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LA Times Crossword Answers Thursday October 12th 2023

Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday October 12th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.

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1 Stoppers : PLUGS
6 Facebook verb : LIKE
10 Food writer Drummond : REE
13 Southeast Asian capital : HANOI
14 One-over-par score : BOGEY
15 Sargasso Sea spawner : EEL
16 *Period of connectivity that began in the 1990s : INTERNET AGE
18 Maven : PRO
19 Paper cutters : SCISSORS
20 Send via UPS or USPS : SHIP
21 Billie Eilish’s “All the Good Girls Go to __” : HELL
22 *Place for navel gazers? : ORANGE TREE
26 Actress Jessica who co-founded The Honest Company : ALBA
28 Average booster : EASY A
29 Sprang up : AROSE
32 Firm: Abbr. : CORP
33 __ Lanka : SRI
36 *”Let me stop you right there” : DON’T GET ANY IDEAS
40 Dead __ Scrolls : SEA
41 Iraq neighbor : IRAN
42 Down-yielding duck : EIDER
43 “McSorley’s Bar” painter : SLOAN
45 Fed. food stamper : USDA
47 *Power source for some superheroes? : MUTANT GENE
50 Helen of Troy’s mother : LEDA
54 The Grand Ole __ : OPRY
55 Places for hoops and studs : EARLOBES
57 “__ to Dirt”: Sharon Olds poem : ODE
58 Modern innovator, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues : CHANGE AGENT
61 “Long,” in Hawaiian : LOA
62 Cola with a red, white, and blue logo : PEPSI
63 Sip : NURSE
64 Inquire : ASK
65 Avant-garde : ARTY
66 Dissuade : DETER

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1 Lure with false emails : PHISH
2 Jousting weapon : LANCE
3 Up to : UNTIL
4 Brings up the rear : GOES LAST
5 Knight titles : SIRS
6 Mucho : LOTSA
7 Three-time French Open winner Swiatek : IGA
8 Barrel of beer : KEG
9 Word with wash or wear : EYE-
10 Said another way : REPHRASED
11 Like a haunted house : EERIE
12 Get to “I do” without the ado : ELOPE
14 Utterer of “Yogi-isms” : BERRA
17 Gaming novice : NOOB
20 Messy room : STY
23 Glowing gas : NEON
24 “The Far Side” cartoonist Larson : GARY
25 Spotted : ESPIED
27 American __: veterans’ group : LEGION
29 Commercial intrusions : ADS
30 Caviar : ROE
31 Racking up wins : ON A STREAK
32 Soda container : CAN
34 “Insecure” actress Issa : RAE
35 Leb. neighbor : ISR
37 Q.E.D. part : ERAT
38 Sharp flavor : TANG
39 Lines of communication? : DIALOGUE
44 __ of the land : LAY
45 Dragon roll ingredient : UNAGI
46 Desertlike : SERE
47 Bucks : MOOLA
48 Beehives and some buns : UPDOS
49 Like the itsy-bitsy spider : EENSY
51 Film critic Roger : EBERT
52 Slow on the uptake : DENSE
53 Starlike flower : ASTER
56 Arrive at the airport safely : LAND
58 IRS form expert : CPA
59 She/__ pronouns : HER
60 Fitting : APT

LA Times Crossword Answers Tuesday October 10th 2023

Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Tuesday October 10th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Chess piece that’s often the first to be played : PAWN
5 [I’m shocked!] : GASP
9 “I’m Every Woman” singer Chaka __ : KHAN
13 Gobi locale : ASIA
14 “__ girl!” : ATTA
15 Sweet sandwich : S’MORE
16 Junior : THIRD YEAR
18 “No kidding!” : THAT SO
19 Black and blue, say : BICOLOR
20 Top : SHIRT
21 Stomach : GUT
22 Age of Attila’s reign : FIFTH CENTURY
26 Question that introduces doubt : OR IS IT
28 Writers McEwan and Fleming : IANS
29 Pollen gatherer : BEE
30 Bagless vacuum pioneer : DYSON
31 Japanese box lunch : BENTO
33 Warning with a URL : NSFW
34 Like some Adventist Protestants : SEVENTH DAY
37 Ticklish Muppet : ELMO
40 Came to light : AROSE
41 Changes direction : VEERS
45 Campground inits. : KOA
46 Mashed avocado, for short : GUAC
47 Litter box user : PET CAT
48 Almost too late : ELEVENTH HOUR
52 Lucy of “Charlie’s Angels” : LIU
53 Squander : WASTE
54 Fingertip-to-fingertip measurement : ARM SPAN
56 Chooses : ELECTS
58 Popular television programming block, and an apt title for this puzzle : PRIME TIME
60 Mojave landforms : MESAS
61 Fencing sword : EPEE
62 North __ Sea: lake fed by the Syr Darya river : ARAL
63 Like a cereal bar : OATY
64 Opinion sampling : POLL
65 Govt.-issued IDs : SSNS

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1 Gentle touch : PAT
2 San Francisco street crossing Haight : ASHBURY
3 Arm pain from playing too much Nintendo : WIIITIS
4 DEA agent : NARC
5 Bookstore section with Jeanette Winterson and Andrew Sean Greer : GAY LIT
6 Tasted, quaintly : ATE OF
7 Get-go : START
8 Average : PAR
9 Target rival : KMART
10 Jacuzzis : HOT TUBS
11 Talk Like a Pirate Day sounds : ARS
12 New prefix : NEO-
15 Lower legs : SHINS
17 Get by : DO FINE
18 Official approval : THE NOD
20 Rip into : SCATHE
21 Mars, for one : GOD
23 Clues : HINTS
24 One who makes sure fighting between the Sharks and the Jets doesn’t get out of hand? : REF
25 Archery wood : YEW
27 Average : SO-SO
31 Rip into : BERATE
32 Cain’s oldest son : ENOCH
33 Russian “no” : NYET
35 Crows about : VAUNTS
36 Disinclined (to) : AVERSE
37 __ out a living : EKE
38 “ur soooo funny!” : LOL
39 “I’m No Angel” star : MAE WEST
42 Oblong pastries : ECLAIRS
43 1988 Best Picture : RAIN MAN
44 “The Simpsons” disco guy : STU
46 Knight’s tales : GESTS
47 Wallop : PUMMEL
49 Brief holiday? : VACAY
50 Silent Marx brother : HARPO
51 Bay window : ORIEL
55 Education advocacy gps. : PTAS
56 Punk subgenre : EMO
57 Grassy expanse : LEA
58 High spirits : PEP
59 High trains : ELS

LA Times Crossword Answers Monday October 9th 2023

Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Monday October 9th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Physical effort : LABOR
6 Girl Scout sash addition : BADGE
11 Flamenco cry : OLE
14 Unaccompanied : ALONE
15 Road one-eighty : U-TURN
16 “Industry Baby” rapper Lil __ X : NAS
17 Potential March Madness bracket buster : SIXTEEN SEED
19 Egyptian viper : ASP
20 Comfort : SOLACE
21 Rowboat pair : OARS
23 Pilates surface : MAT
25 Hair coloring technique with an ombre effect : SHADOW ROOT
29 “Gossip Girl” steps location : THE MET
32 Cooks (up), as grub : RUSTLES
33 Gaseous water : VAPOR
34 Flying formations : VEES
36 “Frozen” princess : ELSA
37 Mind-body connector : BRAINSTEM
40 Against : ANTI
43 JPEG alternatives : PNGS
44 Prefix with scope or soft : MICRO-
48 Floating basketball hoop, e.g. : POOL TOY
50 “Leaving already?” : SO SOON?
51 Electrifying industrial facility : POWER PLANT
54 Whiskey grain : RYE
55 1950s sitcom name : DESI
56 Absorb, as a significant moment : SOAK IN
59 Like most reruns : OLD
60 “Black Hole Sun” grunge band : SOUNDGARDEN
65 Modernist architect who lived to be 102 : PEI
66 Hebrew prophet : HOSEA
67 Actress Mary Tyler __ : MOORE
68 ID on an I-9 form : SSN
69 Not together : APART
70 Adolescent emotion : ANGST

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1 __ Vegas : LAS
2 “Moonlight” actor Mahershala : ALI
3 Basic foxtrot move : BOX STEP
4 Not fooled by : ONTO
5 Fishing rod attachment : REEL
6 Banana buy : BUNCH
7 Completely lost : AT SEA
8 Invoice word : DUE
9 Future MBA’s exam : GRE
10 Provides with funds : ENDOWS
11 Enjoying a hot streak : ON A ROLL
12 Ropes at the rodeo : LASSOES
13 Paranormal ability, for short : ESP
18 Sunrise direction : EAST
22 Twin sister of Apollo : ARTEMIS
23 “The Hills” airer : MTV
24 “Eureka!” : AHA!
26 Put on clothes : DRESS
27 Forcibly remove : OUST
28 PreCheck org. : TSA
30 Alexander Calder sculptures : MOBILES
31 Mix up “their” and “there,” e.g. : ERR
34 Pressed music medium : VINYL
35 2023 World Cup finalists, briefly : ENG
38 Each, informally : A POP
39 Moody music genre : EMO
40 Smartphone program : APP
41 Udon and soba : NOODLES
42 Taken to the junkyard : TOWED IN
45 Snack on a stick : CORN DOG
46 Baseball Hall of Famer Campanella : ROY
47 Top Billboard spot : ONE
49 Country singer Yearwood : TRISHA
50 Male deer : STAG
52 67-Across co-star : ASNER
53 Greet wordlessly : NOD AT
57 __ Sutra : KAMA
58 Word with Man or Maiden : IRON
59 Mil. missions : OPS
61 Alley-__ pass : OOP
62 Mex. and Can. neighbor : USA
63 Triage sites, briefly : ERS
64 Take-home pay : NET

LA Times Crossword Answers Saturday October 7th 2023

Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday October 7th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.

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1 Common : CRASS
6 “Got other plans, sorry” : CAN’T
10 Low pair : TWOS
14 Knew the answer : HAD IT
15 Drink mentioned in the Walker Hayes song “Fancy Like” : OREO SHAKE
17 Detroit __: stratified automotive paint polished and cut for jewelry : AGATE
18 Reptile at Kélonia aquarium in Saint-Leu, Réunion : SEA TURTLE
19 Spotify playlist that calls itself “the most influential playlist in hip-hop” : RAPCAVIAR
21 Trial versions : BETAS
22 Jazz dance : STOMP
23 Key st.? : FLA
24 “Jeopardy!” champion with the show’s second-longest win streak : AMY SCHNEIDER
30 Speeds : JETS
32 Sphere : REALM
33 Gesture that means “no” in some cultures : NOD
35 Lennox of R&B : ARI
36 Element in the tale of Sleeping Beauty : SPINDLE
38 Glop : GOO
39 Many a Wiki article : BIO
40 Home of the Kaaba : MECCA
41 Knack : GIFT
42 Interior support structure : ENDOSKELETON
46 __-weekly : ALT
47 Reclusive sort : LONER
49 Like the smell of burning plastic : ACRID
52 Instrument for Seiichi Tanaka or Eitetsu Hayashi : TAIKO DRUM
56 Laxity : LOOSENESS
58 Yankees manager Aaron : BOONE
59 Like someone on the stand : UNDER OATH
60 Vocally : ALOUD
61 Private dinner? : MESS
62 __ gin : SLOE
63 Checks : DAMPS

DOWN

1 Red-bellied trout : CHAR
2 Some improvisation in Hindi cinema : RAGAS
3 2002 meta dramedy starring Nicolas Cage as the film’s screenwriter : ADAPTATION
4 Light shows? : SITCOMS
5 Hot and heavy : STEAMY
6 Mozart’s “__ fan tutte” : COSI
7 Vicinity : AREA
8 In the vicinity : NEAR
9 Little one : TOT
10 Fine line : THREAD
11 One joule per second : WATT
12 Great Plains st. : OKLA
13 Catches : SEES
16 Stunning : SUBLIME
20 Biden and Harris, initially : VPS
23 Toppled : FELL
25 Pain in the neck : CRICK
26 So : HENCE
27 First man to complete tennis’s Surface Slam : NADAL
28 Shipping center? : ENGINE ROOM
29 Top : ROOF
30 Poke : JAB
31 Historical allies of the Huron : ERIE
34 Point : DOT
36 Burn slowly : SMOLDER
37 Nuisance : PEST
41 Slopes conveyance : GONDOLA
43 Spots for roasters and toasters : DAISES
44 Large deer : ELK
45 “Them’s the breaks” : TOO BAD
48 Preparatory period : RUN-UP
49 Grad : ALUM
50 Retinal cell : CONE
51 Retinal cells : RODS
52 Marsh duck : TEAL
53 Apropos of : AS TO
54 “Who __ kidding?” : IS HE
55 Scrip orders : MEDS
57 Anti bloc : NOS

LA Times Crossword Answers Friday October 6th 2023

Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday October 6th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Rum mixer : COKE
5 Tarot suit : CUPS
9 Destructive bug : BORER
14 Receptive : OPEN
15 Draft choice : ONE-A
16 New car option : LEASE
17 *Litter collection vehicles? : PUP TRUCKS
19 Laudatory poet : ODIST
20 First baseball team to play in a dome : ASTROS
21 “Birthplace of Aviation” : OHIO
23 __ salt : SEA
24 *Malcolm’s status at the end of “Macbeth”? : ALIVE AND KING
27 Writer who populated the Hundred Acre Wood : AA MILNE
30 Shade in four-color printing : CYAN
31 Actor Reeves : KEANU
32 Mission control org. : NASA
35 Scale abbr. : LBS
37 Fish sticks fish : COD
38 *”Arf” or “meow”? : PET LINE
41 “Tubular!” : RAD
43 Trawling need : NET
45 Future atty.’s exam : LSAT
46 Quick-as-lightning Bolt : USAIN
48 City near the heel of Italy’s boot : BARI
50 Supplementary items : ADDENDA
52 *Source of friction when a messy person lives with a neatnik? : STY SITUATION
56 __-di-dah : LAH
57 See 26-Down : PENN
58 Regret not wearing a coat, say : FREEZE
62 Degrade : ABASE
64 Measure of grossness avoided in the answers to the starred clues? : ICK FACTOR
66 Forbidden things : NO-NOS
67 “America the Beautiful” pronoun : THEE
68 “Frozen” princess : ANNA
69 Beckett title character who is not in the cast : GODOT
70 Rise sky-high : SOAR
71 Fifth Avenue retailer : SAKS

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1 __ Mundial de Fútbol : COPA
2 Major work : OPUS
3 Maintained : KEPT
4 Board, in a way : ENTRAIN
5 Reunion attendee : COUSIN
6 5-Down’s dad, for short : UNC
7 Tea type : PEKOE
8 Obama daughter : SASHA
9 __ Mary : BLOODY
10 Wordsmith’s ref. : OED
11 Post production? : RAISIN BRAN
12 Steel city north of Cologne : ESSEN
13 Put on sale, say : RETAG
18 Arrive, as in a limo : ROLL UP
22 Like some ancient Peruvian pottery : INCAN
25 Air ducts : VENTS
26 With 57-Across, co-star in the “Harold & Kumar” film series : KAL
27 Pedigree registry since 1884: Abbr. : AKC
28 Long, long time : AEON
29 Like all ancient Peruvian pottery : MADE BY HAND
33 In the style of : A LA
34 Occupy, as a desk : SIT AT
36 “__ no one ever” : SAID
39 Top-tier : ELITE
40 Author Welty : EUDORA
42 Crime lab material : DNA
44 Some Ph.D. students : TAS
47 Native New Yorkers : SENECAS
49 Best for picking : RIPEST
51 “I beg to __” : DIFFER
52 Word on the street? : SLANG
53 Like 66-Across : TABOO
54 Liters and meters : UNITS
55 Dried Mexican chile : ANCHO
59 Sicilian mount : ETNA
60 Fall fast asleep, with “out” : ZONK
61 Eventful times : ERAS
63 Phillipa of “Hamilton” : SOO
65 Hawaii’s Mauna __ : KEA