Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Thursday, January 29, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, January 29, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "untested".
Total Clues
78
Longest
untested
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
ARI
ALLComplete Solution List
Grape used for sweet wine
6muscat
Ornery sort
4CUSS
Nev. neighbor
3ARI
Colored ring
6AREOLA
Like many new recruits
8untested
Airport area
6TARMAC
Noble title
8countess
High-five, e.g.
4SLAP
HP supply
3INK
Airport serving Tokyo
6NARITA
Make changes to
6retool
Buttonlike flower
5TANSY
Silky material
5satin
Spoken
6VOICED
Novelist Lurie
6ALISON
The Mustangs of the NCAA
3SMU
Feel sorry about
3RUE
Tennis shutout
7LOVESET
Run away (with)
7ABSCOND
1980s Formula One driver __ Fabi
3teo
North Sea diving bird
3AUK
Fill with bubbles
6AERATE
Leaping rodent
6gerbil
Edsel, notably
5lemon
Follow, as a tip
5ACTON
Ties in knots
6snarls
Kin of ad hoc
6protem
Add color to
3DYE
Set of circumstances
4case
With 65-Across, request from some diners, or what a black square creates in rows 3, 6, 8, and 10 of this puzzle
8separate
See 63-Across
6checks
Perfect examples
8EPITOMES
Maintenance job
6tuneup
Champagne label word
3SEC
Transmitted
4SENT
Place for mail to accumulate
6intray
Floor cushions
4mats
Eurasia's __ Mountains
4URAL
Buona ___
4SERA
Be made up (of).
8comprise
Taking after
3ALA
Understood
5TACIT
Birds that make hourly appearances
7cuckoos
Card game with an edition for colorblind players
3UNO
Shock
4STUN
Legislative century
6SENATE
Had DiGiorno, perhaps
5atein
Takes five
5RESTS
Emphatic agreement
5idsay
Fine fiddle
5STRAD
Veteran's Day mo.
3NOV
Mireille of "Hanna"
4ENOS
Peruvian metropolis
4LIMA
Shaker fill
4SALT
__ vera
4ALOE
Early DVR
4TIVO
Birthplace of 2021 AL Rookie of the Year Randy Arozarena
4cuba
Closely related?
4NEAR
Cover a lot of ground?
4roam
King James preposition
4UNTO
Garden of delight
4EDEN
Ice cream containers
4TUBS
Don't ___ yourself short
4SELL
Roll
8crescent
Most charitable
7KINDEST
Insinuated
5GOTAT
Año openers
6eneros
Nonprofessional
3LAY
Semicircular recesses
5APSES
Pancake with frizzled edges
5crepe
Debate assignment
5topic
Prefix with linear
5RECTI
Broadway auntie
4MAME
Aspire laptop maker
4ACER
Predatory seabird
4SKUA
Catch sight of
4ESPY
Lost Tribes number
3ten
Nomadic invader
3HUN
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