NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 31, 2026

Complete answer list for the October 31, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Erik Agard and Brendan Emmett QuigleyEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1566 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Couldn't get any higher? ↗RATESATEN
  2. 10Stamp collector? ↗MAIL
  3. 14"No need to worry around me" ↗IDONTBITE
  4. 15To the point that ↗UNTIL
  5. 17Drawing pad ↗ARTTABLET
  6. 18Opera with the shepherd's song "Io de' sospiri" ↗TOSCA
  7. 19Brand of oven-baked crackers ↗TOASTEDS
  8. 20Subject of a statue near Liverpool's Cavern Club ↗LENNON
  9. 21Feel bad ↗AIL
  10. 22Look over ↗EYE
  11. 23Not good, but not bad either ↗MID
  12. 24Azog the Defiler in "The Hobbit," e.g. ↗ORC
  13. 25Leader with a dacha ↗TSAR
  14. 27It feels like it might never end ↗EON
  15. 28Reason for penalty shootouts ↗TIE
  16. 29Rap group with the 1992 #2 hit "Rump Shaker" ↗WRECKXNEFFECT
  17. 34Don't stop believing ↗KEEPHOPEALIVE
  18. 35Store with expensive items? ↗TREASURETROVE
  19. 36One fast with the one-liners ↗WIT
  20. 37Brooks in Hollywood ↗MEL
  21. 38Headed ↗WENT
  22. 40Kinda sorta ↗ISH
  23. 41Cash flow analyst, for short ↗CPA
  24. 42Cheerful person? ↗FAN
  25. 44Trig fig. ↗COS
  26. 46Schöningen ___, German mine discoveries that may be up to 300,000 years old ↗SPEARS
  27. 48Instrument in a bell tower ↗CARILLON
  28. 50Rounded object that's 1-Down with two letters swapped ↗TIARA
  29. 51Eisenhower was the first president to use it ↗MARINEONE
  30. 52End of a letter ↗SERIF
  31. 531997 animated movie in which John Cusack voiced Dimitri ↗ANASTASIA
  32. 54"Hurry!" ↗STAT
  33. 55Part of a surveillance system ↗VIDEOFEED

Down 33

  1. 1Rounded object that's 50-Across with two letters swapped ↗RIATA
  2. 2Deft ↗ADROIT
  3. 3That's a good one! ↗TOTALSWEETHEART
  4. 4Canalplasty docs ↗ENTS
  5. 5Some capitol workers, for short ↗STATEREPS
  6. 6Monk's home ↗ABBEY
  7. 7El Niño feature ↗TILDE
  8. 8"Vous ___ ici" ↗ETES
  9. 9Bring home ↗NET
  10. 10Not making a sound ↗MUTED
  11. 11Nobody in particular, in brief ↗ANON
  12. 12"There's no doubt who's going to win" ↗ITSNOTEVENCLOSE
  13. 13Flavor of some cough drops ↗LICORICE
  14. 16Surgical tool with a namesake medical journal ↗LANCET
  15. 20In a row ↗LINEAR
  16. 23"Boulevard des Capucines" painter ↗MONET
  17. 26Sphere ↗AREA
  18. 27Boot ↗EXPEL
  19. 30Born losers ↗CHUMPS
  20. 31It's nicknamed "Land of the Morning Calm" ↗KOREA
  21. 32Arrived at via plane ↗FLOWNINTO
  22. 33Count on one's fingers? ↗FIVE
  23. 34Word after Rice or Cocoa ↗KRISPIES
  24. 35Senegalese ___ (hairstyle) ↗TWISTS
  25. 39Canadian coin, informally ↗TOONIE
  26. 41Mastery ↗CRAFT
  27. 42F in physics ↗FARAD
  28. 43Stand up ↗ARISE
  29. 45Golf's "Slammin' Sammy" ↗SNEAD
  30. 47"The soul of opera," per Richard Strauss ↗ARIA
  31. 48"Do you mind?" ↗CANI
  32. 49Idly look (through) ↗LEAF
  33. 51American Airlines Center player, for short ↗MAV