LA Times Daily Crossword October 18, 2026 Answers
By Patti Varol
The 144 answers for the October 18, 2026 edition of the LA Times Daily Crossword crossword are listed below in full. Whether you got stuck on 1 Across or a tricky Down clue, scroll through our complete solution or use the grid to find the exact answer you're looking for.
Across
1.
Come & Get It! pet food brand
5.
"Scrubs" role for Judy Reyes
10.
Some language exams
15.
Escalator part
19.
Large Hadron Collider org.
20.
Orca habitat
21.
Upgrade, as machinery
22.
Simplicity
23.
Fizzled out
24.
Versace parent company
25.
"12-Point Type: A History"?
27.
Prankster?
30.
Fortune
31.
Corporate VIPs
32.
Dance club version, say
34.
Like fabric in a quilting kit
38.
Silver-white metal
41.
Audition hopeful
43.
Like a car made between 1919 and 1930
44.
"You for Me" singer Rita
45.
Cut-rate vacation rentals?
49.
Issa of "Insecure"
50.
Chutney fruit
52.
D-backs st.
53.
Chimp kin
54.
Helsinki native
55.
Perform terribly
56.
Barbie's boo
57.
IRS convenience
58.
Pickles
59.
Rowlands with an Honorary Academy Award
60.
Poor grade
61.
Played a pipe in a parade
62.
Figure in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition
63.
Decorative jugs
65.
Teams
66.
Home network need
67.
"MasterChef" host Gordon
69.
Bank investment?
70.
Word with brow or blow
71.
__ bean
74.
Noisy, as a crowd
75.
Driveway brick
76.
With 16-Down, official cocktail of the city of Oakland
77.
Shot in the arm, say
78.
Eyelash treatment
79.
Basic framework
80.
Frames
81.
Leftover
82.
Playpen denizen
83.
Motto of a therapist who uses origami to teach anger management?
86.
Cake mix need
87.
Traditional source of wood for baseball bats
89.
On the periphery
90.
"No __!"
92.
Had a snack
93.
Fillable flatbreads
95.
H-Town ALer
96.
Gain back
98.
Morning-after-the-wedding stories?
104.
Useful tool in making some Thanksgiving pies?
108.
Vedder of Pearl Jam
109.
Make mittens, perhaps
110.
Winged archer
111.
Primer mes del año
112.
PowerPoint unit
113.
Periphery
114.
Well-worn trail
115.
Showed again
116.
Words to live by
117.
Short message of gratitude
Down
1.
Adapter letters
2.
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" speaker
3.
Slice and dice, perhaps
4.
Coming right up
5.
"Priscilla" writer/director Sofia
6.
Ranch units
7.
Raise
8.
Some pub pals
9.
"Devious Maids" star
10.
Magic, on sports tickers
11.
Form of energy healing
12.
Tack on
13.
"Not one word of this is true!"
14.
Walking noisily
15.
The continents, e.g.
16.
See 76-Across
17.
PC "oops" key
18.
Split __ soup
26.
Forest plants
28.
Hoka rival
29.
Highlighter hue
33.
Automatic drip-brew pioneer
35.
One with next-level skills in being thoughtful and compassionate?
36.
Tanzania neighbor
37.
Wee
38.
Claim on some menus
39.
Mighty mad
40.
The dog days of summer?
41.
Correspond
42.
Adam's eldest
43.
Ivy, for one
46.
Tools with teeth
47.
Zodiac ram
48.
Un-locked?
51.
Really bothers
54.
Mozilla web browser
57.
Down source
58.
Figure, casually
60.
Towel off
61.
Fin
62.
"I don't have all day!"
64.
Tuner's asset
65.
Cut
66.
Damp
67.
Lanai furniture material
68.
Melodic passage
69.
Strike zone?
70.
Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick
72.
Brink
73.
Wise words
75.
Leader of the Holy See
76.
Attic pests
77.
Strong urge
79.
Big name in classic travel guides
80.
Disorderly place
83.
Primp
84.
Island feast
85.
Springsteen's __ Band
88.
Clobber
91.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" voice role for Bradley Cooper
93.
Overly inquisitive sort
94.
Prefix with structure
95.
Slyly cutting
97.
Hathaway of "The Odyssey"
99.
Just chilling
100.
All-father of Norse myth
101.
Roddick who was the last American man to win the US Open
102.
__ in a blanket
103.
Half note feature
104.
Energy
105.
Cy Young stat
106.
Basic bed
107.
Long time
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How many clues are in the LA Times Daily Crossword crossword from October 18, 2026?
The LA Times Daily Crossword crossword from October 18, 2026 contains 144 clues and answers.
The puzzle has 71 Across clues and 73 Down clues.
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