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NYT Crossword October 9 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Friday, October 9 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

1Mensches9 lettersSee answer ›10"Super Dry" brewer5 lettersSee answer ›15Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect9 lettersSee answer ›16Persona non grata5 lettersSee answer ›17By an even stronger argument, at law9 lettersSee answer ›18Stars to gaze up at5 lettersSee answer ›19Not mad4 lettersSee answer ›20Squishy projectile8 lettersSee answer ›22Cackling carnivores6 lettersSee answer ›25World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo7 lettersSee answer ›27Miserly sorts, informally8 lettersSee answer ›30Rift3 lettersSee answer ›31Like a certain artery8 lettersSee answer ›32Mango leftovers4 lettersSee answer ›33The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one4 lettersSee answer ›34Org. concerned with screenings3 lettersSee answer ›35Wine leftovers4 lettersSee answer ›36___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express"4 lettersSee answer ›37Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h.8 lettersSee answer ›39It's mine, all mine!3 lettersSee answer ›40NPR program since 19878 lettersSee answer ›41Two aces, say7 lettersSee answer ›43Kind of roll6 lettersSee answer ›47Comfortable8 lettersSee answer ›50"Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot4 lettersSee answer ›51Record of the year?5 lettersSee answer ›52Drawing on another's life9 lettersSee answer ›55Handle5 lettersSee answer ›56Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga9 lettersSee answer ›57Hidden element of FedEx's logo5 lettersSee answer ›58Extremely difficult and ultimately futile9 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Hit the hay hard5 lettersSee answer ›2Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories5 lettersSee answer ›3Not having company5 lettersSee answer ›4What Odysseus' crew waxed on about?9 lettersSee answer ›5Mahjong grouping3 lettersSee answer ›6Org. concerned with screenings3 lettersSee answer ›7"Really?!"4 lettersSee answer ›8Zero out, in a way4 lettersSee answer ›9Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes10 lettersSee answer ›10Accounts for checking?6 lettersSee answer ›11Compact, maybe5 lettersSee answer ›12"My mistake"9 lettersSee answer ›13Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II8 lettersSee answer ›14Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 20253 lettersSee answer ›21Glenn who co-founded the Eagles4 lettersSee answer ›23A lot of lot4 lettersSee answer ›24Broadway show inits.3 lettersSee answer ›26Psy-___3 lettersSee answer ›28Near failure, colloquially10 lettersSee answer ›29Fertile place5 lettersSee answer ›31Swiss Army knife component9 lettersSee answer ›32Aid for someone studying a culture9 lettersSee answer ›33One who regularly takes a best friend out?8 lettersSee answer ›35Princess who says "Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board"4 lettersSee answer ›36Like some noodles and martinis3 lettersSee answer ›37Habeas corpus, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›38Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards3 lettersSee answer ›40Dormant6 lettersSee answer ›42Student of Socrates5 lettersSee answer ›44"Gymnopédies" composer5 lettersSee answer ›45Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying"5 lettersSee answer ›46Scouting trip5 lettersSee answer ›48Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache4 lettersSee answer ›49Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings"4 lettersSee answer ›51___ team3 lettersSee answer ›53Gymnast Raisman3 lettersSee answer ›54Enervate3 lettersSee answer ›