First sultan of Syria and Egypt
- Not well-matched
- Swe. neighbor
- Astonishment
- Martini liquor
- Like some ruins in Peru
- "Beetlejuice" director Burton
- Bitter beers
- Last book of the Old Testament
- Laziness
- Skin soothers
- Disney film set in Polynesia
- Call, as a cab
- Sue Grafton's "__ for Malice"
- Campus mil. unit
- Laptop brand
- "I feel seen"
- Fertilizer from bats
- Mentor of Minions
- Big rigs
- Sis, for one
- Speed reader?
- Inspiring figure
- Footnote abbr.
- Artist known for fabric-wrapped installations
- Maine course
- Central Texas city
- Sparkly stuff
- City birds
- Sound investments?
- Makes less wild
- Put away
- Didn't play
- Loses steam?
- Sauna openings?
- Kitchen initialism
- Tax agcy.
- Fan
- "The Code Breaker" subj.
- Pasta ingredient
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