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NYT Crossword October 23 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated October 23 2026

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Every answer from the Friday, October 23 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Have serious plans8 lettersSee answer ›9One of the fam5 lettersSee answer ›14Annual appraisal statement9 lettersSee answer ›15Positioned to win5 lettersSee answer ›16Track event won by the fastest four legs9 lettersSee answer ›17Marvel Comics villain with an explosive superpower5 lettersSee answer ›18American court org.4 lettersSee answer ›19Ensemble piece9 lettersSee answer ›21Some sous-chef scraps5 lettersSee answer ›23Three-time Olympic figure skating champion5 lettersSee answer ›24A.M. cupfuls3 lettersSee answer ›26Band at a Jimmy Buffett concert?3 lettersSee answer ›28"America's Largest Classroom"3 lettersSee answer ›29Cinch4 lettersSee answer ›30With whom one pools pounds for quarters8 lettersSee answer ›33Copy5 lettersSee answer ›34Count to 10, perhaps7 lettersSee answer ›35Opposite of proud7 lettersSee answer ›37Get past a paywall, say5 lettersSee answer ›38Boundaries between areas with different amounts of coverage8 lettersSee answer ›40Healing agent4 lettersSee answer ›41Hardly worth mentioning3 lettersSee answer ›42Counterpoint segue3 lettersSee answer ›43One who's left at the polls, informally?3 lettersSee answer ›44Bobby ___, first recipient of the Best New Artist Grammy Award (1960)5 lettersSee answer ›46Plague that precedes lice in Exodus5 lettersSee answer ›50"Let go of unrealistic expectations," e.g.9 lettersSee answer ›53Fabled example of poor competition strategy4 lettersSee answer ›54Actress Amanda of "Easy A"5 lettersSee answer ›55Penalty for exceeding a payroll threshold, in sports lingo9 lettersSee answer ›57Cartoonish bouncing sound5 lettersSee answer ›58"Hang on a sec"9 lettersSee answer ›59They can help one get a leg up, informally5 lettersSee answer ›60What all the buzz is about?8 lettersSee answer ›

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1___ days (times past)5 lettersSee answer ›2Emma ___, protagonist of "A Woman of Substance"5 lettersSee answer ›3"Don't believe one word of that!"10 lettersSee answer ›4"I'm afraid not, laddie"3 lettersSee answer ›5Actress Sedgwick4 lettersSee answer ›6Word with comb or towel5 lettersSee answer ›7"Your offer is too good to refuse"7 lettersSee answer ›8Minestrone morsel9 lettersSee answer ›9Dwelling for clergy5 lettersSee answer ›10"The most beautiful river on earth," per Thomas Jefferson4 lettersSee answer ›11One may sit near a bench marking time9 lettersSee answer ›12Strap-and-buckle shoes named for a comic strip character who wore them9 lettersSee answer ›13Bother3 lettersSee answer ›14Beat but good4 lettersSee answer ›20Daughter of one's 9-Across3 lettersSee answer ›22Firmly committed to5 lettersSee answer ›25Beat a map app's arrival time estimate, say4 lettersSee answer ›27Global fiscal policy org.3 lettersSee answer ›29Poetic device with inexact sound-alikes10 lettersSee answer ›30"Ha! Betcha didn't see that coming!"9 lettersSee answer ›31Abnormal talkativeness9 lettersSee answer ›32Lingering aura of success9 lettersSee answer ›33Most important5 lettersSee answer ›34"Thou art fairer than the evening air ___ in the beauty of a thousand stars": Marlowe4 lettersSee answer ›36Said with a wink, say3 lettersSee answer ›39Reddish fish sometimes served tartare7 lettersSee answer ›41"Dang!"3 lettersSee answer ›44Pieces in the game Othello5 lettersSee answer ›45Scraps5 lettersSee answer ›47Writer of the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"5 lettersSee answer ›48Funds for research5 lettersSee answer ›49Cellphone hot line?4 lettersSee answer ›51Care for4 lettersSee answer ›52Remedy for deflation4 lettersSee answer ›54Kind of joint associated with smoking, informally3 lettersSee answer ›56Pulitzer-winning biographer Chernow3 lettersSee answer ›