Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday May 18th 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Insurer with a fowl mascot : AFLAC
6 LED screen alternative : LCD TV
11 Fourth-yr. students : SRS
14 Slice and dice, perhaps : PREP
18 Stylish Geoffrey : BEENE
19 Chicago hub : O’HARE
20 Aim : GOAL
21 Holiday lights spot : EAVE
22 Trumpet sounds : BLATS
23 Decor updates : REDOS
24 Old school : ALMA MATER
26 One minding everyone’s p’s and q’s? : ALPHABET SUPERVISOR
29 Most articles in The Onion : SATIRES
30 Shaft on a unicycle : AXLE
31 Place of rapid development : HOTBED
35 Short, made shorter : LIL’
36 One of 30 in septiembre : DIA
39 Pub order : PINT
41 Aerial footage provider : DRONE
42 Cruise ship physician? : FLOATING DOCTOR
46 British school since 1440 : ETON
47 Bikini tops : BRAS
49 Biblical prophet : HOSEA
50 Hit the deck again? : RE-DEALT
52 Palais figure : ROI
53 Luncheonette worker? : COUNTER WAITER
58 “Magic 3” rapper : NAS
59 Utterly destroyed : IN RUINS
61 __-Dame de Paris : NOTRE
62 Happy cry : YAY
64 Ancient pyramid builders : MAYANS
65 Hair product that creates a wet look : GEL
68 Formerly named : NEE
69 Tiny listening device : EARBUD
72 Beginning of time? : TEE
73 Tri-tip, e.g. : STEAK
75 Balaclava : SKI MASK
76 Barnyard bleat : MAA
78 Banker offering a penny for your thoughts? : MEMORY CASHIER
83 Doll once sold with mustache and sideburn decals : KEN
84 Jack Ma’s company : ALIBABA
86 Name on a rap sheet : ALIAS
87 Inventor/actress Lamarr : HEDY
88 Most populous city in southwest Colombia : CALI
89 Artisan who specializes in life-size replicas of bison? : BUFFALO BUILDER
95 Asteroids named for a Roman god : AMORS
97 Covered in gold : GILT
98 Subj. for some immigrants : ESL
99 Browser address : URL
100 Passed in tedious fashion : WORE ON
102 Upswing : BOOM
104 Finger painting? : NAIL ART
108 Character in “Driving Miss Piggy”? : THE MUPPET CHAUFFEUR
113 Idylls : PASTORALS
116 Accounts : TALES
117 Info on a museum placard : TITLE
118 Seller of Storå loft beds : IKEA
119 High-chair feature : TRAY
120 Put on a pedestal : EXALT
121 Sea eagles : ERNES
122 NL East team with a “curly W” logo : NATS
123 Rte. displays : STS
124 Charmingly silly : DIPPY
125 Beloved ones : DEARS
DOWN
1 Arafat’s successor : ABBAS
2 Guy : FELLA
3 Navigated furniture in a game of the floor is lava, say : LEAPT
4 Digs for bugs? : ANTHILLS
5 Viola’s false identity in “Twelfth Night” : CESARIO
6 Unlike a 6-Across, say : LO-RES
7 Guitarist Atkins known as the “Country Gentleman” : CHET
8 Root beer brand : DAD’S
9 Pants, in slang : TROU
10 Scooter whose name means “wasp” in Italian : VESPA
11 Out of debt : SOLVENT
12 Oscar winner Malek : RAMI
13 Punctuation in a 99-Across : SLASH
14 Orchard figure : PEAR TREE
15 Rodent in some zodiacs : RAT
16 Sistine Chapel figure : EVE
17 “As __ my last email … ” : PER
20 Pasta sauce staple : GARLIC
25 Subjunctive, e.g. : MOOD
27 Banjoist Fleck : BELA
28 “Star Wars” Celebration, e.g. : EXPO
32 One working with flower and dough? : BOTANY BAKER
33 Sherlock’s sister : ENOLA
34 Big dings : DENTS
36 Singer Celine : DION
37 Pt. of RIT : INST
38 Outfielder Tommie who was AL Rookie of the Year in 1966 : AGEE
40 Rich layer cake : TORTE
42 Couturier for Tinker Bell? : FAIRY TAILOR
43 Therefore : THUS
44 Mend with yarn : DARN
45 Food writer Drummond : REE
47 Cup edge : BRIM
48 Novelist Jaffe : RONA
51 Desert feature : DRY AIR
53 Washington venue? : CINEMA
54 Add-: extras : ONS
55 Finished first : WON
56 Finished off : ATE
57 Outrage : IRE
60 Dubai’s country, briefly : UAE
63 Sleeve : ARM
65 1960s muscle car : GTO
66 Eternally, in verse : E’ER
67 “ it on me” : LAY
69 Squeeze (out) : EKE
70 Took advantage of : USED
71 Big Apple fashion label : DKNY
73 Tolkien dragon : SMAUG
74 Heat meas. : KCAL
75 Spanish “Yes, yes!” : SI SI
76 Bright parrot : MACAW
77 Site of an 1836 siege : ALAMO
79 Tidal movement : EBB
80 Sunscreen additive : ALOE
81 Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, e.g. : SIBS
82 Transport by semi : HAUL
85 Caps worn during conclave : BIRETTAS
87 Inferno of the damned : HELLFIRE
90 Leg bones : FIBULAS
91 Mopsy’s sister : FLOPSY
92 Perched upon : ATOP
93 Affair with ti leaves : LUAU
94 Stared off into space : DRIFTED
96 London district near Oxford Circus : SOHO
101 “Dagnabbit” : NERTS
103 Portioned (out) : METED
104 “So gross!” : NASTY
105 MetLife competitor : AETNA
106 Tool that’s made to measure : RULER
107 Hair piece? : TRESS
109 K or Wal finale : -MART
110 Cab : TAXI
111 Give a hand : CLAP
112 Lend a hand : HELP
113 Brooch : PIN
114 Letters before an 86-Across : AKA
115 Good to go : SET
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