Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, August 5, 2026 features 77 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "startfromscratch".
Total Clues
77
Longest
startfromscratch
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
ELK
ALLComplete Solution List
Mess up
5BOTCH
Beer foam
4HEAD
Golden Arches sandwich
5mcrib
Sneeze sound
5ACHOO
Upfront stake
4ANTE
Family, in Hawaiian
5OHANA
First lesson in "How To DJ"?
16startfromscratch
Summer shirts
8tanktops
Let me say it again ...
7IREPEAT
Antlered grazer
3ELK
Trauma ctrs.
3ERS
Vocalized
4ORAL
First lesson in "Plumbing: A Beginner's Guide"?
13taketheplunge
Rights org.
4ACLU
Uttered
4SAID
Mexican state on the Gulf of California
6SONORA
Leap happily
5bound
Some jeans
4LEES
Lute in Hindi cinema
5sitar
Hosts
6EMCEES
2022 Super Bowl winners
4rams
Forecast no.
4TEMP
First lesson in "Sport Climbing and You"?
13learntheropes
Like Death Valley
4ARID
Coconut __
3OIL
Poke bowl protein
3AHI
Home exercise bike brand
7peloton
Natural disaster, legally
8ACTOFGOD
First lesson in "A Handbook of Competitive Eating"?
16stepuptotheplate
More frigid
5ICIER
Ingredient in a cooling lotion
4aloe
Locations for Christmas lights
5eaves
Welcome relief on a hot day
5shade
Scottish lids
4TAMS
High-protein grain
5SPELT
Slather with butter, perhaps
5baste
In base eight
5OCTAL
"You'll __ me someday"
5thank
Winery keepsake
4cork
Throat-soothing brew
6hottea
Ice dweller off the coast of Greenland
8harpseal
Actress Mireille
4ENOS
Self-serve bank device
3atm
"You are my fire / The one __": "I Want It That Way" opening lyrics
6desire
Cherries atop Black Forest cake
8morellos
Crack, as lips
4CHAP
Assign stars to
4RATE
Cuzco civilization
4inca
Thai currency whose symbol was once used to represent Bitcoin
4baht
Tined flatware
5forks
Dice game
5CRAPS
Heavens
6OHDEAR
Guitar peg, e.g.
5tuner
Like the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
6tiered
Bushels and pecks
5units
Scribbled reminder
4note
Family nickname
4GRAM
Wyatt of Tombstone
4EARP
Biblical brother
4ABEL
Follow me
4COME
Pixar film about a young sea monster
4luca
Unfold, as a protein
8denature
Makes (out)
8smooches
Sharpen on a leather belt
5strop
Ill will
5SPITE
Suggest
6HINTAT
Gets married by Elvis, perhaps
6elopes
Tequila plant
5AGAVE
Guest spot?
5HOTEL
Namely
5IDEST
Trident-shaped letters
4PSIS
__ a Sketch
4ETCH
Skywalker raised on Alderaan
4leia
Pointed column
4oped
Chemistry class model
4ATOM
Try to fly
4FLAP
Lisbon greeting
3OLA
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