LA Times Crossword Answers for May 5 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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Oral health org.
ADA
Camera letters
SLR
FasTrak payment
TOLL
Pound fraction
OUNCE
Scullers pair
OARS
Simple bookmark
DOGEAR
With 59-Across rhetorical taunt or a question answered by the ends of 17- 23- and 37-Across
HOWDOYOULIKE
Statutes that protect inventions and works of art for short
IPLAW
Iridescent gem
OPAL
Advantages for dealmakers
BARGAININGCHIPS
__ the change
KEEP
See 48-Across
THEMAPPLES
QED center
ERAT
Londons Big __
BEN
Fidelity Bravery Integrity org.
THEFBI
Fathers
DADS
Do some sums
ADD
U.S. citizens living abroad
EXPATS
Destroy
RUIN
Naughty
BAD
Jazz singing style
SCAT
Plenty
ENOUGH
Fall Out Boy genre
EMO
Foot part
ARCH
Total hunk
STUDMUFFIN
Greek cheese
FETA
Weigh station unit
TON
Hip-hop trio that covered Aerosmiths Walk This Way
RUNDMC
Storm-tracking aid
RADAR
Overdo and then some in the oven
BURNTOACRISP
The Irishman star Robert
DENIRO
Walking pace
GAIT
Chris of Knives Out
EVANS
Nothing to write home about
SOSO
Sch. whose colors are purple and gold
LSU
↓ Down
Walked in the woods say
HIKED
Vinaigrette ingredient
OIL
Weekly sketch show briefly
SNL
Adopt dont shop org.
SPCA
__-friendly
USER
The __-bitsy spider ...
ITSY
Diner employee
COOK
Massive
HUGE
Learns to fit in
ADAPTS
Use 44-Across
ROW
Enlarge as a pupil
DILATE
__-cone: icy treat
SNO
Puccini work
OPERA
__ and aahed
OOHED
Flip over
UPEND
On the __: fleeing
LAM
Letter before Bravo
ALFA
Financial liability
DEBT
Yard sale tag warning
ASIS
More details soon letters
TBA
The Suns on scoreboards
PHX
Get-up-and-go
PEP
Stand in for
ACTAS
And I say __ you ...
UNTO
Subject of a sentence typically
NOUN
Total bust
DUD
__ Grand Las Vegas
MGM
Fried cinnamon-sugar pastry
CHURRO
Are appropriate for
BEFIT
__ acids
AMINO
Mattingly who was the Yankees starting first baseman for 12 seasons
DON
Excursion in the Serengeti
SAFARI
Borrowers limit
CREDITLINE
Take a breather
REST
Movin Out choreographer Twyla
THARP
Lots of laughs
FUN
Color TV pioneer
RCA
Microsoft search engine
BING
Latin for bear
URSA
Eagerly excited
AGOG
New socialites familiarly
DEBS
Test: Abbr.
EVAL
One-point advantage say
NARROWLEAD