LA Times Crossword October 18, 2026 answers
All Across and Down clues from today's LA Times Crossword, with verified answers.
Puzzle stats
Day
Sunday
Total clues
144
Across
71
Down
73
Across clues
"12-Point Type: A History"?
"MasterChef" host Gordon
"No __!"
"Scrubs" role for Judy Reyes
"You for Me" singer Rita
Audition hopeful
Bank investment?
Barbie's boo
Basic framework
Cake mix need
Chimp kin
Chutney fruit
Come & Get It! pet food brand
Corporate VIPs
Cut-rate vacation rentals?
D-backs st.
Dance club version, say
Decorative jugs
Driveway brick
Escalator part
Eyelash treatment
Figure in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition
Fillable flatbreads
Fizzled out
Fortune
Frames
Gain back
H-Town ALer
Had a snack
Helsinki native
Home network need
IRS convenience
Issa of "Insecure"
Large Hadron Collider org.
Leftover
Like a car made between 1919 and 1930
Like fabric in a quilting kit
Make mittens, perhaps
Morning-after-the-wedding stories?
Motto of a therapist who uses origami to teach anger management?
Noisy, as a crowd
On the periphery
Orca habitat
Perform terribly
Periphery
Pickles
Played a pipe in a parade
Playpen denizen
Poor grade
PowerPoint unit
Prankster?
Primer mes del año
Rowlands with an Honorary Academy Award
Short message of gratitude
Shot in the arm, say
Showed again
Silver-white metal
Simplicity
Some language exams
Teams
Traditional source of wood for baseball bats
Upgrade, as machinery
Useful tool in making some Thanksgiving pies?
Vedder of Pearl Jam
Versace parent company
Well-worn trail
Winged archer
With 16-Down, official cocktail of the city of Oakland
Word with brow or blow
Words to live by
__ bean
Down clues
"Devious Maids" star
"Guardians of the Galaxy" voice role for Bradley Cooper
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" speaker
"I don't have all day!"
"Not one word of this is true!"
"Priscilla" writer/director Sofia
Adam's eldest
Adapter letters
All-father of Norse myth
Attic pests
Automatic drip-brew pioneer
Basic bed
Big name in classic travel guides
Brink
Claim on some menus
Clobber
Coming right up
Correspond
Cut
Cy Young stat
Damp
Disorderly place
Down source
Energy
Figure, casually
Fin
Forest plants
Form of energy healing
Half note feature
Hathaway of "The Odyssey"
Highlighter hue
Hoka rival
Island feast
Ivy, for one
Just chilling
Lanai furniture material
Leader of the Holy See
Long time
Magic, on sports tickers
Melodic passage
Mighty mad
Mozilla web browser
One with next-level skills in being thoughtful and compassionate?
Overly inquisitive sort
PC "oops" key
Prefix with structure
Primp
Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick
Raise
Ranch units
Really bothers
Roddick who was the last American man to win the US Open
See 76-Across
Slice and dice, perhaps
Slyly cutting
Some pub pals
Split __ soup
Springsteen's __ Band
Strike zone?
Strong urge
Tack on
Tanzania neighbor
The continents, e.g.
The dog days of summer?
Tools with teeth
Towel off
Tuner's asset
Un-locked?
Walking noisily
Wee
Wise words
Zodiac ram
__ in a blanket
About this puzzle
The LA Times Crossword for Sunday, October 18, 2026 contains 144 clues (71 Across, 73 Down). Based on the day of the week, this puzzle is rated Themed (large grid) difficulty.