LA Times Crossword August 20 2026 Answers

LA Times Crossword August 20 2026 Answers & Clues

"Bike faster!"

PEDAL

"How amusing"

HEH

"My conscience whispers in your __": "King John"

EAR

"The Devil in the White City" writer Larson

ERIK

"You said it!"

AMEN

Appliance alert

BEEP

Belfast-born actor Stephen

REA

Big hit at the ballpark

HOMER

Bit of fishing gear

REEL

Bit of hamster food

PELLET

Boyos

LADS

Bread machine

ATM

Bucks and does

DEER

Bucks, but not does

HES

Casino game

KENO

Casual hellos

YOS

Chocolate substitute

CAROB

Contrail location

SKY

Create a clean slate?

ERASE

Defiant response to a threat

TRYME

Dismissive syllable

FEH

Do the same as

IMITATE

Doesn't just assume

ASKS

E, in Morse code

DIT

Error

MISSTEP

Ethan of the "Before" trilogy

HAWKE

Flowering plant once believed to repel pests

FLEABANE

Fossil-preserving gunk

TAR

Fuming

IRATE

Gets even with

REPAYS

Grain ground to make masa

CORN

Half a sextet

TRIO

Hard stuff for a sweet tooth

JAWBREAKERCANDY

Hard stuff in a bar

ALCOHOLICDRINKS

Hard stuff in rings

NATURALDIAMONDS

Hard stuff in school

ROCKETSCIENCE

High or low follower, in graphics

RES

Hip-hop pioneer Dr. __

DRE

Ignited

LIT

In shape

FIT

Ingredient meas.

TBSP

Leave speechless

STUN

Licoricelike herb

ANISE

Marina __ Rey, California

DEL

Marketplace with personalized gifts

ETSY

Mars rover org.

NASA

Mosque leader

IMAM

Muslim headscarf

HIJAB

NNE, SSW, etc.

DIRS

Nocturnal flapper

BAT

Numbers for letters

RENTS

Nutritional amt.

RDA

One who always gives star treatment?

CRITIC

Online access username within universities, briefly

NETID

Ore-rich vein

SEAM

Org. that oversees food recalls

FDA

Peaceful getaway spot

RETREAT

Place

SITE

Proper

APT

Radio static sound

CRACKLE

Relativity, for one

THEORY

Rigorous evaluation

ACIDTEST

Robin Hood foe

SHERIFF

Secondary structure

ANNEX

Similar (to)

AKIN

Small floral bundle

POSY

Sports analyst Kimes

MINA

Thing of the past

RELIC

Tollbooth pricing unit

AXLE

Trim, as a photo

CROP

Unreliable stat from the fashionably late

ETA

Unspecified person

ONE

Utterly exhausted

BONETIRED

Well-financed gp.?

OPEC

Word with circle and tube

INNER

__ culpa

MEA