Ingredients for brewers and bakers

The answer to “Ingredients for brewers and bakers” in the LA Times crossword is YEASTS — a 6-letter word. It most recently appeared in the LA Times crossword on August 2, 2026, a Sunday puzzle, at 73-Down. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Ingredients for brewers and bakers” answer

YEASTS (6 letters)

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Why the answer is YEASTS

These tiny living helpers make dough rise and drinks ferment. 🍞

What does YEASTS mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of YEASTS is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

When else has “Ingredients for brewers and bakers” appeared?

LA Times reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

August 2, 2026 (most recent) → YEASTS. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

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