LA Times Daily Crossword August 2, 2025 Answers

1. Strategic chess move, casually 4. Vegetable in Nigerian cuisine 8. 41-Across developer 12. Thin reed 14. Each 15. Home of the Nubian Pyramids 16. Handy navigational aids 18. Came to the surface 19. Chap with chaps, perhaps 20. "Let's meet up then" 21. Cold draft in the winter, say 24. Not altogether in the altogether 26. Least sanguine 27. Niger neighbor 28. Opposite of fore 31. Org. that accepts returns 32. Ballpark souvenir 34. Spanish pronoun 35. Opposing vote 36. Brew that might have ice or spice in it 37. "Glad and big" protagonist of an e.e. cummings poem 39. Tie 41. Major medical breakthrough of the 1950s 43. Places for puffers 45. Shell casing? 46. Tidbits 49. City west of the Wasatch Mountains 50. Salvadoran eatery 52. Area of expertise, casually 53. Brownie point? 54. Home of many a steppe family 55. Fantasy football datum 56. "Charlie's Angels" star Cheryl 57. Astronaut Jemison

1. Reach great heights 2. Pokémon that ultimately evolves into Alakazam 3. Summery dip 4. Savors the moment 5. Liqueur similar to Campari 6. Dodgers legend Campanella 7. Covert __ 8. Enjoyed the motion of the ocean 9. Crush on 10. Element of a security grid in many an action film 11. Arthroscopy target 13. Epoch that produced the earliest primate fossils 15. Carnival performers 17. "Something smells good in here!" 20. "Someone in my circle probably knows the answer" 22. Loc. of an annual November marathon 23. Need kneading, maybe 24. Bar tended to at a cookout 25. __ package 28. Source of immunity 29. Satyr kin 30. "Just My __: A Book About Fonts" 33. Annoyance 38. Concert stage effect 40. "Juno and the Paycock" playwright 41. Heady 42. Took off at a jazz club 43. Spectacle 44. __ fast 45. Kitchen stack 47. Source of some Turkish delight? 48. Fully appease 50. D.C. insider 51. Cavaliers sch.