NYT Crossword October 16 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on October 16 2026.
- 68
- Total Clues
- 29
- Total Across
- 39
- Total Down
Clues Across (29 total)
(1)
Word with strip or skirt
The answer is: steak
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Conniption
The answer is: fit
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Cuban poet/philosopher José
The answer is: marti
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2000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me"
The answer is: oopsididitagain
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Mail-centric fiction?
The answer is: epistolarynovel
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Virginia is in it, in brief
The answer is: acc
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"Hah!"
The answer is: sothere
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"___ had it!"
The answer is: ive
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(21)
Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met
The answer is: shea
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"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff
The answer is: rhoda
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Riot
The answer is: hoot
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Spiller of tea
The answer is: yenta
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Smelling things?
The answer is: salts
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(28)
Date night viewing, often
The answer is: feelgoodmovie
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High concept?
The answer is: cloudnine
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(35)
They explain what's in the cards
The answer is: tarotreadings
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Comic strip sound of impact
The answer is: kapow
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Infant discomfort
The answer is: colic
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(42)
Battery-powered string instrument player
The answer is: ebow
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Predicated
The answer is: based
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It has its highs and lows
The answer is: tide
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Rocky openings?
The answer is: yos
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Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals
The answer is: molerat
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It may begin with a +1: Abbr.
The answer is: tel
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Idolizes
The answer is: putsonapedestal
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Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g.
The answer is: allamericanhero
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Losing causes?
The answer is: diets
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Yoga ___
The answer is: mat
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The 22nd Amendment limits them
The answer is: terms
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Clues Down (39 total)
(1)
"Piece of cake!"
The answer is: soeasy
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(2)
Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table
The answer is: topchef
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Not gendered
The answer is: epicene
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Dope
The answer is: ass
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Some emergency resources
The answer is: kits
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Serious dirt
The answer is: filth
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State whose official fruit is the huckleberry
The answer is: idaho
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Done to death
The answer is: tired
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Flow down the neck
The answer is: mane
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Past word
The answer is: ago
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Hot pockets?
The answer is: ravioli
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20-20, e.g.
The answer is: tievote
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Small sounds
The answer is: inlets
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One of 412 in the White House
The answer is: door
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(16)
Supermodel Banks
The answer is: tyra
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(22)
Took back one's words
The answer is: atecrow
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One struggling to make ends meet
The answer is: havenot
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Grant
The answer is: allow
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(27)
Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games
The answer is: sonic
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Procured
The answer is: got
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(30)
"___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book)
The answer is: our
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Complimentary lines
The answer is: ode
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Tool for tracing family trees
The answer is: dna
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Prefix with the name of any month
The answer is: mid
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Mideast salad, in one spelling
The answer is: tabouli
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Simon the Zealot, e.g.
The answer is: apostle
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(37)
Sparkly bits in a school art project
The answer is: glitter
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(38)
Like some deliveries
The answer is: sidearm
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(39)
Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0
The answer is: keypad
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Stage-left orchestra section
The answer is: cellos
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Coccyx or phalange, e.g.
The answer is: bone
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Unwelcome sound during a dream
The answer is: alarm
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Brown tint
The answer is: sepia
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Construct
The answer is: erect
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Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto
The answer is: dada
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May honorees
The answer is: moms
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(51)
Outdoor item with flaps
The answer is: tent
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(54)
Took a load off
The answer is: sat
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2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator
The answer is: she
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