LA Times Crossword Answers for May 1 2026
Every Across and Down clue from today’s LA Times Crossword, with the answers spelled out. Edited by Patti Varol.
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Presents inaccurately as data
SKEWS
Maker of Inzone gaming gear
SONY
Gastropub pours
ALES
Program broadcast from Rockefeller Plaza
TODAY
Tarot figure carrying a bindle
FOOL
Net
EARN
Home of Creighton University
OMAHA
Place to find ones credit history?
IMDB
Words are but wind?
METAMETAPHOR
Lifeblood
ESSENCE
Growing alarm
PANIC
Swim/bike/run races briefly
TRIS
Pressing the permanent press button?
IRONIRONY
Prefix with binary
NON
Comedian Wong
ALI
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for one
DUO
Like clockwork e.g.?
ANALOGANALOGY
Abnormal
ODD
Sticky stuff
GOO
Quaint affirmation
TIS
Pickling canning headspace annealing etc.?
JARJARGON
Org. that promotes vegan leather
PETA
Two-digit sign
PEACE
Created hazardous driving conditions perhaps
SLEETED
Color commentators remark about a zebra on the field?
REFREFERENCE
Succeeding
NEXT
St. Teresas birthplace
AVILA
Dramatic sigh
AHME
Biblical plot
EDEN
Bleachers shoutout
HIMOM
Address letters
HTTP
Chevrolet model until 2019
VOLT
Of course in Oviedo
CLARO
Departing word
CIAO
↓ Down
Put on
DON
Ranch sound
MOO
Hypotheticals
IFS
Not natural
MADE
Out of control
AMOK
Fries alternative
TOTS
Dada pioneer Max
ERNST
Collar supports
STAYS
Film compositions
SCORES
Half of a meditative refrain
INHALE
Rodeo cry
YEEHAW
Clinch
ICE
With quick movements
NIMBLY
Short decline
DIP
How viral videos might be played
ONREPEAT
__ luck!
LOTSA
Mop & __
GLO
Lunch hour for some
NOON
Lighting effect
AURA
Skyrocket
SOAR
Cusack of the Toy Story franchise
JOAN
Kim Possible sidekick __ Stoppable
RON
From the top
AGAIN
Terminus
END
Dirt Cheap country singer Johnson
CODY
Spellbound
AGOG
Audit firm exec
CPA
Cybercommerce
ETAIL
Boom operators need?
TNT
Latin law
LEX
Amanda Gormans An __ We Owe
ODE
Deceptive layer
VENEER
Yemen neighbor
OMAN
Part
ROLE
The Kite Runner boy
AMIR
Club record holder?
LIVEDJ
Abrade
CHAFE
Gilbert and Sullivan work
OPERETTA
Charge for cash
ATMFEE
Geek Squad offering
ITHELP
Nears burning
CHARS