NYT CROSSWORD • SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Nov 1, 2026

Complete answer list for the November 1, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Kevin Curry and Zhou ZhangEdited by Will ShortzGrid 21×21136 clues

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Across 65

  1. 1This puzzle's subject ↗LABRAT
  2. 7One of the Three Musketeers ↗ATHOS
  3. 12Repeated words in the chorus of "Sweet Child o' Mine" ↗OHS
  4. 15Sidewalk adjoiner ↗ROAD
  5. 19Alternative to Parmesan ↗ASIAGO
  6. 20Bar order ↗DRINK
  7. 21Piece of pet furniture ↗CATCONDO
  8. 23Member of the largest contiguous empire in history ↗MONGOL
  9. 24What might be pulled when pulling one's leg, informally ↗HAMMY
  10. 25Heat, as peanuts ↗DRYROAST
  11. 26Roald Dahl title character who subsists on "snozzcumbers," with "the" ↗BFG
  12. 27How one might feel after a big meal ↗DROWSY
  13. 29Like a juicy fruit ↗PLUMP
  14. 30Appetizers, entree or dessert ↗OBSTACLECOURSE
  15. 36Lead-in to coin ↗DOGE
  16. 39Lacking excess ↗LEAN
  17. 40Streaming channel? ↗SLUICE
  18. 41___ Vista, Calif. ↗ISLA
  19. 42Handed out new hands ↗REDEALT
  20. 45Dude ↗FELLA
  21. 46Not as straight, as hair ↗WAVIER
  22. 48Son of Seth ↗ENOS
  23. 49Only cardinal direction not found in a U.S. state name ↗EAST
  24. 52Hungers ↗APPETITES
  25. 54Composer Zimmer ↗HANS
  26. 55Herbal sugar substitute ↗STEVIA
  27. 58Titular fictional heroine from the Alps ↗HEIDI
  28. 59Payment inits. found in "debt-free" ↗EBT
  29. 60Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir, in myth ↗THOR
  30. 61Modern moviemaking tech ↗CGI
  31. 63Burton who hosted PBS's "Reading Rainbow" ↗LEVAR
  32. 66Court defense ↗ALIBI
  33. 69Slingshot ammo ↗STONEWALL
  34. 71Rome's ___ Fountain ↗TREVI
  35. 72Kidney-related ↗RENAL
  36. 73Greek goddess whose chariot is pulled by Firebright and Daybright ↗EOS
  37. 74County north of San Francisco ↗NAPA
  38. 75Wyo. neighbor ↗NEB
  39. 76Most overdone ↗TRITEST
  40. 78"So cute!!" ↗ADORBS
  41. 81Seconds, say ↗MORE
  42. 82It's not a big dill ↗GHERKIN
  43. 84Leak out ↗SEEP
  44. 85Teensy ↗ITTY
  45. 86Eagle nests ↗AERIES
  46. 87Venomous snake ↗MAMBA
  47. 92Feline with distinctive blue eyes ↗SIAMESE
  48. 94Like a 1958 doubled die penny ↗RARE
  49. 95Steady, low sounds ↗THRUMS
  50. 97Caesar's years ↗ANNI
  51. 98Opposite of sharpen ↗BLUR
  52. 99Out of sight ↗INVISIBLEFENCE
  53. 103Versace's parent company ↗PRADA
  54. 105Soccer star Messi ↗LIONEL
  55. 106Opposite of menos, in Spanish ↗MAS
  56. 109Sheer bunk ↗UTTERROT
  57. 112Skillful ↗ADEPT
  58. 113Beethoven work originally titled "Bonaparte" ↗EROICA
  59. 116Vague response to "When?" ↗SOMETIME
  60. 117No fan of company ↗LONER
  61. 118In an unpleasant way ↗SOURLY
  62. 119Complaint ↗BEEF
  63. 120Number of legs on a butterfly ↗SIX
  64. 121Impatient ↗ANTSY
  65. 122Its famous holes are formed by propionibacteria ↗SWISSCHEESE

Down 71

  1. 1Sweet and gentle sort ↗LAMB
  2. 2Starting from ↗ASOF
  3. 3Play using all seven tiles in Scrabble ↗BINGO
  4. 4It's used over the counter ↗RAG
  5. 5Before ↗AGO
  6. 6Spun yarns ↗TOLDTALES
  7. 7Improvised ↗ADHOC
  8. 8Casts a wide net? ↗TRAWLS
  9. 9Male pronoun ↗HIMSELF
  10. 10"When I say 'go' ..." ↗ONMYCUE
  11. 11"The Brain — is wider than the ___": Dickinson ↗SKY
  12. 12Condition that may be treated with C.B.T. ↗OCD
  13. 13Angelic instruments ↗HARPS
  14. 14Taylor Swift hit with the lyric "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye" ↗STYLE
  15. 15Unit in the game Clue ↗ROOMDIVIDER
  16. 16"Well, the good thing is ..." ↗ONAPOSITIVENOTE
  17. 17They might be targeted ↗ADS
  18. 18Symbol for a stop on a subway map ↗DOT
  19. 22Wine label word ↗CRU
  20. 28Go off on ↗RANTAT
  21. 31"___ your heart!" ↗BLESS
  22. 32Mariners' domain ↗SEA
  23. 33Source of wealth for John D. Rockefeller ↗OIL
  24. 34Alma mater of Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe, in brief ↗UCLA
  25. 35Collect, as rewards ↗REAP
  26. 37Exuberance ↗GLEE
  27. 38Locales of tiny drums ↗EARS
  28. 42Try again ↗REHEAR
  29. 43Give permission to ↗ENABLE
  30. 44"I'm still talking!" ↗DONTINTERRUPTME
  31. 46Like the hours before dawn ↗WEE
  32. 47Slanted ↗ATILT
  33. 50Short arguments ↗SETTOS
  34. 51Kelly Ripa or Jimmy Kimmel ↗TVHOST
  35. 53Pride of Punxsutawney ↗PHIL
  36. 56Ammonium or sulfate ↗ION
  37. 57Spot for sports ↗ARENA
  38. 61Pitch raisers for guitarists ↗CAPOS
  39. 62Menacing look ↗GLARE
  40. 64Staves off ↗AVERTS
  41. 65Sirloin alternative ↗RIBEYE
  42. 67Many a shipwreck site ↗BARRIERREEF
  43. 68"Looks good to me," tersely ↗ILIKE
  44. 69Observed ↗SEEN
  45. 70Bundle ↗WAD
  46. 77"___ the season …" ↗TIS
  47. 79Parting words to a driver leaving in a storm ↗BESAFE
  48. 80Like jellyfish … but not books about jellyfish? ↗SPINELESS
  49. 81Ape ↗MIMIC
  50. 82Duds ↗GARB
  51. 83Recover from injury ↗HEAL
  52. 87Cable channel that awards V.M.A.s ↗MTV
  53. 88Common poke ingredient ↗AHI
  54. 89"___ Doubtfire" ↗MRS
  55. 90Take further than one's predecessors ↗BUILDON
  56. 91Peaceful kind of music ↗AMBIENT
  57. 93___ Arbor ↗ANN
  58. 96Calculus calculations ↗SLOPES
  59. 99Golden Globe winner Elba ↗IDRIS
  60. 100Grand Slam tournament winner Osaka ↗NAOMI
  61. 101What a ticket gets you ↗ENTRY
  62. 102Islamic rulers ↗EMIRS
  63. 104"Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": George Bernard Shaw ↗ART
  64. 107Oft-torn body parts, in brief ↗ACLS
  65. 108"Smile!" ↗SAYCHEESE
  66. 109Computer cable type ↗USB
  67. 110Low digit ↗TOE
  68. 111Cowboy nickname ↗TEX
  69. 112Carte preceder ↗ALA
  70. 114Quarrel ↗ROW
  71. 115Opposite of non ↗OUI