Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Friday, May 15, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Friday, May 15, 2026 features 79 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "scorningtheblues".
Total Clues
79
Longest
scorningtheblues
Avg Length
5.2
Shortest
kir
ALLComplete Solution List
Urban haze
4SMOG
Urban network
5ROADS
Parts of some locks
5hasps
Boring outcome?
4HOLE
Go up to
5endat
Yamaha woodwinds
5oboes
SNAP benefits org.
4usda
San Antonio site
5ALAMO
Take part financially
5buyin
Apparel worn between December 22 and January 19?
14capricornpants
Wine cocktail also called blanc-cassis
3kir
Mortgage agcy.
3FHA
Pair of ___
3two
Bill fig.
3AMT
Unappreciative of St. Louis's hockey team?
16scorningtheblues
Dearie
3HON
Expressions of discovery
4ahas
Bi- quadrupled
4OCTO
Four Quartets poet
5ELIOT
Writer Harte or wrestler Hart
4bret
Let's go!
5FREES
SoCal emer. force
4lafd
Puts away
4EATS
French street
3RUE
Starts a top-to-bottom demolition of an old facade?
16breaksthecornice
Drink suffix
3ADE
Biblical suffix
3ETH
Private aid gp.
3NGO
Largest U.S. union
3NEA
Shakespearean "Listen up!," or an apt title for this puzzle?
14lendmeyourears
Longtime college football coach Nick
5saban
Vintage violin
5AMATI
Smack
4SWAT
Scoundrel
5KNAVE
Almanac info
5TIDES
Cover, in a way
4PAVE
Alpine "song"
5YODEL
Put away
5STASH
Big Apple resident, for short
4nyer
"I'm sorta disappointed"
6shucks
Pompeii art form
6mosaic
Experienced sort
6oldpro
Locker contents
4gear
Try to access, as the back of a closet
7reachin
Borrowed
6ONLOAN
Hebrew month after Shevat
4adar
Curse
4DAMN
Enough!
8STOPTHAT
Rub shoulders (with)
6hobnob
Be next to
4ABUT
Kikkoman condiment
8soysauce
Louvre Pyramid architect
3PEI
Protected fig.
3ssn
Alternatively
5IFNOT
Causes to gasp, perhaps
4awes
Ration (out)
4METE
General ___ chicken
4TSOS
Friend of TV's Mary Richards
5rhoda
Brooks of country music
5GARTH
Lord, what fools ___ mortals be!
5THESE
Cinema icon born in Rome
5loren
Site of Napoleon's exile
4ELBA
Tallow kin
4LARD
Guilty expression
8ifeelbad
Traction providers
8bathmats
Hullabaloo
5FUROR
Cornerstone abbr.
4ESTD
Appealingly unconventional
7roguish
Place to keep toys?
6KENNEL
Benjamins
6CNOTES
Not exactly, but close ...
6INAWAY
"Developed With Dermatologists" lotion brand
6cerave
Spring holiday
6EASTER
Icicle spot
4EAVE
Give out
4EMIT
Nonsense word similar to "blah"
4yada
Jessica Mendoza's network
4espn
Cloud's place
3SKY
That's ___ brainer
3ANO
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