NYT CROSSWORD • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026
NYT Crossword Answers Oct 6, 2026
Complete answer list for the October 6, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 37
- 1What a leaky faucet has ↗DRIP
- 5Hands, informally … or coverings for hands ↗MITTS
- 10"Not another peep out of you!" ↗HUSH
- 14Classical Persian poet ↗RUMI
- 15Nebraska home of Creighton University ↗OMAHA
- 16Between cruise ports, say ↗ASEA
- 17Intl. oil group ↗OPEC
- 18Like streakers ↗NAKED
- 19Deep blue ↗NAVY
- 20Pale and sickly ↗PEAKY
- 22Have an "aha" moment about ↗GET
- 23Urged (on) ↗EGGED
- 24One of six, supposedly, for a seer ↗SENSE
- 25"___ Were a Rich Man" ↗IFI
- 26Rear of a boat ↗STERN
- 27Lifeless ↗INANIMATE
- 30Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" ↗MARX
- 33Video game section ↗LEVEL
- 34Pen points ↗NIBS
- 38Number on a dating profile ↗AGE
- 39Gallops into the sunset, say ↗RIDESON
- 41"I've seen better" ↗MEH
- 42Attend without a date ↗GOSTAG
- 44Sound in polka music ↗OOMPAH
- 46Strategic disk game played on a vertical board ↗CONNECTFOUR
- 50Music genre for James Brown ↗FUNK
- 51Device once used with a Blockbuster rental ↗VCR
- 52Mission-driven grps., often ↗NGOS
- 54"___ you listening?" ↗ARE
- 55Who said "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth" ↗JESUS
- 57May honoree ↗MOM
- 59Animal with a "mask" ↗RACCOON
- 62A step above amateur ↗SEMIPRO
- 65Peeved ↗INASNIT
- 66Like italic type ↗SLANTED
- 67With 68-Across, posable plaything ... or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46-Across ↗ACTION
- 68See 67-Across ↗FIGURE
Down 40
- 1Is released, as an album ↗DROPS
- 2Currency in Mumbai ↗RUPEE
- 3Clarifying phrase ↗IMEAN
- 4Interception returned for a touchdown ↗PICKSIX
- 5Start of the workweek: Abbr. ↗MON
- 6Saw in one's mind's eye ↗IMAGINED
- 7Break for a few minutes ↗TAKEFIVE
- 8Newspaper in New York, L.A. or Seattle, colloquially ↗THETIMES
- 9Bummed out ↗SAD
- 10Surf with one's toes off the front of the board ↗HANGTEN
- 11What an electric meter measures ↗USAGE
- 12Cut completely ↗SEVER
- 13Joseph called "Father of the Symphony" ↗HAYDN
- 21Coin dated with the year of its country's imperial era ↗YEN
- 23Latin "is" ↗EST
- 28Put in a row ↗ALIGN
- 29Unapproachable ↗ALOOF
- 30Newsstand purchase, informally ↗MAG
- 31In the past ↗AGO
- 32Feline adoption option ↗RESCUECAT
- 35Spur-of-the-moment ↗IMPROMPTU
- 36Arthur of "The Golden Girls" ↗BEA
- 37"Zip it!" ↗SHH
- 39Place in a hierarchy ↗RANK
- 40Midnight's opposite ↗NOON
- 43Suffix in the names of many U.S. cities ↗TON
- 45Starbucks keepsake, perhaps ↗MUG
- 47Hurdles or high jump, e.g. ↗EVENT
- 48Loops in, digitally ↗CCS
- 49Secure tightly ↗TRUSS
- 50Swiss currency ↗FRANC
- 53How you may feel after a workout vis-à-vis before ↗SORER
- 54Operatic solo ↗ARIA
- 55Become a member of ↗JOIN
- 56Subject of introspection ↗SELF
- 58Preset camera option ↗MODE
- 60___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries' expectations for forensics) ↗CSI
- 61Yoko who participated in a bed-in ↗ONO
- 63___ tai ↗MAI
- 64Bank with a lion in its logo ↗ING