LA Times Crossword August 30, 2026 answers
All Across and Down clues from today's LA Times Crossword, with verified answers.
Puzzle stats
Day
Sunday
Total clues
144
Across
69
Down
75
Across clues
"Buck-a-shuck" delicacy
"Sesame Street" basics
"This Is Us" director Ken
"Tropic Thunder" actor Nick
Actor Sheridan
Actor Simu
Baton Rouge sch.
Big spender?
Blissful spots
Blue-roofed breakfast chain
Blueprint deet
Bonus for never giving up?
Canary feed
Cause for a blessing
Coachella aesthetic
Device that might buzz during a night out?
Dining hall offerings
Disc golf obstacle
Draw of a dim sum cart
Elaborately embroidered falsehoods?
Fit to eat, to Muslims
Fizzled out
Flight board stats
Fuse together
Fusses over, with "on"
Gave the once-over
Give conditionally
Gooey lump
Great balls of fire
Green light for a lunar expedition?
Hip-hop's Salt-N-__
Home of the Nazca Lines
Ibiza, por ejemplo
Just slightly
Key below ~
Kitchen cover-ups
Legal addendum?
Like draft beer
Loads and loads
Mean
Mollusk often pan-seared
Mushroom with a pitted cap
Nonglossy lipstick option
Nursery arrival
Part of a play
People who pack picnic lunches?
Quick meeting?
Recliner part
Singer India.__
Slushy treat
Sock end
Some contract negotiators
Space balls?
Spearheaded
Spoiled
Starbucks size
Swahili for "lion"
Symbol of resistance
Think piece?
Tick away
Totally stoked
Trade show
UFO engineers
Vibe
Virtual persona
Washington Spirit player Morgan
Win the heart of
Zipper alternative
__ acid
Down clues
"Away from work" letters
"That's the guy!"
"You got that right!"
Anxiety-reducing feature of some tests
Bear in a bamboo forest
Bit of moisture
Casting need
Casting need
Clearasil rival
Color similar to salmon
Come up short
Corundum, for one
Covers a lot of ground?
Curved
D.C. ballplayers
Deep carpet
Double-check, in a way
Dress shape
Electric violin hookup
Enter via cracks
Folk instrument
Garment once called a corselet-gorge
Gathering for chile lovers?
Girl who lost her sheep
Gotham City hero
Gracefully refined
Great Plains people
Hackathon participant
Help in a burglary
Hockey great Bobby
Hog with tusks
Intellectual stickler
Lauder of cosmetics
Lends a hand
Light as can be
Like a bad breakup
Lowest sudoku number
Lyft alternative
Mil. mind game
Minecraft block
Molar cover
Morally pure
Nintendo virtual personae
Noisy migratory birds
Nokcha or sencha
None of the above
Offline, online
Optical effects caused by ice crystals
Orange sushi topping
Org.
Pascal of "The Last of Us"
Power source for a warp drive in "Star Trek"
Pranked with Charmin
Promotional sample
Pulpy refuse
Sculling tool
Secular
Settle elsewhere, casually
Sir __ Guinness
Smiles brightly
Soon-to-be alums
Special occasion
Special offers at a body shop?
Square up
Strike down, biblically
Take for a spin, perhaps
Tater
Tells all
Trousers
Vegan milk option
Wade clumsily
Yawn-inducing
Zigs or zags
[Not my error]
__ fade: haircut with shaved sides
About this puzzle
The LA Times Crossword for Sunday, August 30, 2026 contains 144 clues (69 Across, 75 Down). Based on the day of the week, this puzzle is rated Themed (large grid) difficulty.