NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2026
NYT Crossword Answers Oct 30, 2026
Complete answer list for the October 30, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 35
- 12019 film co-starring Taylor Swift as Bombalurina ↗CATS
- 5Like many fringe festival acts ↗EDGY
- 9Logic components in electric circuits ↗GATES
- 14Travel lead-in to "méxico" ↗AERO
- 15Aching ↗SORE
- 16Aches ↗HURTS
- 17Invented something, say ↗LIED
- 18Aid in evaluating some calls ↗SLOWMOTION
- 20It's been a long time ↗EON
- 21"Didn't we just say goodbye?" ↗BACKSOSOON
- 22Trees whose nuts and leaves are toxic to humans ↗BUCKEYES
- 24Unrestricted, in a way, in brief ↗OTC
- 25___ teeth (proverbial rarity) ↗HENS
- 26Running things ↗INPOWER
- 30Like the ingredients in a French chef's mirepoix ↗DICED
- 32Classic potluck dish ↗CASSEROLE
- 34Take on ↗ADOPT
- 35Tony-winning actress Stroker ↗ALI
- 36Unmanned NASA craft ↗PROBE
- 37Places for intertidal ecosystems ↗SEASHORES
- 39Bass drum attachment ↗PEDAL
- 40Result of keeping a lid on too long? ↗HATHEAD
- 41Push-up targets, informally ↗PECS
- 42Sites with clamps and curettes, for short ↗ORS
- 43Screens that stream ↗SMARTTVS
- 47"Hole-sale" outlets? ↗DONUTSHOPS
- 50"___ Short Day" ("Wicked" song) ↗ONE
- 51Lodging option for a trip with extended family ↗HOTELSUITE
- 52Eye part whose name shares the same etymological root as a throat part ↗UVEA
- 53Liqueur herb ↗ANISE
- 54"Happier Than ___" (Billie Eilish hit) ↗EVER
- 55They've split ↗SECT
- 56Targets of some Audubon cameras ↗NESTS
- 57Freshness ↗SASS
- 58Poses ↗ASKS
Down 35
- 1First name that contains four of the first five letters of the alphabet ↗CALEB
- 2Macronutrient group? ↗AEIOU
- 3Cover-up in an old detective film? ↗TRENCHCOAT
- 4Ground cover ↗SOD
- 5Pieces of writing from the French for "try" ↗ESSAYS
- 6Opposite of agitato, in music ↗DOLCE
- 7Grasps, informally ↗GROKS
- 8Some hedge shrubs ↗YEWS
- 9They're at least 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce ↗GHOSTPEPPERS
- 10Common fix for a prolbem? ↗AUTOCORRECT
- 11Alvin and the Chipmunks, e.g. ↗TRIO
- 12The Kynge's College of Our Ladye of ___ besyde Windesore ↗ETON
- 13Grp. of nine, divided in three? ↗SSN
- 19Juliet, Ophelia and Desdemona, to an astronomer ↗MOONS
- 21Take some liberties ↗BENDTHERULES
- 23Monitors for accuracy, just because ↗KEEPSHONEST
- 26Goddess referenced in "Aida" ↗ISIS
- 27Cordless heaters that you might order cords for? ↗WOODSTOVES
- 28Third-largest of Italy's islands, after Sicily and Sardinia ↗ELBA
- 29It might wind up near a tackle box ↗REEL
- 30Colon replacement ↗DASH
- 31"Any ___?" ↗IDEA
- 32Part of a hand ↗CARD
- 33Brewer's barrelful ↗ALE
- 38Ovens for hops ↗OASTS
- 41Pentagon ___ (subject of a 1971 Supreme Court ruling) ↗PAPERS
- 43Hindu god with three eyes ↗SHIVA
- 44Specks of dust ↗MOTES
- 45Kind of sweater ↗VNECK
- 46Parking spots? ↗SEATS
- 47Finish line? ↗DONE
- 48Eponym of the company that marketed the first escalator ↗OTIS
- 49Doesn't settle, say ↗SUES
- 51World's largest ethnic group ↗HAN
- 52Land that goes from coast to coast, in brief ↗USA