Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday March 5th 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Update a historic home, say: REHAB
6 Quick look: PEEP
10 “Dream on”: AS IF
14 Enlighten: EDIFY
15 Crooner Paul: ANKA
16 Novela introduction?: TELE-
17 Fleetwood Mac hit with the lyric “I’ll settle for one day to believe in you”: LITTLE LIES
19 Jai : ALAI
20 Pro vote: YEA
21 Ingrid’s “Casablanca” role: ILSA
22 Strenuous: TIRING
24 Prefix with tech: NANO-
26 Taylor Swift hit that features a sweater metaphor: CARDIGAN
28 Milwaukee team: BREWERS
31 “The Daily” podcast producer, briefly: NYT
32 Special glow: AURA
33 Paul of “The Batman”: DANO
35 Venomous snake: ADDER
40 Elvis Presley hit about someone who only looks like an angel: DEVIL IN DISGUISE
43 Be of : help: USE TO
44 Point, California: DANA
45 Summer getaway: CAMP
46 Govt. intel org.: NSA
48 Gets to giggle: TICKLES
50 Rihanna hit about friends who stick together rain or shine: UMBRELLA
55 For fear that: LEST
56 See 50-Down: NIGIRI
57 Quite bright: NEON
59 Alley-: OOP
62 Actor Alda: ALAN
63 Musical remakes, and what 17-, 26-, 40-, and 50-Across all are, in a way: COVER SONGS
66 Rare rocks: GEMS
67 Sinister: EVIL
68 Verdi work: OPERA
69 “Gotcha”: I SEE
70 “The Voice” host Carson: DALY
71 Elevates: RISES
DOWN
1 Depend (on): RELY
2 Actress Falco: EDIE
3 Touched on something touchy: HIT A NERVE
4 Back of the boat: AFT
5 Author credit: BYLINE
6 Buds: PALS
7 Pioneering computer: ENIAC
8 Scrape (by): EKE
9 Danish, e.g.: PASTRY
10 Pong platform: ATARI
11 Former baseball commissioner Bud: SELIG
12 Glazer of “Broad City”: ILANA
13 Pretend: FEIGN
18 “Euphoria” actor Jacob: ELORDI
23 Pet collar attachment: ID TAG
25 Stand by for: AWAIT
27 Designate as a successor: ANOINT
28 Grammy winner Erykah: BADU
29 Feels remorse: RUES
30 Flip-flop, e.g.: SANDAL
34 Confidentiality contract, for short: NDA
36 Dodges: DUCKS
37 Landline sounds: DIAL TONES
38 “Twilight” vampire Cullen: ESME
39 Gym count: REPS
41 Not a people person, say: LONER
42 Mariner: SAILOR
47 Prepared to serve, as pie: SLICED
49 Black out: CENSOR
50 With 56-Across, grilled eel dish: UNAGI
51 Odometer units: MILES
52 Not one’s best effort: B-GAME
53 Flush: RINSE
54 Blacksmith’s block: ANVIL
58 Wriggly: EELY
60 Fantasy monster: OGRE
61 Unpaid ads: PSAS
64 Egg cells: OVA
65 Maker of Lincoln Park After Dark nail polish: OPI
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