Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday April 23rd 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Fish tacos fish, familiarly : MAHI
5 Give a ring : PHONE
10 Portland-to-Boise dir. : ESE
13 Revered figures : ICONS
15 Ingested : EATEN
16 Bolt : RUN
17 *Call to Rapunzel : LET DOWN YOUR HAIR
20 Largest African antelope : ELAND
21 Party with a piñata : FIESTA
22 *Outmoded forms of payment for some commuters : BUS TOKENS
26 Move stealthily : CREEP
27 Tension : UNEASE
28 Home to three of Massachusetts’ Five Colleges : AMHERST
30 Bagel shop : DELI
31 Free, in a way : UNTIE
33 *Like a beagle but not a corgi : FLOPPY-EARED
38 Puffed on an e-cigarette : VAPED
39 Honey liquor : MEAD
42 Innocence : NAIVETE
46 NPR White House correspondent __ Keith : TAMARA
48 Big name in kitchen appliances : OSTER
49 *Western vacation destination : DUDE RANCH
52 Vitriolic rant : TIRADE
54 Get fit for competition : TRAIN
55 Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue : FAILURE TO LAUNCH
60 Stone or ice follower : AGE
61 Eco-friendly vehicles : BIKES
62 Smooth change in topics : SEGUE
63 K’Nex connector : ROD
64 Clairvoyants : SEERS
65 “So many!” : LOTS
DOWN
1 Domain suffix for a private employer : .MIL
2 Star pitcher : ACE
3 Like cayenne : HOT
4 Painstakingly precise : IN DETAIL
5 Tubular pasta : PENNE
6 Composer Joseph who mentored Mozart and Beethoven : HAYDN
7 Great Plains Native : OTO
8 Nine, in Normandy : NEUF
9 Agent that gets good results : ENRICHER
10 Soft end of a pencil : ERASER
11 Multiroom accommodations : SUITES
12 Mesmerized : ENRAPT
14 Pilots’ milestones : SOLOS
18 Ship follower : WAKE
19 Present : HERE
22 Sign of spring : BUD
23 Half of deux : UNE
24 Subject of an autobiography : SELF
25 Quenched : SATED
29 Soccer star Hamm : MIA
31 Boosted : UPPED
32 “Science Guy” Bill : NYE
34 Layers audio tracks : OVERDUBS
35 Gentle touch : PAT
36 President of France Macron : EMMANUEL
37 College bigwig : DEAN
40 Path of a fly ball : ARC
41 “Well, lah-di-!” : DAH
42 In the vicinity : NOT FAR
43 Italian cheese with a nutty flavor : ASIAGO
44 “Did my best” : I TRIED
45 Scaloppine meat : VEAL
46 Blue-green hue : TEAL
47 Prima donnas’ songs : ARIAS
50 Vocalize : UTTER
51 Trivial matter : DROSS
53 Great Lake that drains into the Niagara River : ERIE
56 out a living : EKE
57 Private aid gp. : NGO
58 Trim : CUT
59 “__ making a list … ” : HE’S
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