New York Times Crossword Answers

Thursday, October 8 2026 · Updated today

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Today's NYT Crossword Answers

74 CLUES

Please find below all the New York Times Crossword answers for October 8 2026. In total there are 74 clues. Select a clue to see its answer and explanation.

Across

1One who might use they/them pronouns, informally4 letters 5Sensation after getting a tattoo, for some4 letters 9How low can they go?5 letters 14Meteor shower?9 letters 16Stay under the covers all morning, to a Brit5 letters 17Taps15 letters 19Piano exercise5 letters 20"It's never paid to ___ against America": Warren Buffett3 letters 21Place-holding letters on a schedule3 letters 22Browbeaten5 letters 24Trams9 letters 27In the way of3 letters 28Drill4 letters 29Time to go fast?4 letters 30Audacious, informally6 letters 33"Midnight Cowboy" con man5 letters 36Paws13 letters 40Take a hankie to, say5 letters 41Nora who wrote "When Harry Met Sally …"6 letters 43Counterpart of Brahma and Vishnu4 letters 46Expand, as dough4 letters 48Hawaiian fish with a palindromic name3 letters 49Dessert9 letters 52Deciduous tree often found in regions dominated by conifers5 letters 54Just a number, they say3 letters 55Long-lasting birth control option, in brief3 letters 56Turn over5 letters 58Naive regal gnat15 letters 63Creepy5 letters 64It separates China and South Korea9 letters 65Everybody's hands5 letters 66Impudence4 letters 67Stanch4 letters

Down

1And so on, in brief3 letters 2Hero famously "red-pilled," in film3 letters 3Perceived Democratic electoral bloc8 letters 4Matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof"5 letters 5Like many summertime coffee orders4 letters 6Caped fighter6 letters 7Professional who's busiest in Apr.3 letters 8Tisanes8 letters 9Popeye's rival5 letters 10Making money or becoming famous, maybe3 letters 11Smolder6 letters 12Penalty box in hockey, slangily6 letters 13Unbroken6 letters 15Hoop alternative4 letters 18Neighbor of Switz.3 letters 22Something inside or outside a wine bar?3 letters 23Count of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"4 letters 25Unpredictable7 letters 26Gingham or seersucker5 letters 28Common policy at a neighborhood BBQ4 letters 31Remote sensing technology that uses lasers5 letters 32Eponymous Belgian resort town3 letters 34Cringeily cute4 letters 35Tiny slug?3 letters 37Units of electric charge8 letters 38Spray from a plane8 letters 39Sharpen4 letters 42Start to stick?3 letters 43Under a parasol, say6 letters 44"My feelings exactly"6 letters 45Host Meredith of "25 Words or Less"6 letters 47Cézanne painted a "Pyramid" of them6 letters 50"Oh no!"5 letters 51Clear stuff in a restaurant3 letters 52Prefix often meaning "gas"4 letters 53Flakes out?5 letters 57Thelma and Louise, e.g.4 letters 59Signifier of no value, in many programming languages3 letters 60Grazing area3 letters 61First name signifier?3 letters 62Counterpart of a sire, on a horse farm3 letters

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