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NYT Crossword October 8 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, October 8 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Rachel Grey and John Kugelman · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1One who might use they/them pronouns, informally4 lettersSee answer ›5Sensation after getting a tattoo, for some4 lettersSee answer ›9How low can they go?5 lettersSee answer ›14Meteor shower?9 lettersSee answer ›16Stay under the covers all morning, to a Brit5 lettersSee answer ›17Taps15 lettersSee answer ›19Piano exercise5 lettersSee answer ›20"It's never paid to ___ against America": Warren Buffett3 lettersSee answer ›21Place-holding letters on a schedule3 lettersSee answer ›22Browbeaten5 lettersSee answer ›24Trams9 lettersSee answer ›27In the way of3 lettersSee answer ›28Drill4 lettersSee answer ›29Time to go fast?4 lettersSee answer ›30Audacious, informally6 lettersSee answer ›33"Midnight Cowboy" con man5 lettersSee answer ›36Paws13 lettersSee answer ›40Take a hankie to, say5 lettersSee answer ›41Nora who wrote "When Harry Met Sally …"6 lettersSee answer ›43Counterpart of Brahma and Vishnu4 lettersSee answer ›46Expand, as dough4 lettersSee answer ›48Hawaiian fish with a palindromic name3 lettersSee answer ›49Dessert9 lettersSee answer ›52Deciduous tree often found in regions dominated by conifers5 lettersSee answer ›54Just a number, they say3 lettersSee answer ›55Long-lasting birth control option, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›56Turn over5 lettersSee answer ›58Naive regal gnat15 lettersSee answer ›63Creepy5 lettersSee answer ›64It separates China and South Korea9 lettersSee answer ›65Everybody's hands5 lettersSee answer ›66Impudence4 lettersSee answer ›67Stanch4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1And so on, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›2Hero famously "red-pilled," in film3 lettersSee answer ›3Perceived Democratic electoral bloc8 lettersSee answer ›4Matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof"5 lettersSee answer ›5Like many summertime coffee orders4 lettersSee answer ›6Caped fighter6 lettersSee answer ›7Professional who's busiest in Apr.3 lettersSee answer ›8Tisanes8 lettersSee answer ›9Popeye's rival5 lettersSee answer ›10Making money or becoming famous, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›11Smolder6 lettersSee answer ›12Penalty box in hockey, slangily6 lettersSee answer ›13Unbroken6 lettersSee answer ›15Hoop alternative4 lettersSee answer ›18Neighbor of Switz.3 lettersSee answer ›22Something inside or outside a wine bar?3 lettersSee answer ›23Count of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"4 lettersSee answer ›25Unpredictable7 lettersSee answer ›26Gingham or seersucker5 lettersSee answer ›28Common policy at a neighborhood BBQ4 lettersSee answer ›31Remote sensing technology that uses lasers5 lettersSee answer ›32Eponymous Belgian resort town3 lettersSee answer ›34Cringeily cute4 lettersSee answer ›35Tiny slug?3 lettersSee answer ›37Units of electric charge8 lettersSee answer ›38Spray from a plane8 lettersSee answer ›39Sharpen4 lettersSee answer ›42Start to stick?3 lettersSee answer ›43Under a parasol, say6 lettersSee answer ›44"My feelings exactly"6 lettersSee answer ›45Host Meredith of "25 Words or Less"6 lettersSee answer ›47Cézanne painted a "Pyramid" of them6 lettersSee answer ›50"Oh no!"5 lettersSee answer ›51Clear stuff in a restaurant3 lettersSee answer ›52Prefix often meaning "gas"4 lettersSee answer ›53Flakes out?5 lettersSee answer ›57Thelma and Louise, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›59Signifier of no value, in many programming languages3 lettersSee answer ›60Grazing area3 lettersSee answer ›61First name signifier?3 lettersSee answer ›62Counterpart of a sire, on a horse farm3 lettersSee answer ›