NYT Crossword Answers 10/10/26

NYT Across Clues

• 1A Artist whose first two initials stand for “Maurits Cornelis” ESCHER
• 7A Get to know a little better, say BONEUPON
• 15A Kind STRIPE
• 16A “Not today, Satan!” OHHELLNO
• 17A Like Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear TRAGIC
• 18A Place where it’s a hoot to raise a family? OWLSNEST
• 19A Part of a swearing-in ceremony OATH
• 20A Peak overlooking the Grindelwald Valley EIGER
• 22A Do a bad job of helping? ABET
• 23A Frito ___ (Tex-Mex dish) PIE
• 24A “Float like a butterfly” and “sting like a bee” SIMILES
• 26A Office building abbr. STE
• 27A It’s a lot for one person to take GROUPSELFIE
• 30A Was hot (for) THIRSTED
• 31A Likely gonna APTTO
• 35A Natives call it Muncibeddu, meaning “mountain of mountains” ETNA
• 36A Seattle’s W.N.B.A. team STORM
• 39A Be boastful CROW
• 40A Member of the winning 2025 Super Bowl team EAGLE
• 42A Some 1980s Jane Fonda performances WORKOUTS
• 44A Round and round and round? BOXINGMATCH
• 47A Este día HOY
• 50A Determine the going price? SETBAIL
• 51A London’s ___ Gardens KEW
• 53A “That makes sense now” AHOK
• 55A Patches up, in a way DARNS
• 56A ___ Dee, lead role on HBO’s “Insecure” ISSA
• 57A Played by oneself HADASOLO
• 59A Animated character with a signature quiff hairstyle TINTIN
• 61A Croupier’s query AREYOUIN
• 62A Hide, in a way, as a communication ENCODE
• 63A State revenue source SALESTAX
• 64A Became the beneficiary of REAPED

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Legally prohibit ESTOP
• 2D Kind of student STRAIGHTA
• 3D In free fall CRATERING
• 4D Word with grade or school HIGH
• 5D Prefix with dermis EPI
• 6D Gate RECEIPTS
• 7D Hip-hop’s birthplace, colloquially BOOGIEDOWNBRONX
• 8D “What a pity” OHWELL
• 9D Sports figure who traditionally wears an orange armband, in brief NHLREF
• 10D Some Caltech grads: Abbr. EES
• 11D It’s seen near a wrist ULNA
• 12D Commoners PLEBS
• 13D Start ONSET
• 14D “Buona ___” (bedtime words in Roma) NOTTE
• 21D “No more for me, thanks” IMSET
• 24D Like a sketchy person SUS
• 25D One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills” SIA
• 28D Flossing brand ORALB
• 29D Walt Disney initially designed it as a utopian city EPCOT
• 30D Bit of concert merch TEE
• 32D Refueling spot TRUCKSTOP
• 33D Where a wallflower often stands TOTHESIDE
• 34D Sounds of pain OWS
• 37D Podcaster Joe ROGAN
• 38D 1980s chart-topping band with a semi-duplicative name MRMISTER
• 41D Camera brand named after a goddess EOS
• 43D Actor Penn KAL
• 45D Struck XEDOUT
• 46D Neighbor of Francia ITALIA
• 47D Contents of a laugh track HAHAS
• 48D John who wrote “BUtterfield 8” OHARA
• 49D Certain snack cake YODEL
• 52D Abated WANED
• 54D Danny who was UNICEF’s’s first goodwill ambassador KAYE
• 56D Peruvian ___ Orchid (dog breed) INCA
• 58D Title of a #1 Rihanna song and #1 SZA album SOS
• 60D Suffix with morph- INE