LA Times Daily Crossword July 4, 2026 Answers

1. Scratch pads? 9. Coastal region along the Santa Lucia Mountains 15. Backspin producer? 16. Coffee drink made with a frother 17. Coldplay hit co-produced by Avicii 19. Low digit? 20. Brand whose logo adorns Argentine soccer jerseys 21. Lake just south of London 22. Market openings, briefly 24. Heroic poetry 25. Fig. in a background check 26. Like Pluto, once 28. Hook's boatswain 30. Germ 31. Series opener 33. School zone sign 35. For the first time 36. No-nonsense 39. Socket set 41. Platform for content creators 43. Bracelet component 46. Towering 48. Not perfectly round 49. NYC setting 50. Football coach Pederson 52. Gouda alternative 53. Alexa device 55. Like 56-Down 57. Purple yam used in desserts 58. "Seven Nation Army" band 61. "Vacancy" singer Ari 62. Trattoria tubes 63. Apples in the trash, e.g. 64. Fourth of July treats

1. Packing 2. Using coded language 3. 1980s hit whose video drew a lot of attention? 4. Tax 5. Rival of The Djoker and Fed Express 6. Ooze 7. Shape with minor and major axes 8. Hardly ever 9. Ride-or-dies, for short 10. Org. whose first commissioner was former treasury secretary George S. Boutwell 11. Flight board info 12. Few and far between 13. Revolt 14. Email again 18. Palm springs? 23. Worried 27. "__ guacamole!" 29. Queen who appears at Epcot's Royal Sommerhus 30. Sharp turn 32. Russian refusal 34. 2022 title role for Tom Hanks 37. Learn by the book? 38. Latin attention-getter 40. Anwar who wrote "Revolt on the Nile" 41. Connects 42. Itchy, to Scratchy 43. Grown-up grub 44. Refrain from 45. Zeus's brain child? 47. Solitary sorts 51. Onset 54. __ up to 55. Prix __ 56. "Hotel Transylvania" protagonist 59. Mild alternative 60. Olympian Midori