LA Times Crossword May 3 2026 Answers

LA Times Crossword May 3 2026 Answers & Clues

Advantage in some situations or an alternate title for this puzzle

ELEMENTOFSURPRISE

Agnus __

DEI

All the Light We Cannot See novelist Anthony

DOERR

Anise aperitif

OUZO

As a result of

DUETO

Baking ware thats only used periodically?

MUFFINSN

Bar mixers

SODAS

Basketball stuff

DUNK

Batteries in some remotes

AAS

Beauty aisle brand

OLAY

Bee keeper

APIARY

Big fuss

ADO

BlackBerrys e.g.: Abbr.

PDAS

Borden mascot

ELSIE

Boring

DULL

Brazilian coins

REALS

Bristlelike grippers on gecko feet

SETAE

Broadway awards

TONYS

Bunch of clowns maybe

CARLOAD

Business card no.

TEL

Can opener

POPTOP

Carrier whose primary hub is Charles de Gaulle

AIRFRANCE

Cary Grant film that airs periodically on classic movie channels?

ASANDOLDLACE

Chart topper

HIT

Cheerful

GLAD

Choice when the Tide runs out?

GAIN

Church instrument

ORGAN

Civil rights icon Mandela

NELSON

Clutch

GRASP

Clutched

HELD

Coins of the realm?

PENCE

College figs.

GPAS

Come on now!

PSHAW

Conspirator in Julius Caesar

CASSIUS

Cornwall lang.

ENG

Desert near the Sinai Peninsula

NEGEV

Dickens novel thats only read periodically?

DAVIDCUFIELD

Diggs of All American

TAYE

Dorm digs

SUITE

Due-in hr.

ETA

Elevator stop in Paris

ETAGE

Exchange words?

EDIT

Fancy tie

ASCOT

Features of PC towers once

CDDRIVES

Fellow

MAN

Fifth-largest Hawaiian island

MOLOKAI

Fills with love

ENAMORS

Fit to be farmed

ARABLE

Flavor of many a bright green martini

SOURAPPLE

Give some shade?

DYE

Go (for)

OPT

Go unused

LIEIDLE

God of Islam

ALLAH

Got the measure of

EYEDUP

Govern

RULE

Great Basin people

UTES

Greenhorn

NEWBIE

Grub

FARE

Hairstyling device applied periodically?

CURLINGFE

Hard pass

YEAHNO

Headliner

STAR

Hiccup

SNAG

Home of the Large Hadron Collider

CERN

If __ walls could talk ...

THESE

In accordance with

ASPER

In the past

EARLIER

Inseam unit

INCH

Inspired by

ALA

Intel org.

NSA

John Miltons Lycidas for one

ELEGY

Kaitlin of High Potential

OLSON

Lacking sharp sound quality briefly

LOFI

Legal org.

ABA

Letter before beta

ALPHA

Letter before sigma

RHO

Like a movie making fun of its own plot holes

META

Like many indie films

ARTSY

Like tiramisu and cannoli

ITALIAN

Lower arm bones

ULNAE

Lower leg bone

TIBIA

MLB stat

RBI

Mex. neighbor

USA

Midsize car

SEDAN

Military force

ARMY

Mockery

FARCE

Model Delevingne

CARA

Museum piece

RELIC

Must pay

OWESTO

Not you too!

ETTU

Now where __?

WASI

Ocean liner?

COAST

Olafs creator in Frozen

ELSA

Olympic sleds

LUGES

On the wrong path

ASTRAY

Only OK

SOSO

Oomph

ZIP

Pagoda instrument

GONG

Parroted

ECHOED

Per __

CAPITA

Perfect stand-up material performed periodically?

COMEDYAU

Periodically prone to breaking the speed limit?

PBFOOTED

Perseveres with

KEEPSAT

Physicist Newton

ISAAC

Portrayal

DEPICTION

Pre-eruption lava

MAGMA

Pt. of USNA

NAV

Pulled off

DID

Queen singer played periodically by Rami Malek?

FREDDIEHG

RN workplaces

ORS

Rae who plays President Barbie in Barbie

ISSA

Rescue dog e.g.

ADOPTEE

Ridicule

SNICKERAT

Rocky III actor

MRT

Scottish waters

LOCHS

Shelter org.

ASPCA

Shelter sound

ARF

Significant stretch

ERA

Snake __

OIL

Soapmaking supplies

LYES

Sports podcaster Katie

NOLAN

Summer in la cité

ETE

Surfaces that hold tracks and ties

ROADBEDS

Swimmers wear

CAP

Syndrome in The Incredibles e.g.

ENEMY

Takes a rideshare

UBERS

Teams adjective

OUR

Tech news site

CNET

The 587-piece Pokémon Eevee e.g.

LEGOSET

The Miners of the NCAA

UTEP

Times before eves in classified ads

AFTS

Tyler of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

AISHA

Udder part

TEAT

Upside found periodically in a bad situation?

AGLINING

Victory celebration

PARADE

Warms

HEATS

What a treat!

YAY

What a treat!

OHFUN

Word

TERM

Wrigley product

GUM

You __ do it!

CAN

__ Paulo Brazil

SAO

__ Quixote

DON

__ shed

SHE

__ turtle

SEA