The full solution for the NY Times October 16 2026 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Adam Shapiro and edited by Will Shortz.
NYT Across Clues
- 1A Word with strip or skirt STEAK
- 6A Conniption FIT
- 9A Cuban poet/philosopher José MARTI
- 14A 2000 hit song with the lyric “But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me” OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
- 17A Mail-centric fiction? EPISTOLARYNOVEL
- 18A Virginia is in it, in brief ACC
- 19A “Hah!” SOTHERE
- 20A “___ had it!” IVE
- 21A Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met SHEA
- 23A “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” spinoff RHODA
- 24A Riot HOOT
- 25A Spiller of tea YENTA
- 27A Smelling things? SALTS
- 28A Date night viewing, often FEELGOODMOVIE
- 34A High concept? CLOUDNINE
- 35A They explain what’s in the cards TAROTREADINGS
- 39A Comic strip sound of impact KAPOW
- 40A Infant discomfort COLIC
- 42A Battery-powered string instrument player EBOW
- 43A Predicated BASED
- 48A It has its highs and lows TIDE
- 49A Rocky openings? YOS
- 50A Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals MOLERAT
- 52A It may begin with a +1: Abbr. TEL
- 53A Idolizes PUTSONAPEDESTAL
- 56A Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g. ALLAMERICANHERO
- 57A Losing causes? DIETS
- 58A Yoga ___ MAT
- 59A The 22nd Amendment limits them TERMS
NYT Vertical Clues
- 1D “Piece of cake!” SOEASY
- 2D Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge’s Table TOPCHEF
- 3D Not gendered EPICENE
- 4D Dope ASS
- 5D Some emergency resources KITS
- 6D Serious dirt FILTH
- 7D State whose official fruit is the huckleberry IDAHO
- 8D Done to death TIRED
- 9D Flow down the neck MANE
- 10D Past word AGO
- 11D Hot pockets? RAVIOLI
- 12D 20-20, e.g. TIEVOTE
- 13D Small sounds INLETS
- 15D One of 412 in the White House DOOR
- 16D Supermodel Banks TYRA
- 22D Took back one’s words ATECROW
- 24D One struggling to make ends meet HAVENOT
- 26D Grant ALLOW
- 27D Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games SONIC
- 29D Procured GOT
- 30D “___ Share of Night” (acclaimed 2019 Mariana EnrÃquez book) OUR
- 31D Complimentary lines ODE
- 32D Tool for tracing family trees DNA
- 33D Prefix with the name of any month MID
- 35D Mideast salad, in one spelling TABOULI
- 36D Simon the Zealot, e.g. APOSTLE
- 37D Sparkly bits in a school art project GLITTER
- 38D Like some deliveries SIDEARM
- 39D Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0 KEYPAD
- 41D Stage-left orchestra section CELLOS
- 43D Coccyx or phalange, e.g. BONE
- 44D Unwelcome sound during a dream ALARM
- 45D Brown tint SEPIA
- 46D Construct ERECT
- 47D Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto DADA
- 50D May honorees MOMS
- 51D Outdoor item with flaps TENT
- 54D Took a load off SAT
- 55D 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator SHE
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