Daily Themed Crossword October 3 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the Daily Themed Crossword published on October 3 2026.

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Clues Across (32 total)

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Historical period
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Mississippi ___ pie (chocolate-based dessert)
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It's smaller than a city
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Pen ___ (long-distance friend)
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Suspicious and on guard (rhymes with "fairy")
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"___-hoo!" (rhyming cry of delight)
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Sue Grafton's "___ for Innocent": 2 wds.
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Teenager's skin trouble
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Flapjack breakfast chain: Abbr.
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(1/7) *Triiing* You reach to snooze your phone alarm, but instead there's an alarm ___ rattling you awake. Something's wrong.
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Nitrous ___ (laughing gas)
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Animal that goes "pop!" in a nursery rhyme
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Coleslaw condiment, for short
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(2/7) This isn't your room. Panic sets in. You need the date, but there is no phone in sight. You spot a ___ on the wall and gasp: it's 1985!
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"Are you vegan ___ meat-eater?": 2 wds.
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"___ be okay" ("Don't worry")
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"I shouldn't have done that!" exclamation
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(3/7) You run into the hallway, desperate to find where you are. Rummaging in drawers, you find a crumpled paper ___. You're in New Jersey!
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"___ man walks into the bar ...": 2 wds.
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Chooses, with "for"
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(4/7) Hands shaking, you hunt for a phone. Finally, you find one, but it's a rotary ___, heavy and fixed to the wall with a spiral cord.
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Supermodel ___ Carangi
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"It's of no ___!" ("This is pointless!")
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Justin Timberlake's boy band
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Reply to a question, for short
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Stack of cash
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(5/7) You hear a ___ drifting from another room. Expecting a speaker, you find a dusty, old record player, its tune hauntingly familiar.
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Prefix with "puncture"
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Inflated sense of self
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"Peek-___!" (game with a toddler): Hyph.
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"___ Loves You," hit single by The Beatles
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Arrow's partner
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Clues Down (34 total)

(1)
Heroic narrative like "The Odyssey," e.g.
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Tram track part
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"One more thing ..."
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McDonald's Big ___ (burger)
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Vessel used to hold ashes
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Colorant that can turn your hair purple
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Caramel-coated Mars bar
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"___! I wasn't expecting you!": 2 wds.
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(6/7) You shiver, instinctively searching for a thermostat. Instead, you find an empty fireplace with a pile of ___ and a box of matches.
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"Yep" counterpart
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(7/7) You hear a faint ringing. You chase it from room to room, until ... you ___ up to your phone blaring by your bed, back to the present!
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U.S. Navy rank (anagram of "cow"): Abbr.
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The Grand ___ Opry
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"Lawyers ___ behalf of their clients": 2 wds.
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Something that might be tossed and dressed
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Right-angled tetris shape
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Mother, affectionately
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Palindromic constellation name
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Talk non-stop (rhymes with "tap")
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"In space, ___ can hear you scream" (advertising tagline for "Alien"): 2 wds.
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Pretty cool, slangily (rhymes with "rope")
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Like a befitting reply
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Blog feed format: Abbr.
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Newton who discovered gravity
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Local dialect or jargon
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Midday meal where you might have a 22d
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Comic book series installment
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Women's health specialist, informally
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U.S. surveillance group: Abbr.
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Kind of story
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Small-size batteries
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Fly catcher
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In the bygone days
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___ Jones & Company (publishing firm)
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