LA Times Crossword Hints October 29 2023

Our LA Times Crossword Hints for October 29, 2023 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a clue. The LA Times Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle published in the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest newspapers in the United States. It is highly regarded by crossword enthusiasts for its challenging clues and clever themes. It is a traditional-style crossword, with a grid of black and white squares, and clues in both the across and down directions. The LA Times Crossword offers a daily challenge for solvers of all levels, from beginner to expert.

LA Times Crossword Hints, October 29, 2023

You’ll find hints for all of the crossword clues for the LA Times Crossword on 10/29/23. The clues are listed below, and you can click/tap on a clue to go to its page for more detail, including definitions, but if you don’t want to be immediately spoiled, you can reveal letter by letter to still offer yourself more of a challenge before revealing the full solution.


  • “The Name of the Game” pop quartet

  • Driver’s lic. info

  • Nixed, at NASA

  • Back teeth

  • Adolescent

  • Concessions purchase

  • Very, informally

  • Bright red liqueur

  • Date night, or a midgame show starring Beyoncé instead of the coach’s nephew’s garage band?

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  • Stovetop piper

  • Still going

  • Cappuccino topping

  • Prophetic sign

  • Pliable wood

  • English article

  • “And so forth” abbr.

  • Bohr played by Kenneth Branagh in “Oppenheimer”

  • Word with bright or big

  • Giving up a lazy Saturday to clean up a beach at sunrise, or waking up to pancakes instead of gruel?

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  • Busy mo. for a 102-Across

  • Weep

  • Brazilian berry

  • Cancel

  • Ease of movement

  • Target

  • Food stamp org.

  • A chic gray bob and cat eye bifocals, or sleeping until noon and dancing until dawn?

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  • Classified

  • Ethically indifferent

  • Skip over

  • Fast Amtrak train

  • Took first place

  • Underground systems

  • Fluffy craft supply

  • Writing tip?

  • Adventure game console

  • Soy block

  • “I am enough,” e.g.

  • Snouts

  • Cardstock instead of newsprint, or the work of a wordy student?

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  • Feel (for)

  • Spanish diacritic

  • Meetings

  • Bite noisily

  • Operatic icon

  • Pub choice

  • Wolfed down

  • “The copy editor says this needs a capital letter,” or a judge saying “Not enough evidence” in a bass-baritone?

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  • Flit

  • Greek fabulist

  • Wallach of “The Holiday”

  • Tax prep pro

  • Scolding sound

  • Spring

  • 2-Down, for one

  • Ready at a moment’s notice

  • “Girl on Fire” singer Keys

  • God’s rest on the seventh day, or forty winks on a bunk bed?

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  • Sharp grabbers

  • Large barrel

  • Fish caught in pots

  • Hippocratic __

  • Orbital extreme

  • 18-wheeler

  • “Happy now?”

  • __ bargain

  • Up, in baseball

  • Canvas for many an arborglyph

  • Midler of “Hocus Pocus”

  • Against

  • Play-__: Fun Factory clay

  • Norwegian saint

  • Balderdash

  • Cappuccino topping, perhaps

  • __-Wan Kenobi

  • Jewel

  • Cookie used to make Halloween bat-shaped treats

  • Manage with whatever’s available

  • 1968 to now, in professional tennis

  • “__ the games begin!”

  • Highbrow

  • Part

  • Whole lot

  • Heraklion’s island

  • Eternally

  • Event where pies win ribbons

  • “La Bohème” heroine

  • Prickly plants

  • Like fertile soil

  • Bolsa Chica State Beach’s locale, informally

  • Single-season bloom

  • Actress Pam

  • Take a shot at

  • Promposal goal

  • Appliance that performs under pressure?

  • In the buff

  • Happy

  • Dollar alternative

  • Give ‘em the old razzle-dazzle, say

  • Weak spot

  • Many Oscar contenders

  • Not as well

  • Sale caveat

  • Hirsute cousin

  • Punk offshoot

  • Drain

  • Plots again

  • PR focus

  • Ending at, casually

  • Bioré target

  • Frequently, poetically

  • Oaty breakfast mix

  • Oscar nominee Dunne

  • Xylophone parts

  • Abounded (with)

  • Journalist Koppel

  • Water nymph

  • Salt formula

  • Nueve preceder

  • Singer Redding

  • “Love your skin” body brand

  • Woody area

  • Actress Witherspoon

  • Nutty confection

  • __ mining

  • Current units

  • Fold

  • Thin strips of land

  • Irked

  • Loses speed

  • German article

  • Gondola waterway

  • Tectonic __

  • First Greek letter

  • “Toodles”

  • Thwack

  • 2.2 lbs., roughly

  • Univ. conferrals

  • Sport sword

  • Trim, as a photo

  • Horologist’s piece

  • Wrath

  • Orbit, e.g.

  • Fútbol cheer

The LA Times Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle that is published in the Los Angeles Times newspaper and on its website. The puzzle is known for its clever clues and challenging difficulty level, and is popular among crossword enthusiasts around the world.


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