LA Times Crossword

October 18, 2026 Answers

Every Across and Down clue from the LA Times Crossword on October 18, 2026. Tap any tile to reveal a letter, or click the clue text for the full breakdown.

144
Total Clues
71
Across
73
Down
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Across 71

Audition hopeful
Come & Get It! pet food brand
D-backs st.
Noisy, as a crowd
Traditional source of wood for baseball bats
Cut-rate vacation rentals?
Pickles
Basic framework
Prankster?
"Scrubs" role for Judy Reyes
Corporate VIPs
Large Hadron Collider org.
Poor grade
Fizzled out
Shot in the arm, say
Simplicity
Vedder of Pearl Jam
Periphery
IRS convenience
Cake mix need
Primer mes del año
Winged archer
Decorative jugs
Leftover
__ bean
Played a pipe in a parade
Helsinki native
Rowlands with an Honorary Academy Award
Barbie's boo
Fortune
Make mittens, perhaps
Bank investment?
"12-Point Type: A History"?
Word with brow or blow
With 16-Down, official cocktail of the city of Oakland
Chutney fruit
Home network need
Silver-white metal
Figure in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition
Had a snack
Orca habitat
"You for Me" singer Rita
Some language exams
Chimp kin
On the periphery
Motto of a therapist who uses origami to teach anger management?
Well-worn trail
Driveway brick
Useful tool in making some Thanksgiving pies?
Fillable flatbreads
Versace parent company
Like fabric in a quilting kit
Issa of "Insecure"
"MasterChef" host Gordon
Gain back
Upgrade, as machinery
Dance club version, say
Showed again
Frames
Teams
"No __!"
PowerPoint unit
Escalator part
Perform terribly
H-Town ALer
Words to live by
Eyelash treatment
Playpen denizen
Short message of gratitude
Morning-after-the-wedding stories?
Like a car made between 1919 and 1930

Down 73

Adapter letters
Ranch units
Wise words
Tack on
Correspond
"Devious Maids" star
Roddick who was the last American man to win the US Open
Hathaway of "The Odyssey"
Zodiac ram
Melodic passage
Big name in classic travel guides
Un-locked?
Figure, casually
Adam's eldest
The dog days of summer?
One with next-level skills in being thoughtful and compassionate?
"Priscilla" writer/director Sofia
Basic bed
Strong urge
Towel off
Tuner's asset
Down source
Long time
Cy Young stat
PC "oops" key
Springsteen's __ Band
Forest plants
Mozilla web browser
Fin
Really bothers
Just chilling
Prefix with structure
Mighty mad
Some pub pals
Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick
Strike zone?
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" speaker
"Not one word of this is true!"
Island feast
Attic pests
Damp
Automatic drip-brew pioneer
Highlighter hue
Claim on some menus
"I don't have all day!"
All-father of Norse myth
Coming right up
Magic, on sports tickers
Split __ soup
Energy
__ in a blanket
Leader of the Holy See
Primp
Slice and dice, perhaps
Overly inquisitive sort
Tools with teeth
Disorderly place
Lanai furniture material
Raise
Hoka rival
Form of energy healing
"Guardians of the Galaxy" voice role for Bradley Cooper
The continents, e.g.
Cut
Slyly cutting
Half note feature
Walking noisily
See 76-Across
Wee
Clobber
Tanzania neighbor
Brink
Ivy, for one

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