NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Oct 9, 2026

Complete answer list for the October 9, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Nam Jin YoonEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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Across 31

  1. 1Mensches ↗CLASSACTS
  2. 10"Super Dry" brewer ↗ASAHI
  3. 15Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect ↗RELIEFMAP
  4. 16Persona non grata ↗LEPER
  5. 17By an even stronger argument, at law ↗AFORTIORI
  6. 18Stars to gaze up at ↗IDOLS
  7. 19Not mad ↗SANE
  8. 20Squishy projectile ↗NERFBALL
  9. 22Cackling carnivores ↗HYENAS
  10. 25World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo ↗ORINOCO
  11. 27Miserly sorts, informally ↗SCROOGES
  12. 30Rift ↗GAP
  13. 31Like a certain artery ↗CORONARY
  14. 32Mango leftovers ↗PITS
  15. 33The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one ↗DANE
  16. 34Org. concerned with screenings ↗TSA
  17. 35Wine leftovers ↗LEES
  18. 36___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express" ↗WONG
  19. 37Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h. ↗WHIPPETS
  20. 39It's mine, all mine! ↗EGO
  21. 40NPR program since 1987 ↗FRESHAIR
  22. 41Two aces, say ↗TOPPAIR
  23. 43Kind of roll ↗KAISER
  24. 47Comfortable ↗WELLTODO
  25. 50"Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot ↗DARE
  26. 51Record of the year? ↗ANNAL
  27. 52Drawing on another's life ↗PARASITIC
  28. 55Handle ↗SEETO
  29. 56Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga ↗ELCLASICO
  30. 57Hidden element of FedEx's logo ↗ARROW
  31. 58Extremely difficult and ultimately futile ↗SISYPHEAN

Down 37

  1. 1Hit the hay hard ↗CRASH
  2. 2Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories ↗LEFAY
  3. 3Not having company ↗ALONE
  4. 4What Odysseus' crew waxed on about? ↗SIRENSONG
  5. 5Mahjong grouping ↗SET
  6. 6Org. concerned with screenings ↗AFI
  7. 7"Really?!" ↗CMON
  8. 8Zero out, in a way ↗TARE
  9. 9Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes ↗SPIROGRAPH
  10. 10Accounts for checking? ↗ALIBIS
  11. 11Compact, maybe ↗SEDAN
  12. 12"My mistake" ↗APOLOGIES
  13. 13Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II ↗HELLCATS
  14. 14Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025 ↗IRS
  15. 21Glenn who co-founded the Eagles ↗FREY
  16. 23A lot of lot ↗ACRE
  17. 24Broadway show inits. ↗SRO
  18. 26Psy-___ ↗OPS
  19. 28Near failure, colloquially ↗ONTHEROPES
  20. 29Fertile place ↗OASIS
  21. 31Swiss Army knife component ↗CANOPENER
  22. 32Aid for someone studying a culture ↗PETRIDISH
  23. 33One who regularly takes a best friend out? ↗DOGOWNER
  24. 35Princess who says "Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board" ↗LEIA
  25. 36Like some noodles and martinis ↗WET
  26. 37Habeas corpus, e.g. ↗WRIT
  27. 38Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards ↗PAK
  28. 40Dormant ↗FALLOW
  29. 42Student of Socrates ↗PLATO
  30. 44"Gymnopédies" composer ↗SATIE
  31. 45Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying" ↗ERICA
  32. 46Scouting trip ↗RECON
  33. 48Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache ↗DALI
  34. 49Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings" ↗ORCS
  35. 51___ team ↗ASA
  36. 53Gymnast Raisman ↗ALY
  37. 54Enervate ↗SAP