NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 16, 2026

Complete answer list for the October 16, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Adam ShapiroEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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Across 29

  1. 1Word with strip or skirt ↗STEAK
  2. 6Conniption ↗FIT
  3. 9Cuban poet/philosopher José ↗MARTI
  4. 142000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me" ↗OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
  5. 17Mail-centric fiction? ↗EPISTOLARYNOVEL
  6. 18Virginia is in it, in brief ↗ACC
  7. 19"Hah!" ↗SOTHERE
  8. 20"___ had it!" ↗IVE
  9. 21Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met ↗SHEA
  10. 23"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff ↗RHODA
  11. 24Riot ↗HOOT
  12. 25Spiller of tea ↗YENTA
  13. 27Smelling things? ↗SALTS
  14. 28Date night viewing, often ↗FEELGOODMOVIE
  15. 34High concept? ↗CLOUDNINE
  16. 35They explain what's in the cards ↗TAROTREADINGS
  17. 39Comic strip sound of impact ↗KAPOW
  18. 40Infant discomfort ↗COLIC
  19. 42Battery-powered string instrument player ↗EBOW
  20. 43Predicated ↗BASED
  21. 48It has its highs and lows ↗TIDE
  22. 49Rocky openings? ↗YOS
  23. 50Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals ↗MOLERAT
  24. 52It may begin with a +1: Abbr. ↗TEL
  25. 53Idolizes ↗PUTSONAPEDESTAL
  26. 56Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g. ↗ALLAMERICANHERO
  27. 57Losing causes? ↗DIETS
  28. 58Yoga ___ ↗MAT
  29. 59The 22nd Amendment limits them ↗TERMS

Down 39

  1. 1"Piece of cake!" ↗SOEASY
  2. 2Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table ↗TOPCHEF
  3. 3Not gendered ↗EPICENE
  4. 4Dope ↗ASS
  5. 5Some emergency resources ↗KITS
  6. 6Serious dirt ↗FILTH
  7. 7State whose official fruit is the huckleberry ↗IDAHO
  8. 8Done to death ↗TIRED
  9. 9Flow down the neck ↗MANE
  10. 10Past word ↗AGO
  11. 11Hot pockets? ↗RAVIOLI
  12. 1220-20, e.g. ↗TIEVOTE
  13. 13Small sounds ↗INLETS
  14. 15One of 412 in the White House ↗DOOR
  15. 16Supermodel Banks ↗TYRA
  16. 22Took back one's words ↗ATECROW
  17. 24One struggling to make ends meet ↗HAVENOT
  18. 26Grant ↗ALLOW
  19. 27Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games ↗SONIC
  20. 29Procured ↗GOT
  21. 30"___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book) ↗OUR
  22. 31Complimentary lines ↗ODE
  23. 32Tool for tracing family trees ↗DNA
  24. 33Prefix with the name of any month ↗MID
  25. 35Mideast salad, in one spelling ↗TABOULI
  26. 36Simon the Zealot, e.g. ↗APOSTLE
  27. 37Sparkly bits in a school art project ↗GLITTER
  28. 38Like some deliveries ↗SIDEARM
  29. 39Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0 ↗KEYPAD
  30. 41Stage-left orchestra section ↗CELLOS
  31. 43Coccyx or phalange, e.g. ↗BONE
  32. 44Unwelcome sound during a dream ↗ALARM
  33. 45Brown tint ↗SEPIA
  34. 46Construct ↗ERECT
  35. 47Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto ↗DADA
  36. 50May honorees ↗MOMS
  37. 51Outdoor item with flaps ↗TENT
  38. 54Took a load off ↗SAT
  39. 552011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator ↗SHE