Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, August 13, 2026 features 80 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.7 letters. The longest answer is "electricitybill".
Total Clues
80
Longest
electricitybill
Avg Length
4.7
Shortest
ORE
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Biblical queen's land
5SHEBA
Hurry! letters
4ASAP
Mojito garnish
4MINT
Cultured sort?
5PEARL
Interpretation
4TAKE
Chimps and gorillas
4APES
Like 11-Down and 27-Across, often
5ontap
Reply when Mr. Nicholson asks, "How do you like your coffee?"
9blackjack
Lode load
3ORE
Bam Adebayo's team
4heat
Merchant stalls
6kiosks
Reply when Mr. Garfunkel asks how everyone is doing?
7fineart
Beloved
4DEAR
Beer with a Grillo's Pickles flavor, briefly
3pbr
Short clip
3vid
Warbled
4SANG
Bicycle spokes, essentially
5RADII
Grand-scale tales
5sagas
Battle (for)
3VIE
Reply when Mr. Nye asks why there are so many wind turbines?
15electricitybill
Yahoo! alternative
3AOL
Midsize car
5SEDAN
Great Grandma
5MOSES
Lat neighbor
4DELT
Mean Girls screenwriter Tina
3FEY
Center prefix
3EPI
Big bustles
4ADOS
Reply when Ms. Deeley mentions her new TV gig?
7coolcat
One with an eye for dotting i's
6editor
Downsides
4CONS
Director DuVernay
3AVA
Reply when Mr. Hamill says, "May the Force be with you"?
9dittomark
Along for the ride, say
5INTOW
Nerve
4GALL
Lake at the Detroit River's end
4erie
Track star Bolt
5USAIN
Fashion monthly
4ELLE
Informal claim
4DIBS
Moore of "This Is Us"
5MANDY
Weird Al specialty
5SPOOF
Postimpressionist painter Rousseau
5henri
All finished, say
5eaten
Wacoal garment
3BRA
Cereal that once featured a crossword puzzle in magazine ads
9alphabits
Currently hitting
5atbat
Curing agent
4SALT
Otherwise called
3AKA
Like a bird feeder
8peckedat
College paths
6MAJORS
Some craft pours, for short
4ipas
Make out
4NECK
Tuts
4TSKS
Korean automaker
3KIA
Go amiss
3ERR
Grand-scale tale
4EPIC
Bon appetit
5DIGIN
Short trip
5VACAY
Rental car giant
4avis
River near the Great Pyramid
4NILE
Meshes well
4GELS
Interpretation
4READ
Spiky succulent
4ALOE
"Hi-ho, the derry-o" locale
4dell
Heads and tails
5SIDES
Academic gathering
9symposium
Back on the straight and narrow
8reformed
Fume
4BOIL
Be a rat
6TATTLE
One billion years
3EON
Yabba-dabba-___!
3DOO
Classic colas
5cokes
Board game with settlers
5catan
Dance around
5AVOID
Like some port
5tawny
Perimeter
4EDGE
Body wash brand
4dial
C'mon, ___ be fun
4ITLL
Spot for a tot
4CRIB
Cal. neighbor
3ari
Codebreaker Challenge org.
3nsa
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