Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Thursday, September 10, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, September 10, 2026 features 81 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "breakingtherules".
Total Clues
81
Longest
breakingtherules
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
ogs
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With deftness
4ABLY
Clogs up
4dams
Typical Stan Lee role
5CAMEO
Manitoba people
4CREE
Vinaigrette ingredient, initially
4evoo
Throw shade at
6hateon
Start filming, say
9hitrecord
Like a drive deep in the woods?
6errant
Pioneers of old-school rap, for short
3ogs
___ Lisa
4MONA
React to meeting one's hero, perhaps
5swoon
Wowza
6ohbaby
One pushed to make cuts?
9lawnmower
Mega- times mega-
4TERA
Disaster response org.
4FEMA
Actress Polo
4TERI
Bombeck who advised, "Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth"
4erma
Situated on
4ATOP
Sass
3LIP
Cheating, or what the black squares in rows 3, 5, 11, and 13 are doing
16breakingtherules
Abbr. in calculus class
3lim
Ditto
4SAME
Paradise
4EDEN
Celebrity pair
4item
Son of Hera
4ARES
Padre's hermanos
4TIOS
First responder
9paramedic
Game played in the trunk before a road trip?
6tetris
Mark
5GRADE
_____ bait
4LURE
Medical pen prefix
3EPI
Val Kilmer's "Top Gun" role
6ICEMAN
Couple's outing
9datenight
California wine valley
6SONOMA
Spot for dirty dishes
4sink
Corner chess piece
4ROOK
Actress who voices Bo Peep in the "Toy Story" franchise
5potts
___ bien
4TRES
Chlumsky of "Veep"
4ANNA
Hay fever sound
5achoo
Quick-witted
6BRIGHT
Doesn't bother
6LETSBE
___ darn tootin'!
3YER
Distraction
5decoy
Stratford-upon-___
4AVON
Team spirit
6MORALE
Turf
3SOD
Pool bounce
5CAROM
Fundamentally
6ATROOT
Have the best of intentions
8meanwell
Extremely long time
3EON
Toronto's prov.
3ONT
Chopped down
4HEWN
Sets off
7EMBARKS
Wraps tightly
7SWATHES
Neighborhood
4AREA
Amo, amas, ___
4AMAT
Shallowest Great Lake
4ERIE
Features of some jeans
4RIPS
Like some unauthorized editions
7fanmade
Mamma ___!
3MIA
Wordsmith's ref.
3OED
Many a Little Leaguer
7PRETEEN
Minor disruption
4BLIP
Pop star Ora
4rita
Up-and-coming
8EMERGENT
Mel B and Mel C bandmate
4GERI
Second, for one
4unit
Squirrel kin
6marmot
Pastry choice
6ECLAIR
The Beaver State
6OREGON
Suction tube.
6siphon
Polite addresses
5MAAMS
Crime novelist Buchanan
4EDNA
Long journeys
5TREKS
First capital of Alaska
5SITKA
Eclectic magazine
4UTNE
Web access co.
3ISP
Murmur
3COO
Summer hrs.
3DST
401(k) kin
3IRA
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