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136 CLUES

Please find below all the New York Times Crossword answers for November 1 2026. In total there are 136 clues. Select a clue to see its answer and explanation.

Across

1This puzzle's subject6 letters 7One of the Three Musketeers5 letters 12Repeated words in the chorus of "Sweet Child o' Mine"3 letters 15Sidewalk adjoiner4 letters 19Alternative to Parmesan6 letters 20Bar order5 letters 21Piece of pet furniture8 letters 23Member of the largest contiguous empire in history6 letters 24What might be pulled when pulling one's leg, informally5 letters 25Heat, as peanuts8 letters 26Roald Dahl title character who subsists on "snozzcumbers," with "the"3 letters 27How one might feel after a big meal6 letters 29Like a juicy fruit5 letters 30Appetizers, entree or dessert14 letters 36Lead-in to coin4 letters 39Lacking excess4 letters 40Streaming channel?6 letters 41___ Vista, Calif.4 letters 42Handed out new hands7 letters 45Dude5 letters 46Not as straight, as hair6 letters 48Son of Seth4 letters 49Only cardinal direction not found in a U.S. state name4 letters 52Hungers9 letters 54Composer Zimmer4 letters 55Herbal sugar substitute6 letters 58Titular fictional heroine from the Alps5 letters 59Payment inits. found in "debt-free"3 letters 60Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir, in myth4 letters 61Modern moviemaking tech3 letters 63Burton who hosted PBS's "Reading Rainbow"5 letters 66Court defense5 letters 69Slingshot ammo9 letters 71Rome's ___ Fountain5 letters 72Kidney-related5 letters 73Greek goddess whose chariot is pulled by Firebright and Daybright3 letters 74County north of San Francisco4 letters 75Wyo. neighbor3 letters 76Most overdone7 letters 78"So cute!!"6 letters 81Seconds, say4 letters 82It's not a big dill7 letters 84Leak out4 letters 85Teensy4 letters 86Eagle nests6 letters 87Venomous snake5 letters 92Feline with distinctive blue eyes7 letters 94Like a 1958 doubled die penny4 letters 95Steady, low sounds6 letters 97Caesar's years4 letters 98Opposite of sharpen4 letters 99Out of sight14 letters 103Versace's parent company5 letters 105Soccer star Messi6 letters 106Opposite of menos, in Spanish3 letters 109Sheer bunk8 letters 112Skillful5 letters 113Beethoven work originally titled "Bonaparte"6 letters 116Vague response to "When?"8 letters 117No fan of company5 letters 118In an unpleasant way6 letters 119Complaint4 letters 120Number of legs on a butterfly3 letters 121Impatient5 letters 122Its famous holes are formed by propionibacteria11 letters

Down

1Sweet and gentle sort4 letters 2Starting from4 letters 3Play using all seven tiles in Scrabble5 letters 4It's used over the counter3 letters 5Before3 letters 6Spun yarns9 letters 7Improvised5 letters 8Casts a wide net?6 letters 9Male pronoun7 letters 10"When I say 'go' ..."7 letters 11"The Brain — is wider than the ___": Dickinson3 letters 12Condition that may be treated with C.B.T.3 letters 13Angelic instruments5 letters 14Taylor Swift hit with the lyric "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye"5 letters 15Unit in the game Clue11 letters 16"Well, the good thing is ..."15 letters 17They might be targeted3 letters 18Symbol for a stop on a subway map3 letters 22Wine label word3 letters 28Go off on6 letters 31"___ your heart!"5 letters 32Mariners' domain3 letters 33Source of wealth for John D. Rockefeller3 letters 34Alma mater of Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe, in brief4 letters 35Collect, as rewards4 letters 37Exuberance4 letters 38Locales of tiny drums4 letters 42Try again6 letters 43Give permission to6 letters 44"I'm still talking!"15 letters 46Like the hours before dawn3 letters 47Slanted5 letters 50Short arguments6 letters 51Kelly Ripa or Jimmy Kimmel6 letters 53Pride of Punxsutawney4 letters 56Ammonium or sulfate3 letters 57Spot for sports5 letters 61Pitch raisers for guitarists5 letters 62Menacing look5 letters 64Staves off6 letters 65Sirloin alternative6 letters 67Many a shipwreck site11 letters 68"Looks good to me," tersely5 letters 69Observed4 letters 70Bundle3 letters 77"___ the season …"3 letters 79Parting words to a driver leaving in a storm6 letters 80Like jellyfish … but not books about jellyfish?9 letters 81Ape5 letters 82Duds4 letters 83Recover from injury4 letters 87Cable channel that awards V.M.A.s3 letters 88Common poke ingredient3 letters 89"___ Doubtfire"3 letters 90Take further than one's predecessors7 letters 91Peaceful kind of music7 letters 93___ Arbor3 letters 96Calculus calculations6 letters 99Golden Globe winner Elba5 letters 100Grand Slam tournament winner Osaka5 letters 101What a ticket gets you5 letters 102Islamic rulers5 letters 104"Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": George Bernard Shaw3 letters 107Oft-torn body parts, in brief4 letters 108"Smile!"9 letters 109Computer cable type3 letters 110Low digit3 letters 111Cowboy nickname3 letters 112Carte preceder3 letters 114Quarrel3 letters 115Opposite of non3 letters

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