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NYT Crossword October 16 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, October 16 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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

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