LA Times Crossword July 12 2026 Answers

LA Times Crossword July 12 2026 Answers & Clues

"And also ... "

PLUS

"C'est la __!"

VIE

"Deal!"

SOLD

"Easier __ than done"

SAID

"Farewell, amici!"

CIAO

"Farewell, amigos!"

ADIOS

"Hanna" star Creed-Miles

ESME

"Lovecraft Country" actor Courtney B. __

VANCE

"Most likely ... "

ODDSARE

"The Fresh Prince of __-Air"

BEL

"What a bore"

HOWDULL

"__ you asked ... "

SINCE

2010 animated film featuring Princess Fiona

SHREKFOREVERAFTER

2024 Olympics host

PARIS

2028 Olympics host: Abbr.

USA

85-Across figure

OGRE

Accepting customers

OPEN

All excited

ATINGLE

Annabella of "Tulsa King"

SCIORRA

Annual Player Selection Meeting, informally

NFLDRAFT

Apology starter

MEA

Apple tablet

IPAD

Asian language

LAO

Attacks from all sides

BESETS

Backup for a proofreader, perhaps

ANOTHERPAIROFEYES

Beach city near Pepperdine

MALIBU

Birthstone between sapphire and topaz

OPAL

Burden

ONUS

Campus leader

DEAN

Celebrity couple

ITEM

City where pizza was invented

NAPLES

Compete against the clock

RACE

Confused state

FOG

Count (on)

RELY

Creature in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

DODO

Demolish

RAZE

Digital protection device?

STEELTOE

Each

APOP

Eye-related

OCULAR

Figure that comes with strings attached

MARIONETTE

Figure who manipulates flames in a Nickelodeon fantasy series

FIREBENDER

Finish

END

Flared skirt style

ALINE

Former

PRIOR

French greeting

ALLO

Frisbee, e.g.

DISC

Game for little batters

TEEBALL

Ginger __

ALE

Given to moping, maybe

EMO

Goes on and on

YAMMERS

Grandma, to some

MEEMAW

Grow increasingly recalcitrant

BECOMEUNGOVERNABLE

Handel oratorio

MESSIAH

Having trouble deciding

TORN

Hazardous gas

RADON

Head or heart follower

ACHE

Ice sheet

FLOE

Imrie of "The Thursday Murder Club"

CELIA

Inbox message

EMAIL

Intel gatherer

SPY

Largest Chinese ethnic group

HAN

Lasses

GALS

Lasting mark

SCAR

Lightweight fabric

LINEN

Like cupcakes but not muffins, usually

ICED

Love, in Italian

AMORE

Male swan

COB

Mandala medium, often

SAND

Many execs

MBAS

Massachusetts home of the Tanglewood Music Festival

LENOX

Mideast leader

EMIR

Military encampment unit

ARMYTENT

Mother-of-pearl

NACRE

Move slowly

INCH

Nev. neighbor

ARI

Newark's county

ESSEX

Nimble

AGILE

Not suitable

UNAPT

Note-passer's utterance

PSST

OB test

AMNIO

Old Renault

LECAR

Onigiri wrapper

NORI

Option B precursor

PLANA

Org. nicknamed "No Such Agency"

NSA

Owns

HAS

Oxymoron, or what can be found five times in this puzzle

CONTRADICTIONINTERMS

Palm berry

ACAI

Pardon

AMNESTY

Party-planning site

EVITE

Paul who played twins in "There Will Be Blood"

DANO

Penny

CENT

Permit

LET

Philosopher Immanuel

KANT

Phobia

FEAR

Physiologist Pavlov

IVAN

Pointy tooth

CANINE

Powerful groups

ELITES

Pres. on a dime

FDR

Quaint word of despair

ALAS

Reddish-brown tea

ROOIBOS

Reuben sandwich bread

RYE

Revise

EDIT

Ricelike pasta

ORZO

Romance

WOO

Rude one

BOOR

Sense

FEEL

Singer __ King Cole

NAT

Singer and civil rights activist Horne

LENA

Slimy mud

MIRE

Small porch

STOOP

Soup often garnished with bean sprouts

PHO

Square things

ATONE

Step on the scale?

SOL

Suffer public humiliation

FALLFLATONONESFACE

Supermodel Kate

MOSS

Texter's "Just a moment"

BRB

Throw out

TOSS

Tilt

LEAN

Toboggan, e.g.

SLED

Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature

OLGA

Took unnecessary risks, in a British idiom

SAILEDCLOSETOTHEWIND

Trolley car

TRAM

Unresponsive states

COMAS

Urchin

WAIF

Valuable to collectors

RARE

Villainous Count of kid-lit

OLAF

Vivid vegetable

BEET

Voting group

BLOC

WNW opposite

ESE

Winter resort rentals

SKIS

Winter stoats

ERMINES

Woolen cloth

TWEED

Work hard for

EARN

Wrap with tzatziki

GYRO

Wrinkle remover

IRON

__ Falls Convention

SENECA

__ acid

AMINO

__ cloth: Ghanaian textile

KENTE

__ of paradise

BIRD

__ well

ARTESIAN