Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Monday, January 26, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Monday, January 26, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "midnightspecial".
Total Clues
78
Longest
midnightspecial
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
DON
ALLComplete Solution List
Put on
3DON
More crafty
5SLIER
Red emblem on the English flag
5cross
Org. concerned with "forever chemicals"
3EPA
Trattoria course
5PASTA
Flood barrier
5LEVEE
*Lead Belly song about a wee-hours train
15midnightspecial
Blooming __: deep-fried appetizer
5onion
Large atlas section
4ASIA
Broadband letters
3DSL
Pico de gallo pepper
7SERRANO
Advance, as cash
4LEND
*Armless furniture that sits low to the ground
12slipperchair
In this spot
4HERE
Prefix with classical
3NEO
Extreme
5ULTRA
GI show gp.
3USO
*Play area with plastic spheres
7ballpit
"Ugh, sounds painful!"
3oof
New Zealand native
5MAORI
Forever and a day
3EON
Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, for short
4tmnt
*Flavor of many fall lattes
12pumpkinspice
___ Millions lottery
4MEGA
Lose one's footing
7STUMBLE
One of the Manning brothers
3ELI
A handful of
4SOME
Bit of mint
5SPRIG
Underdog's feel-good narrative, and where to find the first words of the answers to the starred clues
15cinderellastory
Mombasa's country
5KENYA
JPEG, e.g.
5IMAGE
Dispenser at a bar
3TAP
Beginning stage
5ONSET
Took to the impound lot
5towed
Pres. before DDE
3hst
Tech expo presentations
5demos
Share a view
5OPINE
Lowest point
5NADIR
Backbone-related
6SPINAL
Delay in a livestream
3LAG
Kinda
3ISH
Gospel great James
4etta
Grapple, slangily
6rassle
Neat and well-groomed
8cleancut
Parks and __
3REC
Poet of ancient Rome
4OVID
Bodies of water
4SEAS
Exchange for cash
4SELL
Like myths about Asgard
5NORSE
Walkway over water
4PIER
Girl, in Guatemala
4NINA
Autobahn auto
4OPEL
FedEx alternative
3DHL
Fish sticks?
5POLES
Basic particle
4ATOM
Mineral in leafy greens
4iron
River float
4RAFT
Camel feature
4HUMP
Biblical twin
4ESAU
Suite part
4room
Pedaler's perch
8bikeseat
Opens, as a trunk
4pops
Still a competitor
4INIT
LP fig.
3rpm
Tantalize
5TEMPT
Classical composer Stravinsky
4igor
Anything you want!
6NAMEIT
Was a potty mouth
6cussed
Soup liquid
5BROTH
Turkish coins
5LIRAS
Red Sea nation
5egypt
Fashion designer Marc
4ECKO
Bank's property claim
4LIEN
Cozy lodgings
4INNS
Red friend of Grover
4elmo
Henna, for one
3DYE
Statute
3LAW
Get on in years
3AGE
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