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NYT Crossword October 12 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated October 12 2026

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Every answer from the Monday, October 12 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1"Let's not forget ..."4 lettersSee answer ›5Singer/actress Bareilles4 lettersSee answer ›9First part of a musical4 lettersSee answer ›13Close by4 lettersSee answer ›14Post-bath wrap5 lettersSee answer ›15Vegetable on a cob4 lettersSee answer ›16Electric vehicle from Japan10 lettersSee answer ›18God with a bow and arrow4 lettersSee answer ›19Brief5 lettersSee answer ›20Investment option for old age, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›22Mail carrier's assignment: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›23Signaling, as a performer5 lettersSee answer ›24Total mess9 lettersSee answer ›27Contents of a sleeve3 lettersSee answer ›28Birthstones for some Libras5 lettersSee answer ›30Quick kiss4 lettersSee answer ›31Movie princess with "space buns"4 lettersSee answer ›33Rapper ___ Kim3 lettersSee answer ›34Mercury, Venus or Mars5 lettersSee answer ›35Unpredictable emotional shift9 lettersSee answer ›38Striped kitty5 lettersSee answer ›40Main element in pewter3 lettersSee answer ›41"No ___, no foul"4 lettersSee answer ›45Olympic sword with a guarded tip4 lettersSee answer ›46Thick heads of hair5 lettersSee answer ›48Furious3 lettersSee answer ›49Celtics legend nicknamed "The Hick from French Lick"9 lettersSee answer ›51Kicks off, as a concert5 lettersSee answer ›53Singer Grande, informally3 lettersSee answer ›54Part of the Holy Trinity3 lettersSee answer ›55Tony winner Menzel5 lettersSee answer ›56___-Cola4 lettersSee answer ›58Positioned precariously … or where the ends of 16-, 24-, 35- and 49-Across can all be found10 lettersSee answer ›62Those, in Spanish4 lettersSee answer ›63Lollipop holder5 lettersSee answer ›64Great Plains tribe4 lettersSee answer ›65"Late Night" host Meyers4 lettersSee answer ›66___ off (miffed)4 lettersSee answer ›67Little kid4 lettersSee answer ›

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1"Tom Lake" novelist Patchett3 lettersSee answer ›2It isn't working7 lettersSee answer ›3Raw fish dish at a Japanese restaurant7 lettersSee answer ›4"Citizen Kane" director Welles5 lettersSee answer ›5Sun, in Spanish3 lettersSee answer ›6Astounded state3 lettersSee answer ›7Shows again, as a broadcast6 lettersSee answer ›8"Clemency" actress Woodard5 lettersSee answer ›9Card that may be hidden "up one's sleeve"3 lettersSee answer ›10"You're right!"7 lettersSee answer ›11Russian revolutionary Leon7 lettersSee answer ›12City map next to a state map, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›14Explosive block in Minecraft3 lettersSee answer ›17Mythical Greek ship4 lettersSee answer ›21Tree with "quaking" leaves5 lettersSee answer ›23Baseball great Ripken3 lettersSee answer ›24___ Marian, Robin Hood's beloved4 lettersSee answer ›25Outstanding athlete7 lettersSee answer ›26Sound from the horse's mouth5 lettersSee answer ›29Cunning tactic4 lettersSee answer ›32"Jurassic Park" insect casing5 lettersSee answer ›34Eat by candlelight, say4 lettersSee answer ›36Follows an order5 lettersSee answer ›37Sailboat propeller4 lettersSee answer ›38Hybrid flower named after a drink7 lettersSee answer ›39Kind of jam in a Sacher torte7 lettersSee answer ›42In-room safe or a chocolate on the pillow, say7 lettersSee answer ›43Went hog wild7 lettersSee answer ›44Some E.R. workers3 lettersSee answer ›46Time piece?6 lettersSee answer ›47Sweet, fizzy drink4 lettersSee answer ›49Roller skate strings5 lettersSee answer ›50Give a leg up5 lettersSee answer ›52Amelia Earhart, for one5 lettersSee answer ›55Squid's defensive output3 lettersSee answer ›57Residue on a grill3 lettersSee answer ›59Reason for overtime3 lettersSee answer ›60Anxious condition, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›61Hive occupant3 lettersSee answer ›