LA Times Crossword May 21 2026 Answers

LA Times Crossword May 21 2026 Answers & Clues

"Beetlejuice" director Burton

TIM

"I feel seen"

ITME

"Long," in Hawaiian

LOA

"Tartuffe" playwright

MOLIERE

"The Code Breaker" subj.

DNA

*"I Just Called To Say I Love You" singer

STEVIEWONDER

*Apprenticeship in the ways of The Force

JEDITRAINING

*Brunch choice

FRENCHOMELET

*Negro Leagues player in the Baseball Hall of Fame

SATCHELPAIGE

Artist known for fabric-wrapped installations

CHRISTO

Astonishment

AWE

Barbershop parts

TENORS

Big rigs

SEMIS

Bitter beers

ALES

Call dibs on

CLAIM

Call, as a cab

HAIL

Campus mil. unit

ROTC

Central Texas city

ABILENE

Charger, e.g.

AUTO

City birds

PIGEONS

Comedy series featuring Lily Tomlin

LAUGHIN

Couple of bucks?

STAGS

Didn't play

SAT

Digital exec

CTO

Disney film set in Polynesia

MOANA

Draped silk dress

SARI

Educational acronym

STEM

Eel in maki sushi

UNAGI

Fan

NUT

Fertilizer from bats

GUANO

First sultan of Syria and Egypt

SALADIN

Footnote abbr.

ETAL

Grown boys

MEN

Inspiring figure

MUSE

Jerky brand

SLIMJIM

Key West, e.g.

ISLE

Kitchen initialism

EVOO

Language of Sri Lanka

TAMIL

Laptop brand

ACER

Last book of the Old Testament

MALACHI

Laziness

INERTIA

Leg day exercise

LUNGE

Like some ruins in Peru

INCAN

Locavore's org.

CSA

Loses steam?

COOLS

Maine course

LOBSTER

Makes less wild

TAMES

Martini liquor

GIN

Mentor of Minions

GRU

Music producer Brian

ENO

Navigation tech

GPS

Not well-matched

UNFIT

Only major U.S. city founded by a woman

MIAMI

Opera solos

ARIAS

Oyster opener

OTTER

Pasta ingredient

EGG

Purple bloom

IRIS

Put away

STOW

Result of advancing in the field?

RBI

Roadside org.

AAA

Sauna openings?

PORES

Sis, for one

SIB

Skin soothers

LOTIONS

Small cut

SLIT

Snacks stuffed with "stuf"

OREOS

Sock part

TOE

Sound investments?

STEREOS

Sparkly stuff

GLITTER

Speed reader?

TACH

Sue Grafton's "__ for Malice"

MIS

Sure to end badly

NOWIN

Swe. neighbor

NOR

Tax agcy.

IRS

Texting format initials

SMS

Tolkien characters who like to eat six meals a day

HOBBITS

Under the weather

ILL

Unpublicized restaurant offering, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue

SECRETMENU

Web feed initials

RSS

World Series mo.

OCT

__ Cortina 2026

MILANO

__ shu pork

MOO