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NYT Crossword October 5 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Monday, October 5 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Write on stone, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›5Request at the bottom of an invitation4 lettersSee answer ›9Follower of Jah, informally5 lettersSee answer ›14"Me neither"4 lettersSee answer ›15Great Plains tribe4 lettersSee answer ›16Set of moral principles5 lettersSee answer ›17Famous ___ cookies4 lettersSee answer ›18Downfall in pinball4 lettersSee answer ›19Course for future therapists, for short5 lettersSee answer ›20Spot to work out knotted muscles12 lettersSee answer ›23U.F.O. occupants, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›24Yank3 lettersSee answer ›25Reach quickly, as a conclusion6 lettersSee answer ›29Internet meme feline6 lettersSee answer ›31"___ your mouth!"4 lettersSee answer ›33Stadium cheer3 lettersSee answer ›34Holiday at the end of Ramadan, informally3 lettersSee answer ›35Memphis barbecue staple9 lettersSee answer ›37Military rank above cpl.3 lettersSee answer ›38Tusked animals5 lettersSee answer ›39Squiggle shape3 lettersSee answer ›40Key to Aladdin's success9 lettersSee answer ›42___ Paulo, Brazil3 lettersSee answer ›43Before, poetically3 lettersSee answer ›44Acorn growers4 lettersSee answer ›45Dress seen at Oktoberfest6 lettersSee answer ›48Black ___ (some spiders)6 lettersSee answer ›50Mental cloud3 lettersSee answer ›51Drag performer's accessory3 lettersSee answer ›52"Ah, that's where things get difficult" … or what can be said about 20-, 35- and 40-Across?12 lettersSee answer ›56Singer Baker5 lettersSee answer ›59When Fantine sings "I Dreamed a Dream" in "Les Misérables"4 lettersSee answer ›60Block toy with its own chain of theme parks4 lettersSee answer ›61Bathroom door sign5 lettersSee answer ›62Occasion for a teen to rent a tux4 lettersSee answer ›63Spot for a wolf pack4 lettersSee answer ›64Weapon in a scabbard5 lettersSee answer ›65Manager of an apt. bldg.4 lettersSee answer ›66Squeaks (by)4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Tooth covering6 lettersSee answer ›2Fruit, botanically, that's treated as a vegetable6 lettersSee answer ›3One way to sit while meditating11 lettersSee answer ›4Snake's warning4 lettersSee answer ›5Cheap hooch6 lettersSee answer ›6___ Larsson, author of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"5 lettersSee answer ›7Bygone electric Chevy4 lettersSee answer ›8Org. that advocates for "cruelty-free" products4 lettersSee answer ›9Filled to the gills7 lettersSee answer ›10Completely lost5 lettersSee answer ›11Not likely to make the first move, say3 lettersSee answer ›12Unconscious mannerism3 lettersSee answer ›13German outburst3 lettersSee answer ›21Slightly4 lettersSee answer ›22Things you might see when you're not wearing glasses5 lettersSee answer ›26Escape from jail11 lettersSee answer ›27Clickables at the top of a computer screen4 lettersSee answer ›28Exclamations of surprise3 lettersSee answer ›30Commercial lead-in to card4 lettersSee answer ›31Inundates with junk mail5 lettersSee answer ›32Musical instrument in the Guinness logo4 lettersSee answer ›35Luxuriate in a bathtub4 lettersSee answer ›36"___ Window"4 lettersSee answer ›37South Asian dress4 lettersSee answer ›38Nonchalant5 lettersSee answer ›40Kitten's call3 lettersSee answer ›41Ranch worker7 lettersSee answer ›42[Oh, well]4 lettersSee answer ›45Serve a jail sentence6 lettersSee answer ›46Dance craze of the 2010s6 lettersSee answer ›47Hercules had 12 of these6 lettersSee answer ›49Playful aquatic animal5 lettersSee answer ›50Camera lens setting5 lettersSee answer ›53Emulates Big Boi and Lil' Kim4 lettersSee answer ›54Light beige4 lettersSee answer ›55Woods of "Legally Blonde"4 lettersSee answer ›56Reactions to something adorable3 lettersSee answer ›57"Immediately!"3 lettersSee answer ›58"If you ask me …," to a texter3 lettersSee answer ›