Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday June 21st 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Ocean spray? : SEA SALT
8 Sings the blues : ACTS SAD
15 Flurry : HUSTLE AND BUSTLE
17 Particulars from behind closed doors : INTIMATE DETAILS
18 Capital of Cambodia : RIELS
19 States : AVERS
20 __ service : LIP
21 Space that may be kind of a lot : ACRE
22 Signs : OMENS
23 Numbers game : KENO
24 Really chill : ZEN
25 Highlands estate owner : LAIRD
26 One duo and two trios : OCTET
27 Works from home? : BATS
28 Command performances? : SALUTES
30 Nancy, to Fritzi Ritz : NIECE
32 Surveyor’s support : BIPOD
33 Game for pick-y people : LOTTERY
35 CLE team : CAVS
36 Final challenge, perhaps : ESSAY
37 Spark joy in : ELATE
39 NL players since 2022 : DHS
42 Groks : GETS
43 No-hit performance? : B-SIDE
44 Drink choice : NEAT
45 “How To Triumph Like a Girl” poet Limón : ADA
46 New York minute : TRICE
47 One-off : NONCE
48 “It came back to me so easily!” : LIKE RIDING A BIKE
51 “Let me worry about that” : I’VE GOT IT COVERED
52 Signified : DENOTED
53 Text-style workers : EDITORS
DOWN
1 Red selection : SHIRAZ
2 Carol Burnett character : EUNICE
3 Toward a paddle wheel : ASTERN
4 Steps over a wall : STILE
5 Element of the Third Pillar of Islam : ALMS
6 Green span : LEA
7 Tea ceremony surfaces : TATAMIS
8 Plus ones? : ADDENDS
9 Many semi pros : CB’ERS
10 Sounds of contempt : TUTS
11 Retirement income org. : SSA
12 Lift provider on a runway : STILETTO
13 Only Top 40 hit for actor/singer Jack Wagner : ALL I NEED
14 Tyrants : DESPOTS
16 “Give up?” comeback : NEVER
22 Western : OATER
23 Trademarked pods : K-CUPS
25 Chabert of “Mean Girls” : LACEY
26 Fruit in caponata : OLIVE
27 Almost-ready versions : BETAS
29 Ease up : ABATE
30 Plummet : NOSEDIVE
31 “Don’t sit there” : IT’S TAKEN
33 Passport, for one : LEGAL ID
34 “Guilty as charged” : YES I DID
35 Rhythmic flow : CADENCE
38 Permissible : LICIT
39 “Taxi Driver” Oscar nominee : DE NIRO
40 Cyberwarrior, sometimes : HACKER
41 Lipizzans, e.g. : STEEDS
43 “Rainbow ”: classic cartoon that inspired collectible dolls : BRITE
44 “Check” : NO BET
46 Turkey : TROT
47 Blue species native to Pandora : NA’VI
49 Comedian Nwodim : EGO
50 Ragnarok figure : GOD
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