LA Times Daily Crossword May 9, 2026 Answers

1. Catalyst 8. Prompted 15. Generational tendency to delay speaking on video recordings 17. Something taken by a teller? 18. Hosp. areas 19. Settings 20. Like pitching machines and dinner guests 21. "Ya es suficiente" 23. 2015 NL Rookie of the year Bryant 24. Sole 25. Focuses of some museums 26. Start to some health consultations? 27. __ of nature 28. Fencing defense 30. Call into question 31. Rigs 32. Angular 33. Traps, in a way 34. Place that has rooms and a board 35. Garments often adorned with metallic thread called zari 36. Big name in comfort footwear 37. "As if" 41. "What she said" 42. Hit the runway 43. Stiller's partner 44. Software vehicles, once 45. "Hello __": classic barbershop song 47. Garage occupant 48. When one might find a blowout sale? 51. Pulitzer-winning play chronicled in the oral history "The World Only Spins Forward" 52. Headspring? 53. Feature of the logos of Heineken and Macy's

1. Finish line 2. Source of a good self-image 3. Composition of most of the observable universe 4. West __: upscale furniture store 5. Some dabbling ducks 6. __ itself 7. Candy named for a Mars family horse 8. Big name in loans 9. French dips? 10. Short lines at the register? 11. "Diet Pepsi" singer Addison 12. Scram 13. Magazine whose first editorial director was Gordon Parks 14. One of the Ramones 16. Miranda Cosgrove sitcom 22. Popular tablet 24. "Haha, u wish" 26. Chic accessory? 27. Bitter rivalry 29. Pair o' graphs? 30. Prohibits 31. Sagittarius, for one 32. Super duper? 33. Zohran who walked the length of Manhattan on June 20, 2025 34. Gorge 35. "Holes" novelist Louis 36. Trinidad's Pitch Lake, for one 38. "Be honest with yourself" 39. Lingua __ 40. __ sauce 42. Coverage issue 43. Subtle, as colors 45. King of Prussia attraction 46. Statement after putting down a card 49. On the __: chronically, casually 50. Title for some spouses