LA Times Daily Crossword August 14, 2025 Answers

1. Picnic spoilers 5. Dad jokes, often 9. Hardly reticent 14. Zoom call button 15. Privy to 16. Works the soil 17. With the bow, in music 18. Muppet who refers to himself in the third person 19. Detective Holmes 20. Slow-cooked rice dishes 22. Loosen, as shoelaces 23. Sorts projects by priority 25. CGI invaders 26. Summitt in the Basketball Hall of Fame 29. "__ of discussion" 30. Oxidize 33. Iridescent gems 35. "Ugly Betty" actress 39. Common midcentury modern suburban home, or what is depicted by each set of circled letters 42. Cadillac SUV 43. Puts money in 44. Steep-walled formation 45. Off-rd. ride 47. Game, __, match 48. Org. for locavores 51. Rahm who was U.S. Ambassador to Japan until 2025 54. First-stringers 57. Legendary reptile with a fatal gaze 61. Back in style 62. Google __ 63. Not twice 64. Judges' seats 65. Pernicious 66. Rip-off 67. Big hit 68. Target of CRISPR editing 69. 50+ group

1. Partly open 2. Seaweed wrapper on Spam musubi 3. Small spasms 4. Snob 5. Tart pan 6. Vent frustration 7. Claim on some ramen packets 8. __-Caps 9. Powerful engine 10. Porcine noise 11. Exact copy 12. Apportion 13. Exams for future AGs 21. Railroad support 22. Normal 24. Sea eagle 26. Cat or cow, e.g., in yoga 27. Starters, casually 28. Soft mineral 31. "Me too" 32. 1982 film set inside a mainframe 34. Actor Neeson 35. Wide st. 36. Sounds of rebuke 37. "Understood" 38. Key lime pie garnish 40. Cuts with a beam 41. Semisoft cheese 45. Big name in headache remedies 46. Scuffle 48. Nutrients eschewed on Atkins 49. Momentum 50. Insurer owned by CVS Health 52. On top of 53. Literature Nobelist Mario Vargas __ 55. Story lines 56. __ pit 58. Machu Picchu native 59. Mark that may be emotional or physical 60. Dole's 1996 running mate 62. Ph.D., for one