Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, December 17, 2025 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "homeimprovement".
Total Clues
76
Longest
homeimprovement
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
ASA
ALLComplete Solution List
___ sauce
6TARTAR
Quick __ wink
3ASA
Alas and ___
5ALACK
Shoe bottoms
5SOLES
Sushi seaweed
4NORI
Indigenous Canadians
4CREE
Escapade
4LARK
Fury
4RAGE
First Lady of Song Fitzgerald
4ELLA
Some Sharon Olds poems
4ODES
Chess greats, for short
3GMS
Skin soother
4ALOE
Director Lee
3ANG
Rio greeting
3OLA
Halloween mo.
3OCT
In the headlights animal
4DEER
Called
6TERMED
Con
4SCAM
Founded, as a co.
4ESTD
Part of an inheritance
4GENE
Brand of 5-Across
4izod
Residential upgrades
15homeimprovement
Comedy scene
6sketch
Golf tops
5polos
Pops
4dada
Breakfast bowl berry
4acai
"All over that"
4onit
"The Entertainer" genre
7ragtime
Many an American employee
15flightattendant
Fruit also known as guanabana
7soursop
"Good 4 U" singer Olivia
7rodrigo
Qatari commander
4emir
Red Bull slogan, and what can also be said of 17-, 25-, 28-, and 42-Across
15givesyouwiiings
Wellness space
3spa
Soul, in Spanish
4alma
Foul call, maybe
5prank
Source of financial aid
6patron
Driver of "Ferrari"
4adam
Muscle worked in dumbbell rows
3lat
Simchat bat, for one
4rite
HS diploma equivalent
3GED
Herbal refreshment
3tea
Diane of "Law & Order: SVU"
4NEAL
Scratched (out)
4EKED
Skyline obscurer
4HAZE
Absurd
4daft
March follower
5APRIL
Butter Restaurant chef/owner Guarnaschelli
4alex
List of pub grub
7barmenu
Contest that starts with a center-ice faceoff
7nhlgame
Roe, e.g.
3OVA
Pigs
5SWINE
Stumble or fumble
3ERR
Srsly?!
3OMG
Vegan brand owned by Estée Lauder
5AVEDA
Miso-soup mushroom
5ENOKI
Olive family shrub
5LILAC
Wander
4ROAM
Bearing
4MIEN
Price for hand delivery?
4ANTE
"Raging Bull" Oscar nominee
5pesci
Vanity pieces
5sinks
Fun function
4bash
Chewy brand
4alpo
Wanders about
4GADS
Coup d'__
4ETAT
Wall flowers, perhaps
5mural
Water boy?
7mariner
Device on a snowboarder's helmet, maybe
5gopro
Excavated
5dugup
Sound check
7earexam
Varieties
4ILKS
In conclusion
5andso
Blathers on
4yaps
Ibis kin
5egret
"Oh sure, take their __!"
4side
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