LA Times Crossword July 4, 2026 Answers

Across

Scratch pads?8 Coastal region along the Santa Lucia Mountains6 Backspin producer?8 Coffee drink made with a frother6 Coldplay hit co-produced by Avicii15 Low digit?3 Brand whose logo adorns Argentine soccer jerseys6 Lake just south of London4 Market openings, briefly4 Heroic poetry4 Fig. in a background check3 Like Pluto, once5 Hook's boatswain4 Germ4 Series opener7 School zone sign4 For the first time5 No-nonsense5 Socket set4 Platform for content creators7 Bracelet component4 Towering4 Not perfectly round5 NYC setting3 Football coach Pederson4 Gouda alternative4 Alexa device4 Like 56-Down6 Purple yam used in desserts3 "Seven Nation Army" band15 "Vacancy" singer Ari6 Trattoria tubes8 Apples in the trash, e.g.6 Fourth of July treats8

Down

Packing7 Using coded language8 1980s hit whose video drew a lot of attention?8 Tax3 Rival of The Djoker and Fed Express4 Ooze5 Shape with minor and major axes7 Hardly ever6 Ride-or-dies, for short4 Org. whose first commissioner was former treasury secretary George S. Boutwell3 Flight board info4 Few and far between6 Revolt6 Email again6 Palm springs?5 Worried6 "__ guacamole!"4 Queen who appears at Epcot's Royal Sommerhus4 Sharp turn6 Russian refusal4 2022 title role for Tom Hanks4 Learn by the book?8 Latin attention-getter8 Anwar who wrote "Revolt on the Nile"5 Connects7 Itchy, to Scratchy7 Grown-up grub6 Refrain from6 Zeus's brain child?6 Solitary sorts6 Onset5 __ up to4 Prix __4 "Hotel Transylvania" protagonist4 Mild alternative3 Olympian Midori3