LA Times Daily Crossword June 23, 2026 Answers

1. Voting faction 5. Botanical transplant 10. Post that's bigger than a gig 13. Like chocolate lava cake 14. "Folklore" music artist Swift 15. "__ seen worse" 16. Disc-tossing team sport 19. "Aw, so sweet!" 20. Like elevator music 21. Chicken __ king 22. Actor Cariou 23. Contest played on a star-shaped board 32. Ascends 33. South African language with click consonants 34. Tuna roll topper 35. Some hazy brews, for short 36. Piano pieces for four hands 37. "You're not wrong" 38. 28-Down amenity, maybe 39. Ballet class rail 40. Plump pet, slangily 41. Pool hall activity 44. __ de la Cité: Notre-Dame home 45. Coffee container 46. Not much 50. Spine-tingling artwork? 54. Nintendo player's side quest, or what the circled letters of 16-, 23-, and 41-Across create 56. Cenozoic __ 57. Like alpacas 58. A bird flying into the house, say 59. Cold War operative 60. Agreements 61. Bit of headway

1. Like dry champagne 2. Disney girl who teaches Stitch the meaning of ohana 3. Prefix meaning "eight" 4. Sequences of tight turns on racecourses 5. Frontier departure point? 6. Marbled bread 7. Italian sports car, briefly 8. Unshaped 9. NYC nabe south of SoHo 10. Align (with) 11. Roasting appliance 12. Red root vegetable used in some dyes 14. Breezy goodbyes 17. Cocktails made with lime, vodka, and ginger beer 18. Dishwasher's station 23. Like tempura 24. River-dwelling mammal that can't swim 25. Sci-fi writer Asimov 26. Area far from downtown 27. French darling 28. Tourist's base 29. __ in judgment 30. Tournament division 31. Tries to find 36. NBC news show since 1992 37. "What a relief!" 39. I-495 in Washington, D.C., e.g. 40. About, in dates 42. Toy that may get stuck in a tree 43. Greg Evans comic strip 46. Grows older 47. In-person fantasy event, casually 48. "Thinking about it" 49. LAX projections 50. Lack of objectivity 51. Unlikely to get out of hand 52. "Darn straight" 53. Sleeping bag spot 55. "__ Haw"