LA Times Crossword October 18 2026 Answers (10/18/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's LA Times Crossword puzzle for October 18 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our LA Times Crossword October 18, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The LA Times Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle published in the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest newspapers in the United States. It is highly regarded by crossword enthusiasts for its challenging clues and clever themes. It is a traditional-style crossword, with a grid of black and white squares, and clues in both the across and down directions. The LA Times Crossword offers a daily challenge for solvers of all levels, from beginner to expert.

LA Times Crossword October 18, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the LA Times Crossword on 10/18/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Come & Get It! pet food brand
5A "Scrubs" role for Judy Reyes
10A Some language exams
15A Escalator part
19A Large Hadron Collider org.
20A Orca habitat
21A Upgrade, as machinery
22A Simplicity
23A Fizzled out
24A Versace parent company
25A "12-Point Type: A History"?
27A Prankster?
30A Fortune
31A Corporate VIPs
32A Dance club version, say
34A Like fabric in a quilting kit
38A Silver-white metal
41A Audition hopeful
43A Like a car made between 1919 and 1930
44A "You for Me" singer Rita
45A Cut-rate vacation rentals?
49A Issa of "Insecure"
50A Chutney fruit
52A D-backs st.
53A Chimp kin
54A Helsinki native
55A Perform terribly
56A Barbie's boo
57A IRS convenience
58A Pickles
59A Rowlands with an Honorary Academy Award
60A Poor grade
61A Played a pipe in a parade
62A Figure in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition
63A Decorative jugs
65A Teams
66A Home network need
67A "MasterChef" host Gordon
69A Bank investment?
70A Word with brow or blow
71A __ bean
74A Noisy, as a crowd
75A Driveway brick
76A With 16-Down, official cocktail of the city of Oakland
77A Shot in the arm, say
78A Eyelash treatment
79A Basic framework
80A Frames
81A Leftover
82A Playpen denizen
83A Motto of a therapist who uses origami to teach anger management?
86A Cake mix need
87A Traditional source of wood for baseball bats
89A On the periphery
90A "No __!"
92A Had a snack
93A Fillable flatbreads
95A H-Town ALer
96A Gain back
98A Morning-after-the-wedding stories?
104A Useful tool in making some Thanksgiving pies?
108A Vedder of Pearl Jam
109A Make mittens, perhaps
110A Winged archer
111A Primer mes del año
112A PowerPoint unit
113A Periphery
114A Well-worn trail
115A Showed again
116A Words to live by
117A Short message of gratitude
1D Adapter letters
2D "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" speaker
3D Slice and dice, perhaps
4D Coming right up
5D "Priscilla" writer/director Sofia
6D Ranch units
7D Raise
8D Some pub pals
9D "Devious Maids" star
10D Magic, on sports tickers
11D Form of energy healing
12D Tack on
13D "Not one word of this is true!"
14D Walking noisily
15D The continents, e.g.
16D See 76-Across
17D PC "oops" key
18D Split __ soup
26D Forest plants
28D Hoka rival
29D Highlighter hue
33D Automatic drip-brew pioneer
35D One with next-level skills in being thoughtful and compassionate?
36D Tanzania neighbor
37D Wee
38D Claim on some menus
39D Mighty mad
40D The dog days of summer?
41D Correspond
42D Adam's eldest
43D Ivy, for one
46D Tools with teeth
47D Zodiac ram
48D Un-locked?
51D Really bothers
54D Mozilla web browser
57D Down source
58D Figure, casually
60D Towel off
61D Fin
62D "I don't have all day!"
64D Tuner's asset
65D Cut
66D Damp
67D Lanai furniture material
68D Melodic passage
69D Strike zone?
70D Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick
72D Brink
73D Wise words
75D Leader of the Holy See
76D Attic pests
77D Strong urge
79D Big name in classic travel guides
80D Disorderly place
83D Primp
84D Island feast
85D Springsteen's __ Band
88D Clobber
91D "Guardians of the Galaxy" voice role for Bradley Cooper
93D Overly inquisitive sort
94D Prefix with structure
95D Slyly cutting
97D Hathaway of "The Odyssey"
99D Just chilling
100D All-father of Norse myth
101D Roddick who was the last American man to win the US Open
102D __ in a blanket
103D Half note feature
104D Energy
105D Cy Young stat
106D Basic bed
107D Long time

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