Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday August 14th 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Picnic spoilers : ANTS
5 Dad jokes, often : PUNS
9 Hardly reticent : VOCAL
14 Zoom call button : JOIN
15 Privy to : IN ON
16 Works the soil : TILLS
17 With the bow, in music : ARCO
18 Muppet who refers to himself in the third person : ELMO
19 Detective Holmes : ENOLA
20 Slow-cooked rice dishes : RISOTTOS
22 Loosen, as shoelaces : UNKNOT
23 Sorts projects by priority : TRIAGES
25 CGI invaders : ETS
26 Summitt in the Basketball Hall of Fame : PAT
29 “__ of discussion” : END
30 Oxidize : RUST
33 Iridescent gems : OPALS
35 “Ugly Betty” actress : ANA ORTIZ
39 Common midcentury modern suburban home, or what is depicted by each set of circled letters : SPLIT-LEVEL HOUSE
42 Cadillac SUV : ESCALADE
43 Puts money in : ANTES
44 Steep-walled formation : MESA
45 Off-rd. ride : ATV
47 Game, , match : SET
48 Org. for locavores : CSA
51 Rahm who was U.S. Ambassador to Japan until 2025 : EMANUEL
54 First-stringers : A-TEAMS
57 Legendary reptile with a fatal gaze : BASILISK
61 Back in style : RETRO
62 Google : DOCS
63 Not twice : ONCE
64 Judges’ seats : BANCS
65 Pernicious : EVIL
66 Rip-off : SCAM
67 Big hit : SMASH
68 Target of CRISPR editing : GENE
69 50+ group : AARP
DOWN
1 Partly open : AJAR
2 Seaweed wrapper on Spam musubi : NORI
3 Small spasms : TICS
4 Snob : SNOOT
5 Tart pan : PIE TIN
6 Vent frustration : UNLOAD
7 Claim on some ramen packets : NO MSG
8 -Caps : SNO
9 Powerful engine : V-TEN
10 Porcine noise : OINK
11 Exact copy : CLONE
12 Apportion : ALLOT
13 Exams for future AGs : LSATS
21 Railroad support : TRESTLE
22 Normal : USUAL
24 Sea eagle : ERNE
26 Cat or cow, e.g., in yoga : POSE
27 Starters, casually : APPS
28 Soft mineral : TALC
31 “Me too” : SO HAVE I
32 1982 film set inside a mainframe : TRON
34 Actor Neeson : LIAM
35 Wide st. : AVE
36 Sounds of rebuke : TUTS
37 “Understood” : I SEE
38 Key lime pie garnish : ZEST
40 Cuts with a beam : LASES
41 Semisoft cheese : EDAM
45 Big name in headache remedies : ANACIN
46 Scuffle : TUSSLE
48 Nutrients eschewed on Atkins : CARBS
49 Momentum : STEAM
50 Insurer owned by CVS Health : AETNA
52 On top of : ABOVE
53 Literature Nobelist Mario Vargas : LLOSA
55 Story lines : ARCS
56 __ pit : MOSH
58 Machu Picchu native : INCA
59 Mark that may be emotional or physical : SCAR
60 Dole’s 1996 running mate : KEMP
62 Ph.D., for one : DEG
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