New York Times Crossword Answers

Friday, October 9 2026 · Updated today

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Today's NYT Crossword Answers

68 CLUES

Please find below all the New York Times Crossword answers for October 9 2026. In total there are 68 clues. Select a clue to see its answer and explanation.

Across

1Mensches9 letters 10"Super Dry" brewer5 letters 15Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect9 letters 16Persona non grata5 letters 17By an even stronger argument, at law9 letters 18Stars to gaze up at5 letters 19Not mad4 letters 20Squishy projectile8 letters 22Cackling carnivores6 letters 25World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo7 letters 27Miserly sorts, informally8 letters 30Rift3 letters 31Like a certain artery8 letters 32Mango leftovers4 letters 33The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one4 letters 34Org. concerned with screenings3 letters 35Wine leftovers4 letters 36___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express"4 letters 37Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h.8 letters 39It's mine, all mine!3 letters 40NPR program since 19878 letters 41Two aces, say7 letters 43Kind of roll6 letters 47Comfortable8 letters 50"Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot4 letters 51Record of the year?5 letters 52Drawing on another's life9 letters 55Handle5 letters 56Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga9 letters 57Hidden element of FedEx's logo5 letters 58Extremely difficult and ultimately futile9 letters

Down

1Hit the hay hard5 letters 2Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories5 letters 3Not having company5 letters 4What Odysseus' crew waxed on about?9 letters 5Mahjong grouping3 letters 6Org. concerned with screenings3 letters 7"Really?!"4 letters 8Zero out, in a way4 letters 9Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes10 letters 10Accounts for checking?6 letters 11Compact, maybe5 letters 12"My mistake"9 letters 13Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II8 letters 14Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 20253 letters 21Glenn who co-founded the Eagles4 letters 23A lot of lot4 letters 24Broadway show inits.3 letters 26Psy-___3 letters 28Near failure, colloquially10 letters 29Fertile place5 letters 31Swiss Army knife component9 letters 32Aid for someone studying a culture9 letters 33One who regularly takes a best friend out?8 letters 35Princess who says "Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board"4 letters 36Like some noodles and martinis3 letters 37Habeas corpus, e.g.4 letters 38Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards3 letters 40Dormant6 letters 42Student of Socrates5 letters 44"Gymnopédies" composer5 letters 45Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying"5 letters 46Scouting trip5 letters 48Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache4 letters 49Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings"4 letters 51___ team3 letters 53Gymnast Raisman3 letters 54Enervate3 letters

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