Sunday · 144 clues

LA Times Crossword October 4, 2026 answers

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

Puzzle stats

144 total clues

Day

Sunday

Themed (large grid) difficulty

Total clues

144

in today's grid

Across

67

horizontal answers

Down

77

vertical answers

Across clues

67 clues
Across · 4 letters

"Hey, c'mere!"

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T
Across · 4 letters

"This instant!"

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A
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Across · 12 letters

*Blueprints for a new wardrobe?

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L
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Across · 12 letters

*Devoted followers of painter O'Keeffe?

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Across · 12 letters

*Dropping hints about the release of a director's cut, perhaps?

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Across · 16 letters

*Like a sawmill without disposal facilities?

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N
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Across · 16 letters

*Motto of a calligraphy enthusiast?

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V
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P
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Across · 9 letters

*Timepiece worn by a "Star Wars" pilot?

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H
Across · 12 letters

*Transgressions included in textbooks?

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Across · 4 letters

28-Across flow

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Across · 6 letters

46-Down deliverer

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Across · 3 letters

Accessory for a fish tank

N
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Across · 3 letters

Actress Arthur

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Across · 6 letters

Alfa __: sports cars

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Across · 3 letters

Assn.

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Across · 6 letters

Backspace over

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Across · 5 letters

Beauty entrepreneur Elizabeth

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N
Across · 5 letters

Birds similar to crows

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K
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Across · 3 letters

Brand of kitchen gadgets

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X
O
Across · 3 letters

Canonized Mlle.

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T
E
Across · 4 letters

Captain with an ivory leg

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H
A
B
Across · 6 letters

Cause of a quick blessing

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E
Across · 3 letters

Chemical suffix

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N
E
Across · 6 letters

College official

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Across · 4 letters

Concludes

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Across · 6 letters

Country that borders 14 other countries

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A
Across · 8 letters

Dessert that may have a lattice crust

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Across · 5 letters

Frisbee maker

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M
O
Across · 3 letters

Hard water?

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Across · 3 letters

Hill worker?

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T
Across · 3 letters

In the style of

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L
A
Across · 4 letters

Indoor rowers

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S
Across · 3 letters

Inexact no.

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T
Across · 8 letters

Invisible ink?

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O
Across · 5 letters

Jaguar's roar

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M
Across · 4 letters

Jekyll's counterpart

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Y
D
E
Across · 5 letters

Like a haunted house

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C
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R
Y
Across · 4 letters

Like much music of the 1990s

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N
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D
Across · 5 letters

Like samosas and wontons

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E
D
Across · 8 letters

Locale for clam diggers

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Across · 3 letters

Mono- kin

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Across · 6 letters

Most twisted

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Across · 8 letters

Nonconformist

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Across · 6 letters

Off the mark

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Y
Across · 3 letters

Part of LGBTQ+

G
A
Y
Across · 5 letters

Patronage

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Across · 4 letters

Piece in Azul or mahjong

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E
Across · 4 letters

Resort near Snowbird

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A
Across · 4 letters

Rotary phone part

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Across · 4 letters

Scratchy sound

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Across · 6 letters

Second chance for a student

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Across · 4 letters

Sicilian peak

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A
Across · 4 letters

Small ensemble

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Across · 4 letters

Spanish "nothing"

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Across · 5 letters

Spanish boys

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Across · 6 letters

Sudden bursts

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O
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Across · 4 letters

Sunrise locale

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Across · 5 letters

Take the wheel

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Across · 8 letters

Trial version of a puzzle app, e.g.

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Across · 4 letters

Turning point?

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B
Across · 5 letters

User without an account

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Across · 4 letters

Vein contents

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Across · 3 letters

Versailles monarch

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Across · 4 letters

Video file format

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G
Across · 4 letters

Walking pace

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T
Across · 8 letters

Weapon in Clue

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Across · 3 letters

__-pitch softball

S
L
O

Down clues

77 clues
Down · 9 letters

"I need a ride home"

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M
E
Down · 3 letters

"I'll be!"

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N
Down · 5 letters

"I'll be!"

O
H
G
E
E
Down · 4 letters

"It's Too Late" singer Carole

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G
Down · 4 letters

"Mi __ es su ... "

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Down · 3 letters

"R u kidding!?"

O
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G
Down · 8 letters

"Stop right there"

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N
Down · 4 letters

"The Real" co-host Love

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Down · 5 letters

"The Weir" playwright McPherson

C
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R
Down · 3 letters

"__ we meet again"

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L
Down · 3 letters

AED-trained pro

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M
T
Down · 4 letters

Approximately

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S
O
Down · 4 letters

Bank deposit?

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T
Down · 5 letters

Capital city that's home to Turtle Tower

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I
Down · 6 letters

Catch in a snare

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P
Down · 3 letters

Chop (off)

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O
P
Down · 7 letters

Christmas and Easter

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D
S
Down · 5 letters

Classmate of Beavis

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A
Down · 3 letters

Concealer target

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Down · 6 letters

Criticize harshly

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Down · 6 letters

Deft

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Down · 5 letters

Embellish

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N
Down · 4 letters

Exam for HS jrs.

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Down · 4 letters

Fantasy monster

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R
E
Down · 8 letters

Flower on Mississippi's state quarter

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A
Down · 4 letters

GQ and Cosmo

M
A
G
S
Down · 7 letters

Genre for Talking Heads

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V
E
Down · 3 letters

Get in a pool

B
E
T
Down · 3 letters

Govt. intel org.

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A
Down · 3 letters

Hesitant around strangers

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H
Y
Down · 5 letters

Hip-hop pioneer from Compton

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R
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E
Down · 5 letters

Hits the brakes

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T
S
Down · 4 letters

In real time

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E
Down · 6 letters

In short supply

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E
Down · 5 letters

Just terrible

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U
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Down · 4 letters

Like many horror films

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O
R
Y
Down · 4 letters

Like sprinters

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S
T
Down · 5 letters

Like swifts, but not Swifties

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V
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A
N
Down · 4 letters

Little ones

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O
T
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Down · 6 letters

Lover of Aphrodite

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O
N
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Down · 9 letters

Marian Anderson, for one

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A
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Down · 5 letters

Matters of opinion?

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L
S
Down · 3 letters

Moo __ shrimp

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H
U
Down · 5 letters

Naive ones

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A
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Down · 4 letters

North Atlantic hazard

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R
G
Down · 5 letters

Playground retort

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R
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S
O
Down · 5 letters

Prim and proper

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Down · 6 letters

Public address

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C
H
Down · 8 letters

Put on a pedestal

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E
Down · 5 letters

Reach consensus

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G
R
E
E
Down · 6 letters

Relay

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S
O
N
Down · 4 letters

Repeated word in a Doris Day classic

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R
A
Down · 3 letters

Reuben bread

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Y
E
Down · 5 letters

River past Arles

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O
N
E
Down · 4 letters

Root veggie

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P
U
D
Down · 5 letters

Saw things?

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T
H
Down · 4 letters

Scenographer's designs

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T
S
Down · 7 letters

Series of setbacks, in slang

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P
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R
A
Down · 3 letters

Shaving brand

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I
C
Down · 4 letters

Social media labels

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G
S
Down · 5 letters

Subsequently

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E
R
Down · 5 letters

Sundae topping

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D
G
E
Down · 5 letters

Supermodel Shayk

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N
A
Down · 3 letters

Support for a driver

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E
E
Down · 5 letters

Sushi bar bottles

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A
K
E
S
Down · 4 letters

Swarm (with)

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E
E
M
Down · 5 letters

Symbols in Egyptian iconography

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N
K
H
S
Down · 6 letters

Take turns

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O
T
A
T
E
Down · 4 letters

Those, in Tijuana

E
S
O
S
Down · 8 letters

Travel permit

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X
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T
V
I
S
A
Down · 3 letters

Trivial complaint

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I
T
Down · 4 letters

Very bright

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E
O
N
Down · 3 letters

Works in a gallery

A
R
T
Down · 6 letters

Wyoming range, or when read as three parts, how the answers to the starred clues were formed?

T
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T
O
N
S
Down · 6 letters

Zero chance

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O
H
O
P
E
Down · 5 letters

__-face: smooching

K
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S
S
Y
Down · 3 letters

__/ace: LGBTQ+ orientation

A
R
O

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The LA Times Crossword for Sunday, October 4, 2026 contains 144 clues (67 Across, 77 Down). Based on the day of the week, this puzzle is rated Themed (large grid) difficulty.

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