Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday May 17th 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Toss : SCRAP
6 “The Sound of Music” backdrop, briefly : WWII
10 Start and end of New Mexico’s Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway : TAOS
14 “Put your phone down” : TOUCH GRASS
16 Side with? : ABUT
17 Quarterfinalists : ELITE EIGHT
18 French head : TETE
19 Chaps : MEN
20 Folder’s forfeit : ANTE
21 Polite gesture : HAT TIP
23 “Say no more” : I SEE
24 Lollygags : DALLIES
25 Some memory triggers : AROMAS
28 Feels for : PITIES
29 Lightweight material : LINEN
30 Unconscious _ : BIAS
31 “And there you have it” : TA-DA
34 Happy accident : A FEATURE, NOT A BUG
37 Connected by a common thread : SEWN
38 Take into account : NOTE
39 Two-time WNBA MVP _ Delle Donne : ELENA
40 Time for curls : ARM DAY
42 UNESCO City of Literature in Devon : EXETER
43 Multifaceted : LAYERED
45 Sheep sounds : BAAS
46 One vertex of the Summer Triangle : ALTAIR
47 Cobra or bridge surfaces : MATS
48 Sign of success : SRO
51 Designer Lagerfeld : KARL
52 Uninterested in the party scene, perhaps : APOLITICAL
55 Comedian Wakim who is the first Lebanese American cast member of “SNL” : EMIL
56 Texter’s “Hey, boo” : GHOST EMOJI
57 Viscous : ROPY
58 Chef Lewis who specialized in Southern cooking : EDNA
59 City on the Nile north of Lake Nasser : ASWAN
DOWN
1 Cherry picker’s target : STEM
2 2023 AL Cy Young winner Gerrit : COLE
3 Demolish : RUIN
4 Pretend : ACT
5 Gallinaceous bird native to Eurasia : PHEASANT
6 Dash off : WRITE
7 Pay : WAGE
8 “Plus or minus” : ISH
9 Skeptical response : IS THAT SO?
10 Folks who tend to give things away : TATTLETALES
11 Payment guarantee? : A BET IS A BET
12 Navel type : OUTIE
13 Tally on some trackers : STEPS
15 Small inheritance? : GENES
22 Boxing legend : ALI
23 “They cannot be serious” : I MEAN, REALLY
24 Guerrero of “Doom Patrol” : DIANE
25 Sigh of woe : ALAS
26 Teeming (with) : RIFE
27 Journey in a relocation : ONE-WAY TRIP
28 Devotion : PIETY
30 Overarching : BROAD
32 Timothée Chalamet epic set on a desert planet : DUNE
33 Petri dish gelatin : AGAR
35 In the minority? : UNDERAGE
36 Crude, slangily : TEXAS TEA
41 CT scan kin : MRI
42 Fail big-time : EAT IT
43 Former Minneapolis NBA player : LAKER
44 Site of Crockett’s last stand : ALAMO
45 Material for crafts and rafts : BALSA
47 New __ : MOON
48 Garbage barge : SCOW
49 Indian royal : RAJA
50 Actor/director Ken : OLIN
53 High deg. : PHD
54 Uses Kik, say : IMS
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