Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday May 24th 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Point guard? : PEN CAP
7 Rihanna song with the lyrics “That was quite a show / Very entertaining / But it’s over now” : TAKE A BOW
15 Harlem theater : APOLLO
16 Upper management? : HAIRCARE
17 Going from A to B, say : LINEAR
18 Far from fresh : OVERUSED
19 Wave home : OCEAN
20 Uber around the Eiffel Tower? : TRES
21 Uncles, in Spanish : TIOS
22 Save, in a way : DVR
23 China’s first imperial dynasty : QIN
24 2, 4, and 24, e.g. : EVENS
26 Negative post? : PRE
27 Many a TV episode title : PUN
28 The Grand _ Opry : OLE
29 Foreign exchange issue : LANGUAGE BARRIER
36 Imposition lead-in : I’M TERRIBLY SORRY
37 Setting for Haiti : EASTERN TIME ZONE
38 Journey part : LEG
39 Brahma, for one : GOD
40 Gaming release of 1985 : NES
41 “Neat” : SWELL
44 “_ Explain Things to Me”: Rebecca Solnit essay collection : MEN
45 Paul with an axe : LES
46 “Neat” : COOL
47 Relaxation locations : SPAS
49 Precipitated : LED TO
51 Public : ON RECORD
53 Frymaster filler : HOT OIL
54 Fiction title? : MISNOMER
55 Not busy : AROUND
56 React slightly : BAT AN EYE
57 Tutor’s charge : MENTEE
DOWN
1 Word for “stick” found in a Bay Area city name : PALO
2 “Shogun,” for one : EPIC DRAMA
3 Duds : NONEVENTS
4 “Let’s be ” : CLEAR
5 “Reacher” star Ritchson : ALAN
6 Iberian country, on Olympic scoreboards : POR
7 Rose barb : THORN
8 Dialectical source of “no cap” and “down bad,” for short : AAVE
9 “Long Division” novelist who wrote “Heavy: An American Memoir” : KIESE LAYMON
10 Get it wrong : ERR
11 Angle type : ACUTE
12 Wide bowl : BASIN
13 Fried : fair fare : OREOS
14 Commits to, in a way : WEDS
20 Giving a bit of color : TINGING
23 Pacific counterpart : QUARRELSOME
25 Knowledgeable : VERSED
26 Ballet bend : PLIE
27 Hand sanitizer brand : PURELL
28 Does as asked : OBLIGES
30 Trick : GET
31 Grocery payment meth. : EBT
32 Marsha Warfield’s “Night Court” role : ROZ
33 Put right : IRONED OUT
34 Human rights activist Eckstein who is profiled in Season 4 of the “Making Gay History” podcast : ERNESTINE
35 Some deli loaves : RYES
41 Supreme Court name : SONIA
42 Lowest-tier : WORST
43 Supreme Court name : ELENA
44 Sierra _ : MADRE
45 Show a tell : LET ON
46 Search thoroughly : COMB
48 2022 “Predator” prequel : PREY
49 Focus of many fandom wiki pages : LORE
50 Ye _ Shoppe : OLDE
52 Trick : CON
53 Cubano ingredient : HAM
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