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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