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Today’s LA Times Puzzle
The LA Times Crossword from 10/12/2025 continues the tradition of quality puzzles with a distinctive California twist. Known for its clever themes and accessible yet challenging clues.
From the experienced team at Los Angeles Times, this daily crossword brings West Coast creativity to crossword enthusiasts everywhere.
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LA Times Crossword October 12 2025 Answers
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Sandos with two spreads
- Answer: PBJS
Restaurant chain co-founded by chef Matsuhisa
- Answer: NOBU
Star’s entourage
- Answer: POSSE
“You know you want to!”
- Answer: CMON
Floor plan unit
- Answer: ROOM
Country with a Persian-speaking majority
- Answer: IRAN
Operational launch time
- Answer: HHOUR
Yours, in hymns
- Answer: THINE
Unoriginal reply
- Answer: ECHO
Checkbook no.
- Answer: ACCT
Flanged support pieces
- Answer: IBARS
Actress Bailey
- Answer: HALLE
Big Apple team
- Answer: YANKS
Alpine course
- Answer: SKISLOPE
Spoke like a boxer
- Answer: BARKED
Explorer Erikson
- Answer: LEIF
Into the latest gadgets
- Answer: TECHY
Call made behind one’s back?
- Answer: BUTTDIAL
Stayed in line
- Answer: OBEYED
Div. of Labor
- Answer: OSHA
Williams with four Olympic gold medals
- Answer: VENUS
Holiday cusp
- Answer: EVE
Hoppy beer
- Answer: ALE
Snatch quickly
- Answer: GRAB
Specter
- Answer: WRAITH
Ready for a break
- Answer: TIRED
Lake near Carson City
- Answer: TAHOE
Charcuterie board selections
- Answer: SALAMIS
Retired record holder?
- Answer: IPOD
Production
- Answer: SHOW
Omega preceder
- Answer: PSI
Activist Yoko
- Answer: ONO
Stick on a pub wall
- Answer: POOLCUE
Multivolume ref.
- Answer: OED
Herb on a bánh mì sandwich
- Answer: CILANTRO
Govt. securities
- Answer: TBILLS
Capacious craft
- Answer: ARK
Rescue op
- Answer: EVAC
Knock, in slang
- Answer: DIS
Artemis org.
- Answer: NASA
“__ complicated”
- Answer: ITS
Can refuse to
- Answer: NEEDNT
Treats flavored with syrup
- Answer: SNOCONES
River project
- Answer: DAM
Went in circles
- Answer: GYRATED
Siglo de __: era of El Greco and Cervantes
- Answer: ORO
Patterned after
- Answer: ALA
Long-legged wader
- Answer: IBIS
Billy of “Titanic”
- Answer: ZANE
Fortnite Frenz 4 Ever Blaster, for one
- Answer: NERFGUN
Select with a mouse
- Answer: CLICK
Milk source in the Sahara
- Answer: CAMEL
Mural on plaster
- Answer: FRESCO
Subject that includes set theory
- Answer: MATH
Prefix with natal
- Answer: NEO
USPS abbr.
- Answer: AVE
__ Loops
- Answer: FROOT
Court target
- Answer: HOOP
Barely sufficient
- Answer: MEAGER
Subject that includes gender theory
- Answer: SEXOLOGY
Islanders’ NHL division, familiarly
- Answer: METRO
Animation collectibles
- Answer: CELS
Stumble over
- Answer: TRIPON
List of specialized terms
- Answer: GLOSSARY
“Dos Mujeres” painter
- Answer: KAHLO
Football features
- Answer: LACES
Scrub, as a mission
- Answer: ABORT
Sporty car roof
- Answer: TTOP
Dish in a bowl
- Answer: SOUP
“My stars!”
- Answer: EGADS
Episcopal figure
- Answer: VICAR
Stealthy flyers
- Answer: OWLS
Clark from Smallville
- Answer: KENT
Wildlife refuges
- Answer: DENS
Walled Spanish city
- Answer: AVILA
Dig like a pig
- Answer: ROOT
Seeks information
- Answer: ASKS
DOWN
Salmon, to bears
- Answer: PREY
__ Raton
- Answer: BOCA
“Boom Boom” blues legend
- Answer: JOHNLEEHOOKER
“__ and the Bandit”
- Answer: SMOKEY
“Candyman” director DaCosta
- Answer: NIA
Brutish Tolkien characters
- Answer: ORCS
Approach that emphasizes fundamentals
- Answer: BACKTOBASICS
Disentangles
- Answer: UNTIES
Group that can play a symphony
- Answer: PHILHARMONICORCHESTRA
“I can’t wait!”
- Answer: OHBOY
Stuff in a pump bottle
- Answer: SOAP
Guaranteed winner
- Answer: SUREBET
Workplaces for triage nurses: Abbr.
- Answer: ERS
Leafy vegetable
- Answer: CHARD
More opalescent
- Answer: MILKIER
Ashore, perhaps
- Answer: ONLEAVE
Mocked playfully
- Answer: NEEDLED
“What a shame”
- Answer: THATSTOOBAD
Sustained attack
- Answer: SIEGE
Phonetic symbol
- Answer: SCHWA
Furnace meas.
- Answer: BTU
Pres. who created the “alphabet agencies”
- Answer: FDR
Not cool
- Answer: UNHIP
Breakfast sometimes prepared overnight
- Answer: OATS
Ho-hum
- Answer: BLAH
Helmet feature
- Answer: VISOR
Pet welfare org.
- Answer: ASPCA
“Yer lyin’!”
- Answer: AINTSO
South Indian rice cake
- Answer: IDLI
“You __ it to yourself … “
- Answer: OWE
Word rapper Bow Wow dropped from his stage name
- Answer: LIL
Nursery containers
- Answer: POTS
Footwear for boulderers, and what can be found in this puzzle’s circled letters
- Answer: CLIMBINGSHOES
Final: Abbr.
- Answer: ULT
Squiggly letter
- Answer: ESS
Hygiene tool on a spool
- Answer: DENTALFLOSS
Loves to bits
- Answer: ADORES
“How many sugars?,” quaintly
- Answer: ONELUMPORTWO
Lee with two Best Director Oscars
- Answer: ANG
“West Coast” singer Lana Del __
- Answer: REY
Powerful engine named for its shape
- Answer: VTEN
Mountain pose, for one
- Answer: ASANA
Stunned state
- Answer: DAZE
Baseball team’s starting lineup, e.g.
- Answer: NONET
Pester
- Answer: NAG
Feel rotten
- Answer: AIL
Clear of condensation
- Answer: DEFOG
Drink with a domed lid
- Answer: ICEE
Toffee candy bar
- Answer: SKOR
__ the bill
- Answer: FOOTS
Sass
- Answer: CHEEK
Made a two-piece chess move
- Answer: CASTLED
Just OK
- Answer: AVERAGE
Like axolotls
- Answer: MEXICAN
Colorful character?
- Answer: ROYGBIV
Flix sister station
- Answer: TMC
Actor Funches of Apple TV+’s “Loot”
- Answer: RON
One on the stump
- Answer: ORATOR
“North to the Future” state
- Answer: ALASKA
Persuasive columns
- Answer: OPEDS
__ compass
- Answer: MORAL
Focal points
- Answer: LOCI
“Let’s do it!” hashtag
- Answer: YOLO
Knucklehead
- Answer: LUNK
Decides
- Answer: OPTS
Gardner of “Show Boat”
- Answer: AVA
LAX clock setting
- Answer: PST