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NYT Crossword October 6 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, October 6 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

1What a leaky faucet has4 lettersSee answer ›5Hands, informally … or coverings for hands5 lettersSee answer ›10"Not another peep out of you!"4 lettersSee answer ›14Classical Persian poet4 lettersSee answer ›15Nebraska home of Creighton University5 lettersSee answer ›16Between cruise ports, say4 lettersSee answer ›17Intl. oil group4 lettersSee answer ›18Like streakers5 lettersSee answer ›19Deep blue4 lettersSee answer ›20Pale and sickly5 lettersSee answer ›22Have an "aha" moment about3 lettersSee answer ›23Urged (on)5 lettersSee answer ›24One of six, supposedly, for a seer5 lettersSee answer ›25"___ Were a Rich Man"3 lettersSee answer ›26Rear of a boat5 lettersSee answer ›27Lifeless9 lettersSee answer ›30Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history"4 lettersSee answer ›33Video game section5 lettersSee answer ›34Pen points4 lettersSee answer ›38Number on a dating profile3 lettersSee answer ›39Gallops into the sunset, say7 lettersSee answer ›41"I've seen better"3 lettersSee answer ›42Attend without a date6 lettersSee answer ›44Sound in polka music6 lettersSee answer ›46Strategic disk game played on a vertical board11 lettersSee answer ›50Music genre for James Brown4 lettersSee answer ›51Device once used with a Blockbuster rental3 lettersSee answer ›52Mission-driven grps., often4 lettersSee answer ›54"___ you listening?"3 lettersSee answer ›55Who said "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"5 lettersSee answer ›57May honoree3 lettersSee answer ›59Animal with a "mask"7 lettersSee answer ›62A step above amateur7 lettersSee answer ›65Peeved7 lettersSee answer ›66Like italic type7 lettersSee answer ›67With 68-Across, posable plaything ... or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46-Across6 lettersSee answer ›68See 67-Across6 lettersSee answer ›

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1Is released, as an album5 lettersSee answer ›2Currency in Mumbai5 lettersSee answer ›3Clarifying phrase5 lettersSee answer ›4Interception returned for a touchdown7 lettersSee answer ›5Start of the workweek: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›6Saw in one's mind's eye8 lettersSee answer ›7Break for a few minutes8 lettersSee answer ›8Newspaper in New York, L.A. or Seattle, colloquially8 lettersSee answer ›9Bummed out3 lettersSee answer ›10Surf with one's toes off the front of the board7 lettersSee answer ›11What an electric meter measures5 lettersSee answer ›12Cut completely5 lettersSee answer ›13Joseph called "Father of the Symphony"5 lettersSee answer ›21Coin dated with the year of its country's imperial era3 lettersSee answer ›23Latin "is"3 lettersSee answer ›28Put in a row5 lettersSee answer ›29Unapproachable5 lettersSee answer ›30Newsstand purchase, informally3 lettersSee answer ›31In the past3 lettersSee answer ›32Feline adoption option9 lettersSee answer ›35Spur-of-the-moment9 lettersSee answer ›36Arthur of "The Golden Girls"3 lettersSee answer ›37"Zip it!"3 lettersSee answer ›39Place in a hierarchy4 lettersSee answer ›40Midnight's opposite4 lettersSee answer ›43Suffix in the names of many U.S. cities3 lettersSee answer ›45Starbucks keepsake, perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›47Hurdles or high jump, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›48Loops in, digitally3 lettersSee answer ›49Secure tightly5 lettersSee answer ›50Swiss currency5 lettersSee answer ›53How you may feel after a workout vis-à-vis before5 lettersSee answer ›54Operatic solo4 lettersSee answer ›55Become a member of4 lettersSee answer ›56Subject of introspection4 lettersSee answer ›58Preset camera option4 lettersSee answer ›60___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries' expectations for forensics)3 lettersSee answer ›61Yoko who participated in a bed-in3 lettersSee answer ›63___ tai3 lettersSee answer ›64Bank with a lion in its logo3 lettersSee answer ›