LA Times Crossword Answers for May 15 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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Shakespearean "Listen up!," or an apt title for this puzzle?
LENDMEYOUREARS
Lets go
FREES
SoCal emer. force
LAFD
Puts away
EATS
French street
RUE
Starts a top-to-bottom demolition of an old facade?
BREAKSTHECORNICE
Drink suffix
ADE
Biblical suffix
ETH
Private aid gp.
NGO
Largest U.S. union
NEA
Writer Harte or wrestler Hart
BRET
Longtime college football coach Nick
SABAN
Vintage violin
AMATI
Smack
SWAT
Scoundrel
KNAVE
Almanac info
TIDES
Cover, in a way
PAVE
Alpine song
YODEL
Put away
STASH
Big Apple resident, for short
NYER
Wine cocktail also called blanc-cassis
KIR
Urban network
ROADS
Parts of some locks
HASPS
Boring outcome?
HOLE
Go up to
ENDAT
Yamaha woodwinds
OBOES
SNAP benefits org.
USDA
San Antonio site
ALAMO
Take part financially
BUYIN
Apparel worn between December 22 and January 19?
CAPRICORNPANTS
Urban haze
SMOG
Mortgage agcy.
FHA
Pair of
TWO
Bill fig.
AMT
Unappreciative of St. Louis's hockey team?
SCORNINGTHEBLUES
Dearie
HON
Expressions of discovery
AHAS
Bi- quadrupled
OCTO
"Four Quartets" poet
ELIOT
↓ Down
Benjamins
CNOTES
Cinema icon born in Rome
LOREN
Site of Napoleon's exile
ELBA
Tallow kin
LARD
Guilty expression
IFEELBAD
Traction providers
BATHMATS
Hullabaloo
FUROR
Cornerstone abbr.
ESTD
Appealingly unconventional
ROGUISH
Place to keep toys?
KENNEL
"Lord, what fools __ mortals be!"
THESE
"Not exactly, but close"
INAWAY
"Developed With Dermatologists" lotion brand
CERAVE
Spring holiday
EASTER
Icicle spot
EAVE
Give out
EMIT
Nonsense word similar to "blah"
YADA
Jessica Mendoza's network
ESPN
Cloud's place
SKY
"That's __-brainer!"
ANO
Be next to
ABUT
Pompeii art form
MOSAIC
Experienced sort
OLDPRO
Locker contents
GEAR
Try to access, as the back of a closet
REACHIN
Borrowed
ONLOAN
Hebrew month after Shevat
ADAR
Curse
DAMN
"Enough!"
STOPTHAT
Rub shoulders (with)
HOBNOB
"I'm sorta disappointed"
SHUCKS
Kikkoman condiment
SOYSAUCE
Louvre Pyramid architect
PEI
Protected fig.
SSN
"Alternatively ... "
IFNOT
Causes to gasp, perhaps
AWES
Ration (out)
METE
General __ chicken
TSOS
Friend of TV's Mary Richards
RHODA
Brooks of country music
GARTH