LA Times Crossword Answers for May 9 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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Angular
GAUNT
Feature of the logos of Heineken and Macys
REDSTAR
Headspring?
RINGLET
Pulitzer-winning play chronicled in the oral history The World Only Spins Forward
ANGELSINAMERICA
When one might find a blowout sale?
HAIRAPPOINTMENT
Garage occupant
CAR
Hello __: classic barbershop song
MARYLOU
Software vehicles once
CDS
Stillers partner
MEARA
Hit the runway
LAND
What she said
AMEN
As if
PFFT
Big name in comfort footwear
TAOS
Garments often adorned with metallic thread called zari
SARIS
Place that has rooms and a board
CONDO
Traps in a way
MIRES
Catalyst
IMPETUS
Rigs
FIXES
Call into question
BELIE
Fencing defense
PARRY
__ of nature
FORCE
Start to some health consultations?
TELE
Focuses of some museums
ERAS
Sole
LONE
2015 NL Rookie of the year Bryant
KRIS
Ya es suficiente
NOMAS
Like pitching machines and dinner guests
FED
Settings
LOCALES
Hosp. areas
ORS
Something taken by a teller?
DRAMATICLICENSE
Generational tendency to delay speaking on video recordings
MILLENNIALPAUSE
Prompted
SPURRED
↓ Down
Be honest with yourself
FACEIT
Pair o graphs?
AXES
Prohibits
BANS
Sagittarius for one
FIRESIGN
Super duper?
GOODLIAR
Zohran who walked the length of Manhattan on June 20 2025
MAMDANI
Gorge
CANYON
Holes novelist Louis
SACHAR
Trinidads Pitch Lake for one
TARPIT
Bitter rivalry
FEUD
Lingua __
FRANCA
__ sauce
TARTAR
Coverage issue
LAPSE
Subtle as colors
MUTED
King of Prussia attraction
MALL
Statement after putting down a card
ONME
On the __: chronically casually
REG
Title for some spouses
MRS
Short lines at the register?
UPCS
Source of a good self-image
MIRROR
Composition of most of the observable universe
PLASMA
West __: upscale furniture store
ELM
Some dabbling ducks
TEALS
__ itself
UNTO
Candy named for a Mars family horse
SNICKERS
Big name in loans
SALLIE
French dips?
PLIES
Finish line
IMDONE
Diet Pepsi singer Addison
RAE
Scram
RUNFORIT
Magazine whose first editorial director was Gordon Parks
ESSENCE
One of the Ramones
DEEDEE
Miranda Cosgrove sitcom
ICARLY
Popular tablet
ASPIRIN
Haha u wish
LOLNOPE
Chic accessory?
TRES