NYT Crossword October 9 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on October 9 2026.
- 68
- Total Clues
- 31
- Total Across
- 37
- Total Down
Clues Across (31 total)
(1)
Mensches
The answer is: classacts
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"Super Dry" brewer
The answer is: asahi
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Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect
The answer is: reliefmap
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Persona non grata
The answer is: leper
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By an even stronger argument, at law
The answer is: afortiori
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Stars to gaze up at
The answer is: idols
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Not mad
The answer is: sane
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Squishy projectile
The answer is: nerfball
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Cackling carnivores
The answer is: hyenas
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World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo
The answer is: orinoco
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Miserly sorts, informally
The answer is: scrooges
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Rift
The answer is: gap
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Like a certain artery
The answer is: coronary
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Mango leftovers
The answer is: pits
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The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one
The answer is: dane
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Org. concerned with screenings
The answer is: tsa
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Wine leftovers
The answer is: lees
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___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express"
The answer is: wong
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Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h.
The answer is: whippets
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It's mine, all mine!
The answer is: ego
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NPR program since 1987
The answer is: freshair
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Two aces, say
The answer is: toppair
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Kind of roll
The answer is: kaiser
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Comfortable
The answer is: welltodo
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"Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot
The answer is: dare
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Record of the year?
The answer is: annal
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Drawing on another's life
The answer is: parasitic
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Handle
The answer is: seeto
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Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga
The answer is: elclasico
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Hidden element of FedEx's logo
The answer is: arrow
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Extremely difficult and ultimately futile
The answer is: sisyphean
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Clues Down (37 total)
(1)
Hit the hay hard
The answer is: crash
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(2)
Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories
The answer is: lefay
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Not having company
The answer is: alone
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What Odysseus' crew waxed on about?
The answer is: sirensong
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Mahjong grouping
The answer is: set
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Org. concerned with screenings
The answer is: afi
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"Really?!"
The answer is: cmon
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Zero out, in a way
The answer is: tare
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Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes
The answer is: spirograph
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Accounts for checking?
The answer is: alibis
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Compact, maybe
The answer is: sedan
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"My mistake"
The answer is: apologies
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Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II
The answer is: hellcats
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Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025
The answer is: irs
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Glenn who co-founded the Eagles
The answer is: frey
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A lot of lot
The answer is: acre
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Broadway show inits.
The answer is: sro
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Psy-___
The answer is: ops
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Near failure, colloquially
The answer is: ontheropes
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Fertile place
The answer is: oasis
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Swiss Army knife component
The answer is: canopener
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Aid for someone studying a culture
The answer is: petridish
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One who regularly takes a best friend out?
The answer is: dogowner
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Like some noodles and martinis
The answer is: wet
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Habeas corpus, e.g.
The answer is: writ
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Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards
The answer is: pak
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Dormant
The answer is: fallow
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Student of Socrates
The answer is: plato
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"Gymnopédies" composer
The answer is: satie
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Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying"
The answer is: erica
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Scouting trip
The answer is: recon
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Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache
The answer is: dali
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Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings"
The answer is: orcs
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___ team
The answer is: asa
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Gymnast Raisman
The answer is: aly
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Enervate
The answer is: sap
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