LA Times Crossword

March 30, 2026

Michael B. Berg and Brian Callahan

 

The answers to the first four clues below have something in common that is phonetically hinted at by the fifth clue. Can you determine what it is?

 

1. Adrift after a storm, perhaps

2. To be in debt to - in two words

3. Three-word stir fry vegetable

4. Two words for, "Let me explain ....."

5. Protection of intellectual property 

 

Answer to Clue 5:

COPYWRIGHT

 

Answers to Clues 1-4:

 

1. At sea

2. To owe

3. Sugar snap pea

4. "Here's why ....."  

 

The four words to the right in the answers phonetically spell out COPY:

1. sea - C

2. owe - O

3. pea - P

4. why - Y