The full solution for the NY Times October 09 2026 Crossword puzzle is displayed below. This puzzle was authored by Nam Jin Yoon and edited by Will Shortz.
NYT Across Clues
- 1A Mensches CLASSACTS
- 10A “Super Dry” brewer ASAHI
- 15A Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect RELIEFMAP
- 16A Persona non grata LEPER
- 17A By an even stronger argument, at law AFORTIORI
- 18A Stars to gaze up at IDOLS
- 19A Not mad SANE
- 20A Squishy projectile NERFBALL
- 22A Cackling carnivores HYENAS
- 25A World’s third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo ORINOCO
- 27A Miserly sorts, informally SCROOGES
- 30A Rift GAP
- 31A Like a certain artery CORONARY
- 32A Mango leftovers PITS
- 33A The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one DANE
- 34A Org. concerned with screenings TSA
- 35A Wine leftovers LEES
- 36A ___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994’s “Chungking Express” WONG
- 37A Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h. WHIPPETS
- 39A It’s mine, all mine! EGO
- 40A NPR program since 1987 FRESHAIR
- 41A Two aces, say TOPPAIR
- 43A Kind of roll KAISER
- 47A Comfortable WELLTODO
- 50A “Do I ___ to eat a peach?”: T.S. Eliot DARE
- 51A Record of the year? ANNAL
- 52A Drawing on another’s life PARASITIC
- 55A Handle SEETO
- 56A Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer’s La Liga ELCLASICO
- 57A Hidden element of FedEx’s logo ARROW
- 58A Extremely difficult and ultimately futile SISYPHEAN
NYT Vertical Clues
- 1D Hit the hay hard CRASH
- 2D Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories LEFAY
- 3D Not having company ALONE
- 4D What Odysseus’ crew waxed on about? SIRENSONG
- 5D Mahjong grouping SET
- 6D Org. concerned with screenings AFI
- 7D “Really?!” CMON
- 8D Zero out, in a way TARE
- 9D Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes SPIROGRAPH
- 10D Accounts for checking? ALIBIS
- 11D Compact, maybe SEDAN
- 12D “My mistake” APOLOGIES
- 13D Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II HELLCATS
- 14D Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025 IRS
- 21D Glenn who co-founded the Eagles FREY
- 23D A lot of lot ACRE
- 24D Broadway show inits. SRO
- 26D Psy-___ OPS
- 28D Near failure, colloquially ONTHEROPES
- 29D Fertile place OASIS
- 31D Swiss Army knife component CANOPENER
- 32D Aid for someone studying a culture PETRIDISH
- 33D One who regularly takes a best friend out? DOGOWNER
- 35D Princess who says “Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board” LEIA
- 36D Like some noodles and martinis WET
- 37D Habeas corpus, e.g. WRIT
- 38D Cricket’s Men in Green, on scoreboards PAK
- 40D Dormant FALLOW
- 42D Student of Socrates PLATO
- 44D “Gymnopédies” composer SATIE
- 45D Jong who wrote “Fear of Flying” ERICA
- 46D Scouting trip RECON
- 48D Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache DALI
- 49D Sauron’s soldiers in “The Lord of the Rings” ORCS
- 51D ___ team ASA
- 53D Gymnast Raisman ALY
- 54D Enervate SAP
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