Today’s NYT Crossword hints and answer for November 8
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Clues140
Across63
Down77
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Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Home of India's most-visited monument (4)
Starts with A, ends with AAGRA→
5A
Ending with hard or soft (4)
Starts with W, ends with EWARE→
9A
"___ girl!" (4)
Starts with A, ends with AATTA→
13A
Indian silk region (5)
Starts with A, ends with MASSAM→
18A
Company whose name took off as a verb in the 2020s (4)
Starts with Z, ends with MZOOM→
19A
SoCal N.F.L.'er (5)
Starts with L, ends with MLARAM→
20A
Letters of qualification (4)
Starts with F, ends with WFWIW→
21A
"Bumping," as a party (5)
Starts with A, ends with EALIVE→
22A
Confidential scoop (10)
Starts with I, ends with EINSIDEDOPE→
24A
Like threat advisories, typically (10)
Starts with C, ends with DCOLORCODED→
26A
See 27-Across (7)
Starts with Z, ends with SZEALOTS→
27A
Potatoes, e.g. + Soothe (13)
Starts with T, ends with STRUEBELIEVERS→
29A
French stew whose name sounds like an Italian sauce (6)
Starts with R, ends with TRAGOUT→
31A
"In case you didn't hear me …" (5)
Starts with I, ends with DISAID→
32A
Impaler of note (4)
Starts with V, ends with DVLAD→
33A
The Great Lakes, e.g. + Computer gurus (13)
Starts with Q, ends with TQUITINPROTEST→
36A
See 33-Across (7)
Starts with W, ends with TWALKOUT→
39A
Encounter virtually, in slang (5)
Starts with E, ends with TEMEET→
40A
All-star lineup? (5)
Starts with A, ends with TALIST→
41A
Internet chuckles (4)
Starts with L, ends with SLOLS→
42A
Makeup, mainly, of the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office (3)
Starts with O, ends with KOAK→
43A
German article (3)
Starts with D, ends with SDAS→
44A
Athlete's "juice" (4)
Starts with R, ends with DROID→
46A
Take an inch from a yard, say (3)
Starts with M, ends with WMOW→
47A
McDonald's McFlurry flavor (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOREO→
48A
More than might (5)
Starts with S, ends with LSHALL→
50A
Petty cash holder? (5)
Starts with M, ends with RMISER→
53A
Habitual overdrinker (3)
Starts with S, ends with TSOT→
55A
See 58-Across (7)
Starts with S, ends with SSUCKUPS→
58A
Remark + Gripping tool (13)
Starts with C, ends with SCOMPLIMENTERS→
63A
Detach, as a gate (7)
Starts with U, ends with EUNHINGE→
64A
It's heard during cold season (5)
Starts with A, ends with OACHOO→
65A
Chart showing almost a third of the world's land (7)
Starts with A, ends with PASIAMAP→
66A
Totally over it + Still woolly (13)
Starts with S, ends with NSOUNDONESHORN→
68A
See 66-Across (7)
Starts with S, ends with FSHOWOFF→
69A
Pro tip? (3)
Starts with N, ends with DNOD→
70A
Washington, but not Lincoln (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESTATE→
71A
Davis of "Thelma & Louise" (5)
Starts with G, ends with AGEENA→
72A
Washington or Lincoln (4)
Starts with C, ends with YCITY→
75A
One might be "great" (3)
Starts with A, ends with EAPE→
76A
Places for shots (4)
Starts with B, ends with SBARS→
77A
Morning cuppa (3)
Starts with J, ends with EJOE→
80A
Air force hero (3)
Starts with A, ends with EACE→
81A
Squashable, say (4)
Starts with P, ends with YPUNY→
83A
Life-and-death (5)
Starts with V, ends with LVITAL→
86A
Bring forth (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSPAWN→
88A
See 90-Across (7)
Starts with B, ends with GBULGING→
90A
Gym weight + Counted (on) (13)
Starts with B, ends with DBARRELBELLIED→
93A
Dregs in a wine cask (4)
Starts with L, ends with SLEES→
94A
Colonial-era Indian soldier (5)
Starts with S, ends with YSEPOY→
95A
It's not a one-off (6)
Starts with S, ends with LSERIAL→
96A
Online broadcasts + Obvious (13)
Starts with S, ends with SSPATREATMENTS→
100A
See 96-Across (7)
Starts with F, ends with SFACIALS→
103A
Attempt at a royal flush? (10)
Starts with P, ends with PPALACECOUP→
104A
Meme throwing shade on seemingly attractive boyfriend candidates (10)
Starts with H, ends with THESATENBUT→
106A
Like Yves Saint Laurent's "trapeze" dresses (5)
Starts with A, ends with EALINE→
107A
Tubelike articles of apparel (4)
Starts with H, ends with EHOSE→
108A
Author Calvino (5)
Starts with I, ends with OITALO→
109A
Exile isle (4)
Starts with E, ends with AELBA→
110A
Dangerous places to seek harbor (5)
Starts with R, ends with SREEFS→
111A
Home of the first family? (4)
Starts with E, ends with NEDEN→
112A
Place for a window display (4)
Starts with S, ends with LSILL→
113A
Astromancer, e.g. (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSEER→
Down
1D
Ansari of "Parks and Recreation" (4)
Starts with A, ends with ZAZIZ→
2D
No longer around (4)
Starts with G, ends with EGONE→
3D
Handful of prayers? (8)
Starts with R, ends with SROSARIES→
4D
Query upon entering a packed conference room, perhaps (7)
Starts with A, ends with EAMILATE→
5D
Crumples, as before tossing (6)
Starts with W, ends with PWADSUP→
6D
Certain queer identity, for short (3)
Starts with A, ends with OARO→
7D
Transfixed (4)
Starts with R, ends with TRAPT→
8D
Honorary title holders (7)
Starts with E, ends with IEMERITI→
9D
Patriots' group, in brief (7)
Starts with A, ends with TAFCEAST→
10D
Third-rate (6)
Starts with T, ends with TTWOBIT→
11D
Like many New York subway stations (5)
Starts with T, ends with DTILED→
12D
Missing tour dates? (4)
Starts with A, ends with LAWOL→
13D
Remote power sources (7)
Starts with A, ends with SAACELLS→
14D
Bratislava resident (6)
Starts with S, ends with KSLOVAK→
15D
Service entrance, often (8)
Starts with S, ends with RSIDEDOOR→
17D
Bathroom cabinetful, for short (4)
Starts with M, ends with SMEDS→
19D
Reveal (5)
Starts with L, ends with NLETON→
23D
Shirk one's responsibilities (5)
Starts with D, ends with TDOGIT→
25D
Approach in quality (5)
Starts with R, ends with LRIVAL→
28D
Draws on (4)
Starts with U, ends with SUSES→
30D
Follow behind (5)
Starts with T, ends with LTRAIL→
33D
"I'm done explaining myself!," to a mathematician (3)
Starts with Q, ends with DQED→
34D
Actress Thurman (3)
Starts with U, ends with AUMA→
35D
Outdated (3)
Starts with O, ends with DOLD→
36D
Render speechless, perhaps (3)
Starts with W, ends with WWOW→
37D
Initials for one OPEC member (3)
Starts with U, ends with EUAE→
38D
Call from a ref who doesn't count? (3)
Starts with T, ends with OTKO→
41D
___ Lightfoot, former mayor of Chicago (4)
Starts with L, ends with ILORI→
44D
2013 Eminem hit that tops out at 9.5 syllables per second (6)
Starts with R, ends with DRAPGOD→
45D
Actress/sibling Mary-Kate, Ashley or Elizabeth (5)
Starts with O, ends with NOLSEN→
46D
Bean or gourd (5)
Starts with M, ends with NMELON→
47D
Capital in, but not of, Ontario (6)
Starts with O, ends with AOTTAWA→
48D
Reedlike (6)
Starts with S, ends with YSKINNY→
49D
C-note (5)
Starts with H, ends with OHUNDO→
50D
Yemeni port with a namesake beverage (5)
Starts with M, ends with AMOCHA→
51D
Complaint during the dog days of summer (5)
Starts with I, ends with TIMHOT→
52D
Mold source (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESPORE→
53D
Get-togethers, slangily (6)
Starts with S, ends with SSESHES→
54D
Main ingredient in a German Zwiebelkuchen cake (5)
Starts with O, ends with NONION→
55D
Dubious, in modern lingo (3)
Starts with S, ends with SSUS→
56D
Primer número (3)
Starts with U, ends with OUNO→
57D
Jon M. ___, director of the "Wicked" movies (3)
Starts with C, ends with UCHU→
58D
Social grouping (5)
Starts with C, ends with ECASTE→
59D
Device in a hydrogen atomic clock (5)
Starts with M, ends with RMASER→
60D
Brooding offshoot of punk music (3)
Starts with E, ends with OEMO→
61D
Service that hosts the U.K. Space Command, in brief (3)
Starts with R, ends with FRAF→
62D
Letters read on a beach (3)
Starts with S, ends with FSPF→
67D
Award for an outstanding play (4)
Starts with E, ends with YESPY→
71D
Really puts off (5)
Starts with G, ends with SGALLS→
72D
Elevator unit (3)
Starts with C, ends with BCAB→
73D
Place for intubators and incubators, for short (3)
Starts with I, ends with UICU→
74D
Fabulate (8)
Starts with T, ends with ETELLALIE→
75D
Director Lee (3)
Starts with A, ends with GANG→
77D
Worthy of some time? (8)
Starts with J, ends with EJAILABLE→
78D
Be in for (3)
Starts with O, ends with EOWE→
79D
A dead one has a single outlet (3)
Starts with E, ends with DEND→
81D
Breaks through (7)
Starts with P, ends with SPIERCES→
82D
Wipe from visual memory, facetiously (5)
Starts with U, ends with EUNSEE→
83D
Source of a nicotine hit (7)
Starts with V, ends with NVAPEPEN→
84D
Flatten, in a way (4)
Starts with I, ends with NIRON→
85D
"Here's something that might work ..." (7)
Starts with T, ends with STRYTHIS→
86D
Golfing boo-boo (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESLICE→
87D
Des ___ (Chicago suburb) (7)
Starts with P, ends with SPLAINES→
89D
Not pass (6)
Starts with G, ends with FGETANF→
91D
Come upon (6)
Starts with B, ends with LBEFALL→
92D
Mythological lyrist (5)
Starts with E, ends with OERATO→
94D
Wasn't overturned (5)
Starts with S, ends with DSTOOD→
96D
Fight (with) (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSPAR→
97D
Lacking any suntan, say (4)
Starts with P, ends with EPALE→
98D
Long (for) (4)
Starts with A, ends with EACHE→
99D
Field of inquiry that so far has not had any provable success (4)
Starts with S, ends with ISETI→
101D
Garage job (4)
Starts with L, ends with ELUBE→
102D
Whose name goes first (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSTAR→
105D
Nickname for Sarah (3)
Starts with S, ends with LSAL→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for November 8, 2026?+
140 clues: 63 Across and 77 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Simeon Seigel and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Home of India's most-visited monument (AGRA); Ending with hard or soft (WARE); "___ girl!" (ATTA).
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