Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Monday, December 8, 2025
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Monday, December 8, 2025 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "caseworker".
Total Clues
78
Longest
caseworker
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
LUC
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Capture digitally
4SCAN
Schindler of "Schindler's List"
5OSKAR
Having the resources
4ABLE
Perfectly clear
5LUCID
Book before Amos
4JOEL
Stops on the road
4INNS
In the slightest
5ATALL
Modest skirt
4MAXI
Tedious talker
4BORE
Enterprise captain Jean-___ Picard
3LUC
Lovers' god
4EROS
Unoriginal reply?
4ECHO
__-pitch softball
3SLO
Mex. neighbor
3USA
Lucy of "Elementary"
3LIU
Diary
4DEAR
Actress Mila
5KUNIS
Encore!
4MORE
Basketball Hall of Famer Steve
4NASH
Sporty trucks, briefly
4UTES
Sprinter's asset
5SPEED
Nimble-fingered
4DEFT
Requires
5NEEDS
Enthusiastic about
4INTO
Reach
6ATTAIN
Neutralize
9CANCELOUT
__ note: dictionary explanation
5usage
Muppet with a sister named Daisy
4elmo
"Click here" text
4link
Stay hidden
6HOLEUP
"Beat Bobby Flay" contestant
4chef
Website with a Collectibles category
4ebay
Face With Steam From Nose, for one
5emoji
You guessed it!
3yes
Trip to buy brewskis, or a sequence found in the starts of the answers to the starred clues
7beerrun
Invent lines
5adlib
*Advocate from a social agency
10caseworker
Retired record holders?
5ipods
One-__ pushup
3arm
*Result of serious core training
10sixpackabs
20 Mule Team laundry product
5borax
Acknowledgment of a screwup
7igoofed
Lymph ___ (immune system part)
4NODE
Eat as a treat
7snackon
Unpleasantly bitter
5ACRID
Crumbly Mexican cheese
6COTIJA
Vein counterpart
6ARTERY
Hooded serpent
5COBRA
*Pilot's aerobatic maneuver
10barrelroll
*Metaphorical container similar to Pandora's box
10canofworms
Done in, as a dragon
5SLAIN
Trace of smoke
4WISP
___ Chameleon (Culture Club hit)
5KARMA
Hooting hunter
3OWL
Early invader of Britain.
5SAXON
Museo del Prado display
4ARTE
___ du lieber!
3ACH
Kidding!
3NOT
Mined resource
3ORE
Human rights org.
4ACLU
Saddle attachment
7STIRRUP
French money
4EURO
Looks closely (at)
5PEERS
Plug-and-play port
3usb
Activision rival
5atari
Trio on a triceratops
5horns
"Everybody will tell you the same!"
9askanyone
Uber driver's invitation
5hopin
Tall monument that comes to a point
7obelisk
Derek whose No. 2 was retired by the Yankees
5jeter
Grand Lodge group
4ELKS
Humped oasis visitor
5camel
Screwup
5ERROR
Trippy drug
3LSD
Frito pie ingredient
5CHILI
Prevarication
3LIE
Spot for bulbs
3bed
Taproom pour
3ale
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