LA Times Crossword October 8 2026 Answers

LA Times Crossword October 8 2026 Answers & Clues

"Wanna hear a secret?"

PSST

"Well, whaddaya know!"

HUH

"Why must you overcomplicate everything?," or what can be said about 16-, 24-, 49-, and 58-Across

ITSNOTTHATHARD

"You know it!"

YES

22-Down currency

BAHT

5G predecessor

LTE

Act the class clown

CRACKWISE

Also

TOO

Animated blue tang of film

DORY

Behind schedule

LATE

Blows it

ERRS

Bluefin, yellowfin, and blackfin

TUNAS

Body image?

XRAY

Brain scan letters

EEG

Cards at a casino?

IDS

Christ the Redeemer veneer material

SOAPSTONE

College town in Iowa

AMES

Contents of a cheese pull, often

MOZZARELLA

Cut with an axe

HEW

Diamond chain

ZALES

Figs. that may be delayed by weather

ETAS

Four or five, maybe

EARLYHOUR

Funny sketches

SKITS

Genre originally known as the West Coast sound

YACHTROCK

Gets lawyers involved

SUES

Glissade garb

TUTU

Glum

DOWN

Heavy burden

ONUS

Hoppy brew with a low ABV

SESSIONIPA

Hydrocortisone target

ITCH

Instrument in a "Baker Street" riff

SAX

Lakers legend Shaquille

ONEAL

Lean to one side

LIST

Lends color

DYES

Line of symmetry

AXIS

Little one

TOT

Lost colour

GREYED

Most susceptible to collecting dust?

SNEEZIEST

Murder-ous cry

CAW

Muse of poetry

ERATO

Not great, not terrible

SOSO

Only cardinal direction not in a state name

EAST

Pad see ew cuisine

THAI

Palindromic family member

DAD

Palindromic family member

SIS

Part of a routine

STEP

Password preceder

USERID

Perceived

SEEN

Places that are all fun and games

ARCADES

Prayer __

SHAWL

Prefix with -dermic or -thermic

HYPO

Pricey

STEEP

Ramble on

PRATE

Rink leap

AXEL

Riyadh resident

SAUDI

Sales channel

HSN

Some indigenous Mexicans

OTOMI

Sound heard around a crib

COO

Spanish one

UNO

Spider's spinning

WEB

Spur to action

URGE

Suggestive messages

SEXTS

Surf shop?

ETAILER

Take the path of least resistance, say

COAST

Territory "where America's day begins"

GUAM

Texting etiquette?

PLSANDTHX

Thompson of "Hedda"

TESSA

Tour de France distances, informally

KMS

Tree in the name of a Bay Area city

OAK

Vehicle that may be self-driving

CAR

Verbal finger wag

TSK

Wearable prize

MEDAL

__ Whip: frozen pineapple treat

DOLE