LA Times Crossword August 30 2026 Answers

LA Times Crossword August 30 2026 Answers & Clues

"Away from work" letters

OOO

"Buck-a-shuck" delicacy

OYSTER

"Sesame Street" basics

ABCS

"That's the guy!"

HIM

"This Is Us" director Ken

OLIN

"Tropic Thunder" actor Nick

NOLTE

"You got that right!"

YESINDEED

Actor Sheridan

TYE

Actor Simu

LIU

Anxiety-reducing feature of some tests

OPENNOTES

Baton Rouge sch.

LSU

Bear in a bamboo forest

PANDA

Big spender?

PRODIGALPERSON

Bit of moisture

DROPLET

Blissful spots

EDENS

Blue-roofed breakfast chain

IHOP

Blueprint deet

SPEC

Bonus for never giving up?

PERSEVERANCEPAY

Canary feed

SEEDS

Casting need

REEL

Casting need

ROD

Cause for a blessing

ACHOO

Clearasil rival

OXY

Coachella aesthetic

BOHO

Color similar to salmon

CORAL

Come up short

LOSE

Corundum, for one

MINERAL

Covers a lot of ground?

PAVES

Curved

ARCED

D.C. ballplayers

NATS

Deep carpet

SHAG

Device that might buzz during a night out?

SOCIALBEEPER

Dining hall offerings

MEALS

Disc golf obstacle

TREE

Double-check, in a way

REREAD

Draw of a dim sum cart

AROMA

Dress shape

ALINE

Elaborately embroidered falsehoods?

GRANDPERJURY

Electric violin hookup

AMP

Enter via cracks

SEEPIN

Fit to eat, to Muslims

HALAL

Fizzled out

ENDED

Flight board stats

ETDS

Folk instrument

BANJO

Fuse together

MELD

Fusses over, with "on"

DOTES

Garment once called a corselet-gorge

BRA

Gathering for chile lovers?

PEPPERRALLY

Gave the once-over

EYED

Girl who lost her sheep

BOPEEP

Give conditionally

LEND

Gooey lump

GLOB

Gotham City hero

BATMAN

Gracefully refined

ELEGANT

Great Plains people

OTOE

Great balls of fire

STARS

Green light for a lunar expedition?

MOONPERMISSION

Hackathon participant

CODER

Help in a burglary

ABET

Hip-hop's Salt-N-__

PEPA

Hockey great Bobby

ORR

Hog with tusks

BOAR

Home of the Nazca Lines

PERU

Ibiza, por ejemplo

ISLA

Intellectual stickler

PEDANT

Just slightly

ABIT

Key below ~

TAB

Kitchen cover-ups

APRONS

Lauder of cosmetics

ESTEE

Legal addendum?

ESE

Lends a hand

AIDS

Light as can be

AIRY

Like a bad breakup

MESSY

Like draft beer

ONTAP

Loads and loads

ATON

Lowest sudoku number

ONE

Lyft alternative

UBER

Mean

INTEND

Mil. mind game

PSYOP

Minecraft block

ORE

Molar cover

ENAMEL

Mollusk often pan-seared

SCALLOP

Morally pure

CHASTE

Mushroom with a pitted cap

MOREL

Nintendo virtual personae

MIIS

Noisy migratory birds

GEESE

Nokcha or sencha

TEA

None of the above

OTHER

Nonglossy lipstick option

MATTE

Nursery arrival

BABY

Offline, online

IRL

Optical effects caused by ice crystals

SUNDOGS

Orange sushi topping

ROE

Org.

ASSN

Part of a play

SCENE

Pascal of "The Last of Us"

PEDRO

People who pack picnic lunches?

HAMPEROPERATORS

Power source for a warp drive in "Star Trek"

ANTIMATTER

Pranked with Charmin

TPED

Promotional sample

DEMO

Pulpy refuse

POMACE

Quick meeting?

SESH

Recliner part

ARMREST

Sculling tool

OAR

Secular

LAIC

Settle elsewhere, casually

RELO

Singer India.__

ARIE

Sir __ Guinness

ALEC

Slushy treat

ICEE

Smiles brightly

BEAMS

Sock end

TOE

Some contract negotiators

AGENTS

Soon-to-be alums

SRS

Space balls?

ORBS

Spearheaded

LED

Special occasion

EVENT

Special offers at a body shop?

BUMPERDEALS

Spoiled

MARRED

Square up

ALIGN

Starbucks size

VENTI

Strike down, biblically

SMITE

Swahili for "lion"

SIMBA

Symbol of resistance

OMEGA

Take for a spin, perhaps

TEST

Tater

SPUD

Tells all

NAMESNAMES

Think piece?

IDEA

Tick away

ELAPSE

Totally stoked

HYPED

Trade show

EXPO

Trousers

PANTS

UFO engineers

ETS

Vegan milk option

SOY

Vibe

TENOR

Virtual persona

AVATAR

Wade clumsily

SLOSH

Washington Spirit player Morgan

ESME

Win the heart of

ENAMOR

Yawn-inducing

BLAH

Zigs or zags

VEERS

Zipper alternative

SNAPS

[Not my error]

SIC

__ acid

AMINO

__ fade: haircut with shaved sides

HITOP