Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday August 2nd 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Strategic chess move, casually : SAC
4 Vegetable in Nigerian cuisine : TARO
8 41-Across developer : SALK
12 Thin reed : OBOE
14 Each : A POP
15 Home of the Nubian Pyramids : SUDAN
16 Handy navigational aids : ARROW KEYS
18 Came to the surface : AROSE
19 Chap with chaps, perhaps : RANCHER
20 “Let’s meet up then” : I’M FREE
21 Cold draft in the winter, say : SEASONAL BEER
24 Not altogether in the altogether : SCANTILY CLAD
26 Least sanguine : PALEST
27 Niger neighbor : CHAD
28 Opposite of fore : AFT
31 Org. that accepts returns : IRS
32 Ballpark souvenir : CAP
34 Hockey great Tikkanen from Finland : ESA
35 Opposing vote : NAY
36 Brew that might have ice or spice in it : TEA
37 “Glad and big” protagonist of an e.e. cummings poem : OLAF
39 Tie : KNOT UP
41 Major medical breakthrough of the 1950s : POLIO VACCINE
43 Places for puffers : SMOKING AREAS
45 Shell casing? : PIE TIN
46 Tidbits : MORSELS
49 City west of the Wasatch Mountains : OGDEN
50 Salvadoran eatery : PUPUSERIA
52 Area of expertise, casually : THING
53 Brownie point? : OVEN
54 Home of many a steppe family : YURT
55 Fantasy football datum : STAT
56 “Charlie’s Angels” star Cheryl : LADD
57 Astronaut Jemison : MAE
DOWN
1 Reach great heights : SOAR
2 Pokémon that ultimately evolves into Alakazam : ABRA
3 Summery dip : CORN SALSA
4 Savors the moment : TAKES IT ALL IN
5 Liqueur similar to Campari : APEROL
6 Dodgers legend Campanella : ROY
7 Covert _ : OPS
8 Enjoyed the motion of the ocean : SURFED
9 Crush on : ADORE
10 Element of a security grid in many an action film : LASER
11 Arthroscopy target : KNEE
13 Epoch that produced the earliest primate fossils : EOCENE
15 Carnival performers : SAMBA DANCERS
17 “Something smells good in here!” : WHAT’S COOKING
20 “Someone in my circle probably knows the answer” : I’LL ASK AROUND
22 Loc. of an annual November marathon : NYC
23 Need kneading, maybe : ACHE
24 Bar tended to at a cookout : SPIT
25 _ package : CARE
28 Source of immunity : ANTISERUM
29 Satyr kin : FAUN
30 “Just My : A Book About Fonts” : TYPE
33 Annoyance : PAIN
38 Concert stage effect : FOG
40 “Juno and the Paycock” playwright : O’CASEY
41 Heady : POTENT
42 Took off at a jazz club : VAMPED
43 Spectacle : SIGHT
44 fast : MEDIA
45 Kitchen stack : POTS
47 Source of some Turkish delight? : LIRA
48 Fully appease : SATE
50 D.C. insider : POL
51 Cavaliers sch. : UVA
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