New York Times Crossword Answers

Friday, October 16 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 16 2026. In total there are 68 clues. Select a clue to see its answer and explanation.

Across

1Word with strip or skirt5 letters 6Conniption3 letters 9Cuban poet/philosopher José5 letters 142000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me"15 letters 17Mail-centric fiction?15 letters 18Virginia is in it, in brief3 letters 19"Hah!"7 letters 20"___ had it!"3 letters 21Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met4 letters 23"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff5 letters 24Riot4 letters 25Spiller of tea5 letters 27Smelling things?5 letters 28Date night viewing, often13 letters 34High concept?9 letters 35They explain what's in the cards13 letters 39Comic strip sound of impact5 letters 40Infant discomfort5 letters 42Battery-powered string instrument player4 letters 43Predicated5 letters 48It has its highs and lows4 letters 49Rocky openings?3 letters 50Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals7 letters 52It may begin with a +1: Abbr.3 letters 53Idolizes15 letters 56Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g.15 letters 57Losing causes?5 letters 58Yoga ___3 letters 59The 22nd Amendment limits them5 letters

Down

1"Piece of cake!"6 letters 2Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table7 letters 3Not gendered7 letters 4Dope3 letters 5Some emergency resources4 letters 6Serious dirt5 letters 7State whose official fruit is the huckleberry5 letters 8Done to death5 letters 9Flow down the neck4 letters 10Past word3 letters 11Hot pockets?7 letters 1220-20, e.g.7 letters 13Small sounds6 letters 15One of 412 in the White House4 letters 16Supermodel Banks4 letters 22Took back one's words7 letters 24One struggling to make ends meet7 letters 26Grant5 letters 27Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games5 letters 29Procured3 letters 30"___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book)3 letters 31Complimentary lines3 letters 32Tool for tracing family trees3 letters 33Prefix with the name of any month3 letters 35Mideast salad, in one spelling7 letters 36Simon the Zealot, e.g.7 letters 37Sparkly bits in a school art project7 letters 38Like some deliveries7 letters 39Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 06 letters 41Stage-left orchestra section6 letters 43Coccyx or phalange, e.g.4 letters 44Unwelcome sound during a dream5 letters 45Brown tint5 letters 46Construct5 letters 47Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto4 letters 50May honorees4 letters 51Outdoor item with flaps4 letters 54Took a load off3 letters 552011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator3 letters

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