Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Monday, August 3, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Monday, August 3, 2026 features 71 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "libraryshelves".
Total Clues
71
Longest
libraryshelves
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
EFT
ALLComplete Solution List
Collaboratively managed website
4wiki
Responded in court
4PLED
Big serving of cake
4slab
Vows exchanged with rings
4idos
Ireland, to the Irish
4EIRE
Novelist Vonnegut
4KURT
Hamilton bills
4TENS
Landed on a perch
4ALIT
Pet aisle brand
4iams
Long-lived plant native to the Sonoran Desert
13saguarocactus
Young newt
3EFT
__ and paste
3CUT
Places for books that may be borrowed
14libraryshelves
Extra sports periods, briefly
3OTS
You ___ what you sow!
4REAP
Handed out playing cards
5DEALT
Clearance rack caveat
4ASIS
Prepare to publish
4EDIT
Curved line on a musical score
4slur
Internet access device
5modem
Diary
4DEAR
End of a college email address
3EDU
Anatomical structure that includes bones and joints
14skeletalsystem
Lav
3LOO
Driving-range prop
3TEE
Bravely stand one's ground, or what 19-, 24-, and 45-Across typically do?
13showsomespine
Sweetheart
4BEAU
One with a superiority complex
4SNOB
Hammer, for one
4TOOL
Musical based on "La Bohème"
4RENT
Off-white hue
4ECRU
Woolly mamas
4EWES
Sportsbook figures
4ODDS
Monopoly card
4DEED
Fairy ___
4TALE
Comical wordsmiths
4wits
Brainstorming product
4IDEA
Hong __
4KONG
Credit card provider
6ISSUER
Partridge's place, in a Christmas song
8peartree
Disney's "___ & Stitch"
4LILO
"Springsteen" country singer Church
4eric
Disconnect
6DETACH
Fruity candy brand
8skittles
Party with poi
4LUAU
Sleeve fillers
4ARMS
K-pop band also known as the Bangtan Boys
3bts
Not at all close
4AFAR
Prompted, in a theater
4cued
Fertile soils
5LOAMS
There, there
5ITSOK
Back of a hit 45 record
5BSIDE
When repeated, "You know the rest"
5yadda
Sales pitch?
5SPIEL
Parking attendant
5VALET
Dodge
5ELUDE
Play a ukulele
5STRUM
Performances with no empty seats
8sellouts
Sensory receptor on a tongue
8tastebud
Cat's noise
4MEOW
Deli loaves that may be seeded or marbled
4ryes
Threw away
6TOSSED
12-Down, e.g.
6septet
__ money: startup funds
4SEED
Appendage often traced to draw a turkey in art class
4hand
Not often, but not never
4once
What___can I say?
4more
Des Moines' locale
4IOWA
Christmas carol
4NOEL
What___can I say?
4ELSE
Sis's playmate
3BRO
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