NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 29, 2026

Complete answer list for the October 29, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Sam EzerskyEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1570 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Fortune 500 listing: Abbr. ↗CORP
  2. 5Snap ↗PHOTO
  3. 10One initiating a Zoom meeting ↗HOST
  4. 14First to die in the Bible ↗ABEL
  5. 15Word has it ↗RUMOR
  6. 16"You're ___ something!" ↗ONTO
  7. 17Um, two bases for paint ↗LIKEOILANDWATER
  8. 20Ape-man's introduction ↗METARZAN
  9. 21Number that Jerry Rice wore for his entire N.F.L. career ↗EIGHTY
  10. 22Any of four of the six Nobel Prize categories: Abbr. ↗SCI
  11. 23Nickname for golfer Palmer ↗ARNIE
  12. 24An, uh, expensive air passenger class ↗IMEANBUSINESS
  13. 29Make out, in England ↗SNOG
  14. 30"Wow, that can't be right!" ↗GOSHNO
  15. 31Menial worker in a big company, metaphorically ↗COG
  16. 33Some saxes ↗ALTOS
  17. 35Situated ↗SET
  18. 36Puppy ↗WHELP
  19. 38Cry of frustration ↗GAH
  20. 39Modern-day aid for a data job, maybe ↗AITOOL
  21. 42Tackling work ↗ONIT
  22. 43Another way to say, er, "online" ↗WELLCONNECTED
  23. 46Non-sushi option at some sushi bars ↗RAMEN
  24. 47The present ↗NOW
  25. 48Paper you can trip on? ↗LSDTAB
  26. 50Ways of getting to the top ↗SKILIFTS
  27. 55It's ... (what am I trying to say?) ... it's what my dentist uses ↗YOUKNOWTHEDRILL
  28. 57Causes of dog bites ↗LICE
  29. 58Like flickers and flamingos ↗AVIAN
  30. 59Many a politician with a legal background, for short ↗EXDA
  31. 60C.F.L. team in Edmonton ↗ELKS
  32. 61Drunk, in modern slang ↗TURNT
  33. 62Neighbor of a Montenegrin ↗SERB

Down 37

  1. 1Tranquil ↗CALM
  2. 2Award won by a young Meryl Streep for her role in "Alice in Concert" (1981) ↗OBIE
  3. 3Totally destroyed, in gamer-speak ↗REKT
  4. 4"I think you should leave" ↗PLEASEGO
  5. 5Holding in high esteem ↗PRIZING
  6. 6___ skirt ↗HULA
  7. 7Easternmost member of the Arab League ↗OMAN
  8. 8Truckload ↗TON
  9. 9Get delivery, say ↗ORDERIN
  10. 10Hero of Philly? ↗HOAGIE
  11. 11Where things are happening ↗ONTHESCENE
  12. 12Leave in a text, say ↗STET
  13. 13Labourite's opponent ↗TORY
  14. 18It's all black and white ↗ORCA
  15. 19Separate (out) ↗WINNOW
  16. 23Kutcher on "Two and a Half Men" ↗ASHTON
  17. 24Acquisition through marriage ↗INLAW
  18. 25She has a lot of young followers ↗MOTHERDUCK
  19. 26Classic card game with a geographical name ↗BOSTON
  20. 27Hit with, as a pickup line ↗USEON
  21. 28Cube, e.g. ↗SOLID
  22. 29What an old roof might start to do ↗SAG
  23. 32Chat follower ↗GPT
  24. 34Author Rushdie ↗SALMAN
  25. 37Gets started the wrong way? ↗HOTWIRES
  26. 40Arctic craft ↗ICEBOAT
  27. 41Lax ↗LENIENT
  28. 44Fried bites for the Festival of Lights ↗LATKES
  29. 45Robitussin target ↗COLD
  30. 48Crocodile in a classic children's book ↗LYLE
  31. 49Tarnish, as a reputation ↗SOIL
  32. 50Ruckus ↗STIR
  33. 51Central Asian chieftain ↗KHAN
  34. 52Prix ___ ↗FIXE
  35. 53"In summary ...," in internet shorthand ↗TLDR
  36. 54Big hunk ↗SLAB
  37. 56Mountaineers' sch. ↗WVU