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NYT Crossword October 2 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, October 2 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

1Important figure on staff?4 lettersSee answer ›5Photographer's inits.3 lettersSee answer ›8"For real"5 lettersSee answer ›13Funky-smelling4 lettersSee answer ›14Sugar substitute?10 lettersSee answer ›16Within4 lettersSee answer ›17Core-focused workout in a humid room10 lettersSee answer ›18Unit of sound intensity3 lettersSee answer ›19Like Mitt Romney and Ken Jennings6 lettersSee answer ›20Lead-in to "coin" for a major cryptocurrency4 lettersSee answer ›21"Whew!"8 lettersSee answer ›23Whose fault your mistake might be6 lettersSee answer ›25Hybrid cat5 lettersSee answer ›26Member of a noble family5 lettersSee answer ›28Request after eating a habanero, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›29What comes from needing little, per Epictetus6 lettersSee answer ›31Small dosage amts.3 lettersSee answer ›34Question posed at the end of a successful job interview15 lettersSee answer ›37Waze ways: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›38Spends a long time in front of the mirror, maybe6 lettersSee answer ›39Inkling4 lettersSee answer ›40Word with cane or corn5 lettersSee answer ›41Villainous expression5 lettersSee answer ›42Home to the Basilica of St. Clare6 lettersSee answer ›45Highly controlling?8 lettersSee answer ›48Like a golf course, regularly4 lettersSee answer ›49Snap, crackle and pop6 lettersSee answer ›51___ Cup, tournament established in the 2020s3 lettersSee answer ›52"Never been better!"10 lettersSee answer ›54Site of a 1956 international conflict4 lettersSee answer ›55Animal chased by Toto in "The Wizard of Oz"10 lettersSee answer ›56Key in a chain4 lettersSee answer ›57Figure with three faces, in Dante5 lettersSee answer ›58Brief bit3 lettersSee answer ›59They're stretched out before some workouts4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Hard-shelled delicacies9 lettersSee answer ›2Public eye9 lettersSee answer ›3Written posts?9 lettersSee answer ›4Stoked3 lettersSee answer ›5Like some enemies5 lettersSee answer ›6"I need to get a word in!"15 lettersSee answer ›7Possible result of a default4 lettersSee answer ›8Before3 lettersSee answer ›9Not stop at the end of a chapter, say6 lettersSee answer ›10Suffragist Harriet Taylor ___5 lettersSee answer ›11One doing the lord's work?5 lettersSee answer ›12Words of affirmation5 lettersSee answer ›14"Skedaddle!"4 lettersSee answer ›15Condition that can be caused by excess earwax8 lettersSee answer ›19Debussy's "La ___"3 lettersSee answer ›22Jay ___, singer of the 2009 #1 hit "Down"4 lettersSee answer ›24Sounds from fans4 lettersSee answer ›27Clip follower4 lettersSee answer ›29Some weather service messages8 lettersSee answer ›30"Wheat Capital" of Oklahoma4 lettersSee answer ›31Label on some domestic products9 lettersSee answer ›32Eco-friendly area around a city9 lettersSee answer ›33Stares into space9 lettersSee answer ›35Ones doing balancing acts?4 lettersSee answer ›36Windows feature?4 lettersSee answer ›40Pictures6 lettersSee answer ›41Message that might be signaled with smoke3 lettersSee answer ›42Off5 lettersSee answer ›43European capital with layers of Thracian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman history5 lettersSee answer ›44Beads for an athlete5 lettersSee answer ›46Director Lee ___ Chung5 lettersSee answer ›47Neighbor of an Estonian, historically4 lettersSee answer ›50They're sometimes picked for their rarity4 lettersSee answer ›53Wiseman who directed "Ballerina" and "Live Free or Die Hard"3 lettersSee answer ›54___City3 lettersSee answer ›