Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Thursday, December 18, 2025
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, December 18, 2025 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.0 letters. The longest answer is "tobeornottobe".
Total Clues
76
Longest
tobeornottobe
Avg Length
5.0
Shortest
ELF
ALLComplete Solution List
Keebler baker?
3ELF
Harvest
4CROP
From the beginning
6DENOVO
Alien-seeking org.
4SETI
Bind
3TIE
Prestige
6CACHET
Hotel bar
4SOAP
Oodles
6STACKS
QB mistake
3INT
Burrito option
5ASADA
Scattered
4SOWN
__ Quixote
3DON
Luau strings
4UKES
Silver State city
4RENO
Ish
4ORSO
Slip
3ERR
Works on the road
4TARS
Bambi, for one
4DEER
Tantrums
6SCENES
Comes clean about
8ADMITSTO
Sculpture medium
3ICE
Knight mares
6STEEDS
Afternoon trayful
6TEASET
Season opener
3ESS
"Pencils down!," for one?
10timberline
"Groundhog Day" writer/director Harold
5ramis
Brief read?
3mag
Soliloquy dilemma, and a phonetic hint to 17-, 25-, 51-, and 61-Across
13tobeornottobe
Bygone JFK carrier
3twa
More than half of the world's population
6asians
Lentil pancake
4dosa
Loonie currency, briefly
3cad
"What I did last summer" essay penned by a lifeguard?
9pooltable
Home of the Cubbies and the Bears
3chi
Ice cream truck jingle, e.g.?
9sugarcube
Fountain spot, perhaps
5plaza
"Black Widow" singer Rita
3ora
So-so ranges?
7octaves
Chocolate-covered bite
8raisinet
Knee pt.
3ACL
Class with pastels
3art
USN rank
3ENS
Fee for a reunion dinner?
10albumcover
Curriculum __
5VITAE
Staffer
4AIDE
Take the wrong way?
5STEAL
Martial art that began as sword exercises practiced by samurai
5kendo
Courtroom figs.
3DAS
Floor model
6roomba
Common PC inserts, once
3cds
Island near Majorca
5IBIZA
Spices up?
8ENLIVENS
Mary of The Maltese Falcon
5ASTOR
Sheepish remark?
3BAA
Tot's bruise
4OWIE
Sees eye to eye
6AGREES
Ersatz
6PSEUDO
In a way
7OFSORTS
Two of a kind
4PAIR
Little bit
4ATAD
Tee off
5START
Digital greeting
5ECARD
Oklahoma natives
4OTOE
Raises
6ERECTS
Still in need of tenants
5unlet
That's ___ brainer
3ANO
The Penguin's first name
6oswald
Animated film in which Renée Zellweger voices a florist named Vanessa Bloome
8beemovie
Bill with round numbers?
7opentab
Forum visitor who never posts
6lurker
Supercontinent of the late Paleozoic Era
6pangea
Checked garments
5coats
Honeybunny
3BAE
Contacted privately, briefly
4DMED
Capitalize on
3USE
B'way sign
3SRO
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