LA Times Crossword May 18 2025 Answers (5/18/25)

Our LA Times Crossword May 18, 2025 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 May 18, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the LA Times Crossword on 5/18/25, 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	Insurer with a fowl mascot
6A	LED screen alternative
11A	Fourth-yr. students
14A	Slice and dice, perhaps
18A	Stylish Geoffrey
19A	Chicago hub
20A	Aim
21A	Holiday lights spot
22A	Trumpet sounds
23A	Decor updates
24A	Old school
26A	One minding everyone's p's and q's?
29A	Most articles in The Onion
30A	Shaft on a unicycle
31A	Place of rapid development
35A	Short, made shorter
36A	One of 30 in septiembre
39A	Pub order
41A	Aerial footage provider
42A	Cruise ship physician?
46A	British school since 1440
47A	Bikini tops
49A	Biblical prophet
50A	Hit the deck again?
52A	Palais figure
53A	Luncheonette worker?
58A	"Magic 3" rapper
59A	Utterly destroyed
61A	__-Dame de Paris
62A	Happy cry
64A	Ancient pyramid builders
65A	Hair product that creates a wet look
68A	Formerly named
69A	Tiny listening device
72A	Beginning of time?
73A	Tri-tip, e.g.
75A	Balaclava
76A	Barnyard bleat
78A	Banker offering a penny for your thoughts?
83A	Doll once sold with mustache and sideburn decals
84A	Jack Ma's company
86A	Name on a rap sheet
87A	Inventor/actress Lamarr
88A	Most populous city in southwest Colombia
89A	Artisan who specializes in life-size replicas of bison?
95A	Asteroids named for a Roman god
97A	Covered in gold
98A	Subj. for some immigrants
99A	Browser address
100A	Passed in tedious fashion
102A	Upswing
104A	Finger painting?
108A	Character in "Driving Miss Piggy"?
113A	Idylls
116A	Accounts
117A	Info on a museum placard
118A	Seller of Storå loft beds
119A	High-chair feature
120A	Put on a pedestal
121A	Sea eagles
122A	NL East team with a "curly W" logo
123A	Rte. displays
124A	Charmingly silly
125A	Beloved ones
1D	Arafat's successor
2D	Guy
3D	Navigated furniture in a game of the floor is lava, say
4D	Digs for bugs?
5D	Viola's false identity in "Twelfth Night"
6D	Unlike a 6-Across, say
7D	Guitarist Atkins known as the "Country Gentleman"
8D	Root beer brand
9D	Pants, in slang
10D	Scooter whose name means "wasp" in Italian
11D	Out of debt
12D	Oscar winner Malek
13D	Punctuation in a 99-Across
14D	Orchard figure
15D	Rodent in some zodiacs
16D	Sistine Chapel figure
17D	"As __ my last email ... "
20D	Pasta sauce staple
25D	Subjunctive, e.g.
27D	Banjoist Fleck
28D	"Star Wars" Celebration, e.g.
32D	One working with flower and dough?
33D	Sherlock's sister
34D	Big dings
36D	Singer Celine
37D	Pt. of RIT
38D	Outfielder Tommie who was AL Rookie of the Year in 1966
40D	Rich layer cake
42D	Couturier for Tinker Bell?
43D	Therefore
44D	Mend with yarn
45D	Food writer Drummond
47D	Cup edge
48D	Novelist Jaffe
51D	Desert feature
53D	Washington venue?
54D	Add-__: extras
55D	Finished first
56D	Finished off
57D	Outrage
60D	Dubai's country, briefly
63D	Sleeve
65D	1960s muscle car
66D	Eternally, in verse
67D	"__ it on me"
69D	Squeeze (out)
70D	Took advantage of
71D	Big Apple fashion label
73D	Tolkien dragon
74D	Heat meas.
75D	Spanish "Yes, yes!"
76D	Bright parrot
77D	Site of an 1836 siege
79D	Tidal movement
80D	Sunscreen additive
81D	Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, e.g.
82D	Transport by semi
85D	Caps worn during conclave
87D	Inferno of the damned
90D	Leg bones
91D	Mopsy's sister
92D	Perched upon
93D	Affair with ti leaves
94D	Stared off into space
96D	London district near Oxford Circus
101D	"Dagnabbit"
103D	Portioned (out)
104D	"So gross!"
105D	MetLife competitor
106D	Tool that's made to measure
107D	Hair piece?
109D	K or Wal finale
110D	Cab
111D	Give a hand
112D	Lend a hand
113D	Brooch
114D	Letters before an 86-Across
115D	Good to go

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