Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday July 2nd 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Makeshift instrument : JUG
4 Chess champion Garry : KASPAROV
12 First down yardage amount : TEN
15 “Float like a butterfly” boxer : ALI
16 Forget to set the oven timer, maybe : OVERBAKE
17 Wrath : IRE
18 “Headbangers Ball” airer : MTV
19 Breakfast: cereal : RICE CHEX
20 Gaping opening : MAW
21 Made, as beer : BREWED
23 Reader’s _ : DIGEST
25 Malia’s sister : SASHA
26 “A Fine Romance” composer Jerome : KERN
30 “No ”: “Perfect!” : NOTES
31 Lunch: fast-food sandwich : WENDY’S BURGER
34 Gravitate (toward) : LEAN
36 Camry competitor : ALTIMA
37 Seemingly never-ending story : SAGA
40 Poison : IVY
41 Letter between pi and sigma : RHO
42 Cyclops feature : EYE
44 Sacred oath : VOW
45 Curriculum _ : VITAE
47 Backside : REAR
50 First-year cadet : PLEBE
52 Dinner: seafood pasta : LOBSTER RAVIOLI
55 “That’s my experience too” : I CAN RELATE
56 Like windshields on winter mornings : ICED UP
59 Like 1% milk : LOW FAT
63 Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or what 19-, 31-, and 52-Across literally are : THREE SQUARE MEALS
68 Org. chasing Jason Bourne : CIA
69 Opening stage : ROUND ONE
70 Letters on Megan Rapinoe’s jersey : USA
71 Contains : HAS
72 Heard things? : NOISES
73 Neither partner : NOR
DOWN
1 Places for mezuzahs : JAMBS
2 Extreme : ULTRA
3 Steps aside for : GIVES WAY TO
4 The “K” of K-drama : KOREAN
5 Eager : AVID
6 “Wait just a ” : SEC
7 Beginning of history? : PRE-
8 Kimmel’s network : ABC
9 Rally cry : RAH
10 Approved : OKED
11 Like some brain teasers : VEXING
12 Leap years? : TIME TRAVEL
13 Rub out : ERASE
14 Stream skitterers : NEWTS
22 Line on an invite : WHEN
24 “Who there?” : GOES
26 Son of Han Solo and Princess Leia : KYLO REN
27 Approximate fig. : EST
28 Hitter’s stat : RBI
29 Digit : NUMERAL
32 “Well, lah-di-!” : DAH
33 Cartilaginous fish that may have a whiplike tail : RAY
34 Tyler of “The Leftovers” : LIV
35 Really bad : EVIL
38 Mongolian desert : GOBI
39 Wonderment : AWE
41 One running toward disaster, presumably : RESCUER
43 Embodiment : EPITOME
46 Put up with : ABIDE
48 Goof up : ERR
49 “_ you sure?” : ARE
51 Lerner’s partner on Broadway : LOEWE
53 Tests, as a microphone : TAPS ON
54 “La Bamba” singer Ritchie : VALENS
56 Hydrocortisone cream target : ITCH
57 Kombucha seeds : CHIA
58 Presidential spans : ERAS
60 Half-man, half-goat : FAUN
61 “Plus … ” : ALSO
62 Russian monarch : TSAR
64 Status _ : QUO
65 Oxford, e.g., to locals : UNI
66 Podcast interrupters : ADS
67 Tobiko or masago : ROE
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