NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2026
NYT Crossword Answers Oct 26, 2026
Complete answer list for the October 26, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 37
- 1Mimicking ↗APING
- 6Altered mortgage, for short ↗REFI
- 10"___ Abner" of old comics ↗LIL
- 13Washer cycle after "wash" ↗RINSE
- 14___ White, three-time Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding ↗SHAUN
- 15Wedding vow ↗IDO
- 16Walled area for a racket sport ↗SQUASHCOURT
- 18Aunt, in Tijuana ↗TIA
- 19"___ Lips Are Sealed" (1981 Go-Go's hit) ↗OUR
- 20Little hopper ↗TOAD
- 21"It's boiling in here!" ↗IMHOT
- 23Food, water or shelter ↗NEED
- 25Band with the 1999 triple-platinum hit "All Star" ↗SMASHMOUTH
- 28Political connections ↗INS
- 30"Laughing" beast ↗HYENA
- 31Sonnets and such ↗POESY
- 34Partner of gloom ↗DOOM
- 36Break off suddenly ↗SNAP
- 39"Pretty please? I won't ask again" ↗JUSTTHISONETIME
- 42"Absolutely, amigo!" ↗SISI
- 43Kids' fun run length, for short ↗ONEK
- 44Have a knee-jerk response, perhaps ↗REACT
- 45Something acute or obtuse ↗ANGLE
- 47Dinghy thingy ↗OAR
- 48Played mind games with ↗PSYCHEDOUT
- 52Post-Christmas event ↗SALE
- 56Game with numbered balls ↗LOTTO
- 57"The ___ thickens" ↗PLOT
- 59Beantown home team, informally ↗SOX
- 60"I am the eggman. They ___ the eggmen …" (Beatles lyric) ↗ARE
- 61All over the place … or a hint to the circled letters in 16-, 25-, 39- and 48-Across ↗SCATTERSHOT
- 65Word before "a bird," "a plane" and "Superman!" ↗ITS
- 66Actress Shire of the "Godfather" trilogy ↗TALIA
- 67"Old MacDonald" refrain ↗EIEIO
- 68___ King Cole ↗NAT
- 69Contract detail, informally ↗SPEC
- 70Painter's stand ↗EASEL
Down 41
- 1Firing offense? ↗ARSON
- 2Arouse, as interest ↗PIQUE
- 3Make accustomed (to) ↗INURE
- 4Hush-hush D.C. org. ↗NSA
- 5Bit of derring-do ↗GEST
- 6"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff ↗RHODA
- 7All-vowel French 101 word ↗EAU
- 8Sable or mink ↗FUR
- 9Before the deadline ↗INTIME
- 10Vilnius is its capital ↗LITHUANIA
- 11No-brainer? ↗IDIOT
- 12Reluctant (to) ↗LOATH
- 14Phishing scheme, e.g. ↗SCAM
- 17Brother on TV's "Bonanza" ↗HOSS
- 22Bogeymen ↗MONSTERS
- 24Having a sharp outline ↗DISTINCT
- 26"All ___ Up" (Elvis #1 hit) ↗SHOOK
- 27It's sung in praise ↗HYMN
- 29Manhattan-based media org. ↗NYT
- 31Bedwear, in brief ↗PJS
- 32All-vowel French 101 word ↗OUI
- 33Blue-book event ↗ESSAYTEST
- 34Partner of wined ↗DINED
- 35Suffix for some sugars ↗OSE
- 37"Better Call Saul" network ↗AMC
- 38___ peeve ↗PET
- 40Reason to give a darn? ↗HOLE
- 411970s feminist cause, for short ↗ERA
- 46Ends a relationship with by suddenly cutting off communication ↗GHOSTS
- 47Central Plains tribe ↗OTOE
- 48Without any toppings ↗PLAIN
- 49To a degree, informally ↗SORTA
- 50Of the eyes ↗OPTIC
- 51Big name in cosmetics ↗ULTA
- 53Grill residue ↗ASHES
- 54Sergeant's superior, slangily ↗LOOIE
- 55Praise to the skies ↗EXTOL
- 58Word with family or fir ↗TREE
- 62One may be twist-off ↗CAP
- 63Pub pint, perhaps ↗ALE
- 64One-named "Chandelier" singer ↗SIA