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NYT Crossword October 27 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, October 27 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Jeff Chen and Bharati Hemmady · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Alphabetically first month5 lettersSee answer ›6Affliction in "The Hurt Locker," in brief4 lettersSee answer ›10"That so?"4 lettersSee answer ›14Large safari sight5 lettersSee answer ›15Island with Waikiki Beach4 lettersSee answer ›16A goose egg4 lettersSee answer ›17Staged fighting10 lettersSee answer ›19Confirm with confidence4 lettersSee answer ›20Beat, as cream4 lettersSee answer ›21"I'll pay"7 lettersSee answer ›23Tennis great Huber4 lettersSee answer ›26Part of Lincoln's cabin3 lettersSee answer ›28Convenient excuses4 lettersSee answer ›29Extinct cousin of an elephant13 lettersSee answer ›33Garlicky dip5 lettersSee answer ›34Homer Simpson's watering hole4 lettersSee answer ›35Angsty music genre3 lettersSee answer ›38Repulsed cry3 lettersSee answer ›39Longtime N.F.L. all-star game7 lettersSee answer ›42J.F.K. or Obama, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›43Cupful for a cold3 lettersSee answer ›44Sitar maestro Shankar4 lettersSee answer ›45Catherine of "The Last of Us"5 lettersSee answer ›47Unethical marketing tactic13 lettersSee answer ›51Olivia of "The Newsroom"4 lettersSee answer ›52Feedbox bit3 lettersSee answer ›53"Star Wars" twin sister4 lettersSee answer ›54Deviate from the herd7 lettersSee answer ›57What someone behind bars may need4 lettersSee answer ›59Greiner of "Shark Tank"4 lettersSee answer ›60Like an untrustworthy business ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 29-, 39- and 47-Across10 lettersSee answer ›65Pep4 lettersSee answer ›66Instrument to which an orchestra tunes4 lettersSee answer ›67Biology class?5 lettersSee answer ›68Which way the Great Sphinx of Giza faces4 lettersSee answer ›69It trickles down an hourglass4 lettersSee answer ›70Island off the coast of Venezuela5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1One of the four in "all fours"3 lettersSee answer ›2Vietnamese soup3 lettersSee answer ›3Rocker Ocasek of the Cars3 lettersSee answer ›4Bygone writing accessory7 lettersSee answer ›5Nessie's body of water4 lettersSee answer ›6Cheerleader's accessory6 lettersSee answer ›7Can opener3 lettersSee answer ›8False front4 lettersSee answer ›9Responsibility4 lettersSee answer ›10Stagnant6 lettersSee answer ›11Words said with reservation?11 lettersSee answer ›12Brainchilds5 lettersSee answer ›13Small pie4 lettersSee answer ›18Overly smooth4 lettersSee answer ›22It might follow "Up top" and "down low" in a high-five trick7 lettersSee answer ›23Stand by for5 lettersSee answer ›24Neat, at a bar5 lettersSee answer ›25"Laughing" birds from Down Under11 lettersSee answer ›27Notorious Mafia family name7 lettersSee answer ›30Bit of facial jewelry7 lettersSee answer ›31Cry before being milked, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›32Cry for milk, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›36"Thank you, Madame"5 lettersSee answer ›37Midwest city where Malcolm X was born5 lettersSee answer ›40Snitch (on)3 lettersSee answer ›41I.V.F. extractions3 lettersSee answer ›46Tougher, in a way, as a bike course7 lettersSee answer ›48Officially designate6 lettersSee answer ›49Applied gently6 lettersSee answer ›50"Don't go!"4 lettersSee answer ›51Cold, hard cash5 lettersSee answer ›54Great delight4 lettersSee answer ›55Crafts seen around the world?4 lettersSee answer ›56Idris of "A House of Dynamite"4 lettersSee answer ›58"Young Frankenstein" woman4 lettersSee answer ›61Over there, to a poet3 lettersSee answer ›62White-bearded animal in the Serengeti3 lettersSee answer ›63Center of operations3 lettersSee answer ›64They wave their wands so you can fly, for short3 lettersSee answer ›