NYT Crossword hints and answer for October 9, 2026
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Clues68
Across31
Down37
ConstructorNam Jin Yoon
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Mensches (9)
Starts with C, ends with SCLASSACTS→
10A
"Super Dry" brewer (5)
Starts with A, ends with IASAHI→
15A
Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect (9)
Starts with R, ends with PRELIEFMAP→
16A
Persona non grata (5)
Starts with L, ends with RLEPER→
17A
By an even stronger argument, at law (9)
Starts with A, ends with IAFORTIORI→
18A
Stars to gaze up at (5)
Starts with I, ends with SIDOLS→
19A
Not mad (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESANE→
20A
Squishy projectile (8)
Starts with N, ends with LNERFBALL→
22A
Cackling carnivores (6)
Starts with H, ends with SHYENAS→
25A
World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo (7)
Starts with O, ends with OORINOCO→
27A
Miserly sorts, informally (8)
Starts with S, ends with SSCROOGES→
31A
Like a certain artery (8)
Starts with C, ends with YCORONARY→
32A
Mango leftovers (4)
Starts with P, ends with SPITS→
33A
The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one (4)
Starts with D, ends with EDANE→
34A
Org. concerned with screenings (3)
Starts with T, ends with ATSA→
35A
Wine leftovers (4)
Starts with L, ends with SLEES→
36A
___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express" (4)
Starts with W, ends with GWONG→
37A
Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h. (8)
Starts with W, ends with SWHIPPETS→
39A
It's mine, all mine! (3)
Starts with E, ends with OEGO→
40A
NPR program since 1987 (8)
Starts with F, ends with RFRESHAIR→
41A
Two aces, say (7)
Starts with T, ends with RTOPPAIR→
43A
Kind of roll (6)
Starts with K, ends with RKAISER→
47A
Comfortable (8)
Starts with W, ends with OWELLTODO→
50A
"Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot (4)
Starts with D, ends with EDARE→
51A
Record of the year? (5)
Starts with A, ends with LANNAL→
52A
Drawing on another's life (9)
Starts with P, ends with CPARASITIC→
55A
Handle (5)
Starts with S, ends with OSEETO→
56A
Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga (9)
Starts with E, ends with OELCLASICO→
57A
Hidden element of FedEx's logo (5)
Starts with A, ends with WARROW→
58A
Extremely difficult and ultimately futile (9)
Starts with S, ends with NSISYPHEAN→
Down
1D
Hit the hay hard (5)
Starts with C, ends with HCRASH→
2D
Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories (5)
Starts with L, ends with YLEFAY→
3D
Not having company (5)
Starts with A, ends with EALONE→
4D
What Odysseus' crew waxed on about? (9)
Starts with S, ends with GSIRENSONG→
5D
Mahjong grouping (3)
Starts with S, ends with TSET→
6D
Org. concerned with screenings (3)
Starts with A, ends with IAFI→
7D
"Really?!" (4)
Starts with C, ends with NCMON→
8D
Zero out, in a way (4)
Starts with T, ends with ETARE→
9D
Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes (10)
Starts with S, ends with HSPIROGRAPH→
10D
Accounts for checking? (6)
Starts with A, ends with SALIBIS→
11D
Compact, maybe (5)
Starts with S, ends with NSEDAN→
12D
"My mistake" (9)
Starts with A, ends with SAPOLOGIES→
13D
Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II (8)
Starts with H, ends with SHELLCATS→
14D
Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025 (3)
Starts with I, ends with SIRS→
21D
Glenn who co-founded the Eagles (4)
Starts with F, ends with YFREY→
23D
A lot of lot (4)
Starts with A, ends with EACRE→
24D
Broadway show inits. (3)
Starts with S, ends with OSRO→
26D
Psy-___ (3)
Starts with O, ends with SOPS→
28D
Near failure, colloquially (10)
Starts with O, ends with SONTHEROPES→
29D
Fertile place (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOASIS→
31D
Swiss Army knife component (9)
Starts with C, ends with RCANOPENER→
32D
Aid for someone studying a culture (9)
Starts with P, ends with HPETRIDISH→
33D
One who regularly takes a best friend out? (8)
Starts with D, ends with RDOGOWNER→
35D
36D
Like some noodles and martinis (3)
Starts with W, ends with TWET→
37D
Habeas corpus, e.g. (4)
Starts with W, ends with TWRIT→
38D
Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards (3)
Starts with P, ends with KPAK→
40D
Dormant (6)
Starts with F, ends with WFALLOW→
42D
Student of Socrates (5)
Starts with P, ends with OPLATO→
44D
"Gymnopédies" composer (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESATIE→
45D
Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying" (5)
Starts with E, ends with AERICA→
46D
Scouting trip (5)
Starts with R, ends with NRECON→
48D
Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache (4)
Starts with D, ends with IDALI→
49D
Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings" (4)
Starts with O, ends with SORCS→
51D
___ team (3)
Starts with A, ends with AASA→
53D
Gymnast Raisman (3)
Starts with A, ends with YALY→
54D
Enervate (3)
Starts with S, ends with PSAP→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for October 9, 2026?+
68 clues: 31 Across and 37 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Nam Jin Yoon and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Mensches (CLASSACTS); "Super Dry" brewer (ASAHI); Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect (RELIEFMAP).
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