Wednesday · 74 clues

LA Times Crossword September 16, 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

Wednesday

Medium difficulty

Total clues

74

in today's grid

Across

35

horizontal answers

Down

39

vertical answers

Across clues

35 clues
Across · 13 letters

"Later, chumps!," or what can be said while putting 17-, 26-, and 43-Across to good use?

S
O
L
O
N
G
S
U
C
K
E
R
S
 Across · 4 letters

Actor James __ Jones

E
A
R
L
 Across · 6 letters

Add to an email

A
T
T
A
C
H
 Across · 4 letters

Battery unit

V
O
L
T
 Across · 6 letters

Bottled, as emotions

P
E
N
T
U
P
 Across · 5 letters

Cover story

A
L
I
B
I
 Across · 4 letters

Distort

S
K
E
W
 Across · 3 letters

Earth-friendly prefix

E
C
O
 Across · 3 letters

Female moose

C
O
W
 Across · 5 letters

Feminist Frequency founder Sarkeesian

A
N
I
T
A
 Across · 3 letters

German article

D
E
R
 Across · 3 letters

Granola bar fleck

O
A
T
 Across · 5 letters

Grinds to a halt

S
T
O
P
S
 Across · 4 letters

Groks

G
E
T
S
 Across · 4 letters

Hardly hard

S
O
F
T
 Across · 5 letters

Home of the College World Series

O
M
A
H
A
 Across · 4 letters

Image in a botanical print

L
E
A
F
 Across · 4 letters

Jessica of "Sin City"

A
L
B
A
 Across · 4 letters

Like muted colors

P
A
L
E
 Across · 9 letters

Liquid in a vampire slayer's vial

H
O
L
Y
W
A
T
E
R
 Across · 5 letters

Liquid-Plumr rival

D
R
A
N
O
 Across · 3 letters

Permit

L
E
T
 Across · 15 letters

Prohibition of some single-use products

P
L
A
S
T
I
C
S
T
R
A
W
B
A
N
 Across · 5 letters

Shoutout to a parent

H
I
M
O
M
 Across · 7 letters

Shuns

E
S
C
H
E
W
S
 Across · 13 letters

Spiral burners that deter biting pests

M
O
S
Q
U
I
T
O
C
O
I
L
S
 Across · 3 letters

Splash of color in an ornamental pond

K
O
I
 Across · 3 letters

Subject of a miner dispute, maybe

O
R
E
 Across · 4 letters

Tennis match units

S
E
T
S
 Across · 4 letters

Ties the knot

W
E
D
S
 Across · 5 letters

Ukrainian port on the Black Sea

O
D
E
S
A
 Across · 4 letters

Wagon rod

A
X
L
E
 Across · 5 letters

__ Domingo: Caribbean capital

S
A
N
T
O
 Across · 5 letters

__ New Year

L
U
N
A
R
 Across · 4 letters

__ out a living

E
K
E
D

Down clues

39 clues
Down · 4 letters

"I feel seen!"

S
A
M
E
 Down · 3 letters

"Ka-blammo!"

P
O
W
 Down · 7 letters

"Ready to get moving?"

S
H
A
L
L
W
E
 Down · 3 letters

"Well, well, well!"

O
H
O
 Down · 6 letters

Atomic centers

N
U
C
L
E
I
 Down · 6 letters

Bit of henna art

T
A
T
T
O
O
 Down · 3 letters

Boxer Muhammad

A
L
I
 Down · 6 letters

Broad neckties

A
S
C
O
T
S
 Down · 6 letters

Bug

I
N
S
E
C
T
 Down · 4 letters

Cardboard carton part

F
L
A
P
 Down · 4 letters

Chicago-style pizza chain, familiarly

U
N
O
S
 Down · 3 letters

Company with brown trucks

U
P
S
 Down · 6 letters

Cry from a crow's nest

L
A
N
D
H
O
 Down · 3 letters

Cry from a crow's nest

C
A
W
 Down · 3 letters

Demure

C
O
Y
 Down · 5 letters

Financial center in Honshu

O
S
A
K
A
 Down · 4 letters

Glaswegian, e.g.

S
C
O
T
 Down · 5 letters

Gourmet mushroom

M
O
R
E
L
 Down · 3 letters

Greek vowel

E
T
A
 Down · 3 letters

Hem and __

H
A
W
 Down · 5 letters

Insolvent

B
R
O
K
E
 Down · 3 letters

Large deer

E
L
K
 Down · 7 letters

Like a race winner

F
A
S
T
E
S
T
 Down · 9 letters

Like ghost towns

A
B
A
N
D
O
N
E
D
 Down · 7 letters

Mourns

G
R
I
E
V
E
S
 Down · 6 letters

Puget Sound city

T
A
C
O
M
A
 Down · 6 letters

Rotational force

T
O
R
Q
U
E
 Down · 3 letters

Scores equal to two FGs

T
D
S
 Down · 3 letters

Seer's gift

E
S
P
 Down · 4 letters

Spanish pronoun

E
L
L
A
 Down · 4 letters

Sudoku diagram

G
R
I
D
 Down · 3 letters

The "H" of HMS

H
I
S
 Down · 4 letters

Till stack

T
E
N
S
 Down · 7 letters

Took care of a situation

S
A
W
T
O
I
T
 Down · 4 letters

Track circuits

L
A
P
S
 Down · 3 letters

Train board abbr.

A
R
R
 Down · 4 letters

Trifling

M
E
R
E
 Down · 5 letters

Typically uninhabited key

I
S
L
E
T
 Down · 9 letters

U-shaped body formed by a river diversion

O
X
B
O
W
L
A
K
E

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The LA Times Crossword for Wednesday, September 16, 2026 contains 74 clues (35 Across, 39 Down). Based on the day of the week, this puzzle is rated Medium difficulty.

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