Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Monday, May 11, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Monday, May 11, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "skinnyjeans".
Total Clues
78
Longest
skinnyjeans
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
wig
ALLComplete Solution List
Body art, slangily
4TATS
Turn into baby food
4mash
"I am half __, half hope": "Persuasion"
5agony
La __ tar pits
4BREA
Comic-Con, e.g.
4EXPO
Engaged for a job
5hired
Very inexpensive
9DIRTCHEAP
South American mountain range
5ANDES
Neck of the woods
4AREA
Drag show accessory
3wig
HS diploma equivalent
3GED
Subway smooch, e.g.: Abbr.
3pda
Pants one may have to wriggle into
11skinnyjeans
Stirred up
7INCITED
Red wine grape
6MERLOT
Many a TikToker
4TEEN
Orange tubers
4YAMS
___ Delicious
5TASTY
Kitchen cloth
9DISHTOWEL
Great Lakes mnemonic
5HOMES
Hippocratic __
4OATH
Jittery
4EDGY
Very tops
6APEXES
Like elastic material
7tensile
Traditional Chinese wedding ritual
11teaceremony
Industrial tub
3VAT
Secrecy contract, for short
3NDA
Pie ___ mode
3ALA
Skedaddled
4FLED
Selling point
5STORE
Trendy jargon, or what can be found at the starts of 17-, 25-, 38-, and 53-Across
9buzzwords
Cowpoke's hello
5howdy
__-Day vitamins
4ONEA
Out on the water
4ASEA
'Siddhartha' novelist Hermann
5HESSE
Designer Vera known for bridal gowns
4wang
Refuse to allow
4deny
Brief "More info soon"
3tbd
Daughter of King Minos who helped Theseus escape the labyrinth
7ariadne
Feature of many a rice paddy
7terrace
Fill up
4SATE
Verbal shrug
3MEH
Log chopper
3AXE
Offspring
5SPAWN
Pickup line?
5HOPIN
I've got it!
3AHA
Sodas in Shirley Temples
10gingerales
Major trials
7ordeals
"I __ remind you ... "
7neednot
Ribbon purchase qty.
3yds
Playbill list
4CAST
Place to raise the bar?
3gym
Cherry discard
3PIT
Cipher breakers
4keys
State with a potato museum
5IDAHO
Ballet leap
4JETE
Farm pen
3STY
Items in recipe boxes
10INDEXCARDS
NYC subway org.
3MTA
__ voce
5SOTTO
Understood
4ISEE
At what time?
4WHEN
Fedora, for one
3HAT
Like shoes that show off a pedicure
7opentoe
Spots for sheep to sleep
7meadows
Not all the same
7DIVERSE
Cheer up?
7GLADDEN
Are we there ___?
3YET
Mrs., in Madrid
3SRA
Manhattan event with many designers and runway models, for short
4nyfw
Arm joint
5ELBOW
__ Loa: world's largest active volcano
5mauna
Laundry batch
4LOAD
Finger-on-lips sound
3SHH
Hurricane center
3EYE
Super chill
3ZEN
Zig and --
3ZAG
You can __ that again
3SAY
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