LA Times Crossword Answers for May 14 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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Carefree
BLITHE
Mod About You polish maker
OPI
Mexican sandwich
TORTA
Like a bowstring
TAUT
Trade
SWAP
Playfully sly
ARCH
Endearment
PETNAME
Electrically adaptable
ACDC
__ Majesty
HER
Sazerac options
RYES
Artistic printing method, and a feature of rows 2, 5, 11, and 14 in this puzzle
WOODCUT
Abu Dhabi, e.g.
EMIRATE
Expanse crossed by Odysseus
IONIANSEA
Sanctions
OKAYS
Like van Gogh and Vermeer
DUTCH
Superlative suffix
EST
__-Grain
NUTRI
Breyers rival
EDYS
Tiny
WEE
Blades for some Olympians
EPEES
NYC home of Matisse's "Landscape at Collioure"
MOMA
Thurman of "Pretty Lethal"
UMA
Pizzeria array
PIES
Moral principle
ETHIC
"M*A*S*H" setting, for short
KOR
"Butterfly Dance" artist
YANNI
Put away
STASH
Under a spell
ENTRANCED
College where Robert Frost taught English
AMHERST
"Let's do it!"
IMGAME
Novice gamers, informally
NEWBS
Fail to share
HOG
Taylor-Joy of "The Northman"
ANYA
Skillets
FRYPANS
Area exposed by an updo
NAPE
Teases
RIBS
"__ it down!"
TONE
"Downton Abbey" cook
DAISY
Here, in Honduras
ACA
↓ Down
Power of classic films
TYRONE
Leak prevention measure, briefly
NDA
Home of the Cyclones
IOWASTATE
Hormel product
SPAM
Cry in pain
YIPE
Biblical rider of a red horse
WAR
Development sites
UTERI
Elements of a strategy
TACTICS
Move stealthily
SNEAKUP
Steve who co-founded YouTube
CHEN
S.F. summer hrs.
PDT
Stand
ABIDE
Easy part of a sky in a jigsaw puzzle, maybe
CLOUD
__ Moore: canned stew brand
DINTY
Oscar winner Witherspoon
REESE
"As if!"
HAH
Londoner's pal
MATE
Brontë orphan
EYRE
Darn
SEW
Certain sib
SIS
Moriarty, to Holmes
ENEMY
Jazzy James
ETTA
Guitar accessory that may create vibrato
WHAMMYBAR
Knights' neighbors
BISHOPS
Blueprint
SCHEMA
Luau instruments
UKES
May, say
MONTH
Skill
ART
Prehistoric supercontinent
PANGAEA
Like some pyramids
INCAN
Super Mario Bros. console
NES
Musician's better half?
SIDEA
Sweet potato
YAM
Latvian capital
RIGA
Cost
RANTO
Recipe quantity
ONECUP
Greek life group
FRAT
Part of P.R.
RICO
Calm
SOOTHE