LA Times Crossword Answers for May 16 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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Apple cultivar that dates to American colonial times
WINESAP
Lunar event
MOONSET
Cunning
SLYNESS
Mythical hunter transformed into a stag
ACTAEON
Shows some major respect?
SALUTES
Beyoncé challenge in the song "Energy"
EVERYBODYONMUTE
Yoga pose that alternates between arching and rounding the spine
CATCOW
Kodai Senga's signature pitch
FORKBALL
Berkeley, familiarly
CAL
Pyle player
NABORS
Barbaro's role in "A Complete Unknown"
BAEZ
Connection point
NODE
Sparked again
RELIT
Sch. in Athens
UGA
Oscilloscope display
WAVE
Euchre kin
ECARTE
Studies
GAZESAT
Winless racehorses
MAIDENS
"The Tale of __ Puddle-Duck"
JEMIMA
"Ooh, burn!"
ZING
The CW predecessor
UPN
Not discourteous
CIVIL
Sector
ZONE
"Milk" director Gus Van __
SANT
Relieve (of)
DIVEST
Winter hrs. for most of western Indiana
EST
Cocktail whose color comes from grenadine
PINKLADY
Patisserie treat
ECLAIR
Navel brass?
BELLYBUTTONRING
Went by yacht
CRUISED
Woodcutter in a tale told by Scheherazade
ALIBABA
Google Play download
APPGAME
↓ Down
Sweets
BABES
PR concern
IMAGE
Bolivian cultural center
LAPAZ
One sextillion memory units
ZETTABYTE
Speak unseriously
JIVE
Mid-party errand
DRINKRUN
Balls (up)
WADS
Macrocosm
WORLD
"We can manage without them"
NOLOSS
Superhero star of a Lego movie
BATMAN
Facial expressions, e.g.
VISUALCUES
Epic poem division
CANTO
Admit, with "up"
FESS
Like a kumquat
OVAL
Depend (on)
RELY
2025 French Open winner Gauff
COCO
__-Missouria Tribe
OTOE
Bounced
WENT
Vegetable related to lilies
YAM
Some brunch dates
GIRLTIME
Obi-Wan player
ALEC
Microgeneration of the 1990s
ZILLENNIAL
Marketing method
EBLAST
"Just tell me!"
SAYIT
Dict. tag
ABBR
__ cross
TAU
On the move
ACTIVE
Tending (to)
PRONE
Anticonformist subculture
PUNKSCENE
Kapler who was NL Manager of the Year in 2021
GABE
China setting
ASIA
Make better
MEND
Anxious
EDGY
Halloween prank
TPING
Puts on
DONS
Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates
SUMER
Quickly
APACE
Niche mag
ZINE