Friday · 74 clues

LA Times Crossword May 22, 2026 answers

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

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Puzzle stats

74 total clues

Day

Friday

Hard difficulty

Total clues

74

in today's grid

Across

35

horizontal answers

Down

39

vertical answers

Across clues

35 clues
Across · 13 letters

"Move it!," or how to make this puzzle's starred clues match their answers

G
E
T
T
H
E
L
E
A
D
O
U
T
 Across · 4 letters

"__ come to me ... "

I
T
L
L
 Across · 10 letters

*Misleads in an alley

G
U
T
T
E
R
B
A
L
L
 Across · 10 letters

*Plea deal venues

B
E
L
L
T
O
W
E
R
S
 Across · 10 letters

*Storied Gilead locale

O
M
A
H
A
B
E
A
C
H
 Across · 10 letters

*Wordle ad collection

D
I
C
T
I
O
N
A
R
Y
 Across · 6 letters

Blister

S
C
A
T
H
E
 Across · 6 letters

Carry too far

O
V
E
R
D
O
 Across · 4 letters

Fog

M
I
S
T
 Across · 3 letters

Fresh

R
A
W
 Across · 4 letters

Give and take

S
W
A
P
 Across · 7 letters

Has a strong influence on

I
M
P
A
C
T
S
 Across · 3 letters

Hospital figs.

R
N
S
 Across · 4 letters

Icy response?

B
R
R
R
 Across · 6 letters

Kicked off

O
P
E
N
E
D
 Across · 4 letters

Mother of Beyoncé and Solange

T
I
N
A
 Across · 3 letters

Night of revelry, initially

N
Y
E
 Across · 3 letters

Northern limits?

E
N
S
 Across · 4 letters

Of two minds

T
O
R
N
 Across · 4 letters

Only

L
O
N
E
 Across · 4 letters

Pop artist Warhol

A
N
D
Y
 Across · 4 letters

Posting on the side of a food truck

M
E
N
U
 Across · 7 letters

Reaction creators

S
T
I
M
U
L
I
 Across · 4 letters

Sashimi's lack

R
I
C
E
 Across · 4 letters

Some drones

B
E
E
S
 Across · 6 letters

Speed up

H
A
S
T
E
N
 Across · 5 letters

Sub-par performance?

E
A
G
L
E
 Across · 5 letters

Summer music?

D
I
S
C
O
 Across · 3 letters

Tango number

T
W
O
 Across · 6 letters

The __ Brothers: blue-eyed soul band

D
O
O
B
I
E
 Across · 4 letters

Tsukiji market buy, perhaps

T
U
N
A
 Across · 5 letters

Walking aids

C
A
N
E
S
 Across · 6 letters

William Sydney Porter's pen name

O
H
E
N
R
Y
 Across · 3 letters

Work of fiction

L
I
E
 Across · 5 letters

__-Latin: medieval language

A
N
G
L
O

Down clues

39 clues
Down · 6 letters

"A Man on the Inside" actor Ted

D
A
N
S
O
N
 Down · 4 letters

Auburn rival, to fans

B
A
M
A
 Down · 3 letters

Big bang letters

T
N
T
 Down · 6 letters

Bridle suite?

S
T
A
B
L
E
 Down · 4 letters

Brief "Then again ... "

O
T
O
H
 Down · 5 letters

CVS Health subsidiary

A
E
T
N
A
 Down · 4 letters

Chambers of commerce?

M
A
L
L
 Down · 3 letters

Charlemagne's domain, briefly

H
R
E
 Down · 8 letters

City slicker

U
R
B
A
N
I
T
E
 Down · 4 letters

Community pool org.

Y
M
C
A
 Down · 3 letters

Cough up

P
A
Y
 Down · 8 letters

Director's cut?

A
N
D
S
C
E
N
E
 Down · 7 letters

Does a cobbler's job

R
E
H
E
E
L
S
 Down · 3 letters

Draw

T
I
E
 Down · 8 letters

Early wheels

T
R
I
C
Y
C
L
E
 Down · 3 letters

Entertainment medium, for short

P
O
D
 Down · 5 letters

Fabric named for a French city

D
E
N
I
M
 Down · 7 letters

Fame

S
T
A
R
D
O
M
 Down · 6 letters

Financial nabe in NYC

W
A
L
L
S
T
 Down · 3 letters

Ft. Worth school

T
C
U
 Down · 5 letters

Goes up

R
I
S
E
S
 Down · 4 letters

Governess who breaks the fourth wall

E
Y
R
E
 Down · 4 letters

Hardware with flanges

T
N
U
T
 Down · 4 letters

Heavenly sign

H
A
L
O
 Down · 3 letters

Honor bestowed by HM King Charles III

O
B
E
 Down · 6 letters

Listen

T
U
N
E
I
N
 Down · 6 letters

Little hooters

O
W
L
E
T
S
 Down · 8 letters

Manitoba's capital

W
I
N
N
I
P
E
G
 Down · 3 letters

Montgomery of jazz

W
E
S
 Down · 5 letters

Old-fashioned farm apparatus

C
H
U
R
N
 Down · 6 letters

Rave review

S
O
G
O
O
D
 Down · 3 letters

Reproductive cells

O
V
A
 Down · 6 letters

Spanish English

I
N
G
L
E
S
 Down · 6 letters

Star-crossed

T
R
A
G
I
C
 Down · 3 letters

Tahiti, par exemple

I
L
E
 Down · 5 letters

Teeming crowd

H
O
R
D
E
 Down · 3 letters

Umbrella spoke

R
I
B
 Down · 4 letters

Wind instrument featured in R.E.M.'s "Nightswimming"

O
B
O
E
 Down · 5 letters

With it

A
L
E
R
T

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The LA Times Crossword for Friday, May 22, 2026 contains 74 clues (35 Across, 39 Down). Based on the day of the week, this puzzle is rated Hard difficulty.

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