NYT Crossword Answers 10/13/26

NYT Across Clues

• 1A ___ classic (“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” or “Pulp Fiction,” e.g.) CULT
• 5A Spongy wetlands BOGS
• 9A Titleholder CHAMP
• 14A Engrave ETCH
• 15A Dirt pie ingredient OREO
• 16A Greek goddesses of the seasons HORAE
• 17A Optional mission in a video game SIDEQUEST
• 19A Gradually eat away ERODE
• 20A Selfless sort ALTRUIST
• 21A Shindig for someone to announce whether they’re having a boy or a girl GENDER
• 22A ? REVEAL
• 23A Lie next to ABUT
• 25A Show on which Tina Fey and Seth Meyers have worked as head writers, in brief SNL
• 26A Tropical cocktail with bananas, strawberries, rum and coconut cream LAVAFLOW
• 31A Go downhill fast SKI
• 34A Feedbag contents OATS
• 36A Shindig for someone settling into a new home HOUSE
• 37A ? WARMING
• 40A Flips, say RESELLS
• 42A Skirt, as an issue AVOID
• 43A Jennifer who wrote “A Visit From the Goon Squad” EGAN
• 45A Auction unit LOT
• 46A Cowboy’s kerchief BANDANNA
• 48A Show stoppers? ADS
• 51A Goes bad ROTS
• 52A Shindig for someone who’s about to tie the knot BRIDAL
• 56A ? SHOWER
• 60A Like a dish of veal or chicken dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried in butter MILANESE
• 62A Surfers ride them WAVES
• 63A Lunchroom CAFETERIA
• 64A Wolf in “The Jungle Book” AKELA
• 65A Initials on a map until 1991 USSR
• 66A Shindig for the cast and crew after filming is done ? with a hint to entering this answer and three others in the grid WRAP
• 67A ? PARTY
• 68A Boxing stats TKOS
• 69A Jazz singer Sylvia SYMS

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D ___ Millan, celebrity dog trainer CESAR
• 2D Handy UTILE
• 3D High-def flat screen, for short LCDTV
• 4D “Ay, ___ the rub” THERES
• 5D Broth that might come from a dissolved cube BOUILLON
• 6D Magnetite and bauxite ORES
• 7D Whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts, from the German GESTALT
• 8D Barfly SOT
• 9D Spotted African sprinters CHEETAHS
• 10D Car’s honker HORN
• 11D Longtime Yankee slugger, familiarly AROD
• 12D Earned MADE
• 13D Member of a jury PEER
• 18D Ke Huy ___, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actor QUAN
• 21D Boss, in Britain GUV
• 24D Major Iraqi port city BASRA
• 27D Adversary FOE
• 28D Quiet period LULL
• 29D Scandinavian capital OSLO
• 30D Toward sunset WEST
• 31D Mop, as the deck SWAB
• 32D Polynesian brew KAVA
• 33D Smooth out, as a wrinkled shirt IRON
• 35D Talent broker AGENT
• 38D Mediocre, in modern slang MID
• 39D “?Tis entirely likely” IDARESAY
• 41D Those going along with others’ unhealthy habits ENABLERS
• 44D Item worn with a hazmat suit GASMASK
• 47D Negative connector NOR
• 49D “Curses!” DRAT
• 50D Fibrous connecting tissues SINEWS
• 53D Second-largest city in Northern Ireland DERRY
• 54D “Take me ___” ASIAM
• 55D Bounds LEAPS
• 56D Substitute SWAP
• 57D Ceremonial Maori dance HAKA
• 58D Done OVER
• 59D Mark left by a whip WELT
• 61D “Should that be true ?” IFSO
• 63D Word before “one’s losses” or “both ways” CUT