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LA Times Crossword Answers & Hints - October 21, 2026
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October 21, 2026
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Across
1.Second-largest city in Pakistan6 letters7.Tells a fish story, maybe6 letters13.40-Across layer6 letters14.Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune covered by Perry Como7 letters15."Charge!"6 letters16.Bread for a bacon, egg, and cheese, often8 letters17.Carved-out corner5 letters18.Gasp for breath4 letters19.Triple espresso effect4 letters20.Submit6 letters22.Before now3 letters24.Circle segment3 letters26.Key lime pie feature4 letters27.Root ball wrapper6 letters31.Bert who played the Cowardly Lion4 letters33.Guest speaker's platform4 letters35.Southwestern building block5 letters36.Farewell that's bid5 letters38.Blasting material3 letters39.Imitated a crow5 letters40.Back tooth5 letters41.Enthralled4 letters43.March Madness org.4 letters44.Uptight6 letters46.Chowder protein4 letters48.Fla. NBA team3 letters49.Vote in favor3 letters50."Yo!"6 letters52.Help in wrongdoing4 letters55."Project Hail Mary" actor Gosling4 letters57.Kirsten of "Melancholia"5 letters60.Lamented8 letters62.Get comfortable, with "in"6 letters63.Treat at New Orleans' Café du Monde7 letters64.Arts supporter6 letters65.Bit of progress6 letters66.Like a raw hemline6 letters
Down
1.Like a chicken burger4 letters2.Opposed to4 letters3.New Mexico pepper10 letters4.Nebraska home of the Durham Museum5 letters5.Fairly new6 letters6.Bugling deer3 letters7.Rounds of the night table?6 letters8.Not new3 letters9.Sneaker with the Jumpman logo9 letters10."Scram!"4 letters11.Like a giant redwood4 letters12.Delta deposit4 letters14.Outlaw3 letters16.Ballot dangler in 2000 election news11 letters18.Party animal?6 letters21.Jerry Stiller, to Ben Stiller3 letters23.Green blob on a taco, familiarly4 letters24.San Antonio school trip destination5 letters25.Gas measured in a home inspection5 letters28.Region of South Carolina and Georgia, or what can be found in 3-, 9-, 16-, and 32-Down10 letters29.Build-__ Workshop: toy retailer5 letters30.Go by bike5 letters32.All set9 letters34.Pinched6 letters37.Exhort4 letters42.Like some Pride Month celebrants3 letters45.Did the work for6 letters47.Term of affection6 letters51."Get __ here!": "Scram!"5 letters52."Broad City" star Jacobson4 letters53.Has-__4 letters54.Qatar leader4 letters56.Still3 letters58.Gin infusion berry4 letters59.Watch over, as sheep4 letters61.The NHL's Ducks, on sports tickers3 letters62.Block letters?3 letters
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