Saturday · 70 clues

LA Times Crossword May 16, 2026 answers

All Across and Down clues from today's LA Times Crossword, with verified answers.

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Puzzle stats

70 total clues

Day

Saturday

Hard difficulty

Total clues

70

in today's grid

Across

32

horizontal answers

Down

38

vertical answers

Across clues

32 clues
Across · 4 letters

"Milk" director Gus Van __

S
A
N
T
 Across · 4 letters

"Ooh, burn!"

Z
I
N
G
 Across · 6 letters

"The Tale of __ Puddle-Duck"

J
E
M
I
M
A
 Across · 7 letters

Apple cultivar that dates to American colonial times

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I
N
E
S
A
P
 Across · 4 letters

Barbaro's role in "A Complete Unknown"

B
A
E
Z
 Across · 3 letters

Berkeley, familiarly

C
A
L
 Across · 15 letters

Beyoncé challenge in the song "Energy"

E
V
E
R
Y
B
O
D
Y
O
N
M
U
T
E
 Across · 8 letters

Cocktail whose color comes from grenadine

P
I
N
K
L
A
D
Y
 Across · 4 letters

Connection point

N
O
D
E
 Across · 7 letters

Cunning

S
L
Y
N
E
S
S
 Across · 6 letters

Euchre kin

E
C
A
R
T
E
 Across · 7 letters

Google Play download

A
P
P
G
A
M
E
 Across · 8 letters

Kodai Senga's signature pitch

F
O
R
K
B
A
L
L
 Across · 7 letters

Lunar event

M
O
O
N
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E
T
 Across · 7 letters

Mythical hunter transformed into a stag

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C
T
A
E
O
N
 Across · 15 letters

Navel brass?

B
E
L
L
Y
B
U
T
T
O
N
R
I
N
G
 Across · 5 letters

Not discourteous

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I
V
I
L
 Across · 4 letters

Oscilloscope display

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A
V
E
 Across · 6 letters

Patisserie treat

E
C
L
A
I
R
 Across · 6 letters

Pyle player

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A
B
O
R
S
 Across · 6 letters

Relieve (of)

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I
V
E
S
T
 Across · 3 letters

Sch. in Athens

U
G
A
 Across · 4 letters

Sector

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O
N
E
 Across · 7 letters

Shows some major respect?

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A
L
U
T
E
S
 Across · 5 letters

Sparked again

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E
L
I
T
 Across · 7 letters

Studies

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A
Z
E
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A
T
 Across · 3 letters

The CW predecessor

U
P
N
 Across · 7 letters

Went by yacht

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R
U
I
S
E
D
 Across · 7 letters

Winless racehorses

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A
I
D
E
N
S
 Across · 3 letters

Winter hrs. for most of western Indiana

E
S
T
 Across · 7 letters

Woodcutter in a tale told by Scheherazade

A
L
I
B
A
B
A
 Across · 6 letters

Yoga pose that alternates between arching and rounding the spine

C
A
T
C
O
W

Down clues

38 clues
Down · 5 letters

"Just tell me!"

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A
Y
I
T
 Down · 6 letters

"We can manage without them"

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O
L
O
S
S
 Down · 4 letters

2025 French Open winner Gauff

C
O
C
O
 Down · 4 letters

Admit, with "up"

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E
S
S
 Down · 5 letters

Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates

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U
M
E
R
 Down · 9 letters

Anticonformist subculture

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U
N
K
S
C
E
N
E
 Down · 4 letters

Anxious

E
D
G
Y
 Down · 4 letters

Balls (up)

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A
D
S
 Down · 5 letters

Bolivian cultural center

L
A
P
A
Z
 Down · 4 letters

Bounced

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E
N
T
 Down · 4 letters

China setting

A
S
I
A
 Down · 4 letters

Depend (on)

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E
L
Y
 Down · 4 letters

Dict. tag

A
B
B
R
 Down · 5 letters

Epic poem division

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A
N
T
O
 Down · 10 letters

Facial expressions, e.g.

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U
A
L
C
U
E
S
 Down · 5 letters

Halloween prank

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P
I
N
G
 Down · 4 letters

Kapler who was NL Manager of the Year in 2021

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A
B
E
 Down · 4 letters

Like a kumquat

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V
A
L
 Down · 5 letters

Macrocosm

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O
R
L
D
 Down · 4 letters

Make better

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E
N
D
 Down · 6 letters

Marketing method

E
B
L
A
S
T
 Down · 10 letters

Microgeneration of the 1990s

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I
L
L
E
N
N
I
A
L
 Down · 8 letters

Mid-party errand

D
R
I
N
K
R
U
N
 Down · 4 letters

Niche mag

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I
N
E
 Down · 4 letters

Obi-Wan player

A
L
E
C
 Down · 6 letters

On the move

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C
T
I
V
E
 Down · 9 letters

One sextillion memory units

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E
T
T
A
B
Y
T
E
 Down · 5 letters

PR concern

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M
A
G
E
 Down · 4 letters

Puts on

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O
N
S
 Down · 5 letters

Quickly

A
P
A
C
E
 Down · 8 letters

Some brunch dates

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L
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M
E
 Down · 4 letters

Speak unseriously

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I
V
E
 Down · 6 letters

Superhero star of a Lego movie

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A
T
M
A
N
 Down · 5 letters

Sweets

B
A
B
E
S
 Down · 5 letters

Tending (to)

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R
O
N
E
 Down · 3 letters

Vegetable related to lilies

Y
A
M
 Down · 3 letters

__ cross

T
A
U
 Down · 4 letters

__-Missouria Tribe

O
T
O
E

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The LA Times Crossword for Saturday, May 16, 2026 contains 70 clues (32 Across, 38 Down). Based on the day of the week, this puzzle is rated Hard difficulty.

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