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New York Times Crossword October 9 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 68 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 68 clues from the New York Times Crossword for October 9 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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ClueLetters#Answer
Mensches91 AcrossReveal answer → "Super Dry" brewer510 AcrossReveal answer → Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect915 AcrossReveal answer → Persona non grata516 AcrossReveal answer → By an even stronger argument, at law917 AcrossReveal answer → Stars to gaze up at518 AcrossReveal answer → Not mad419 AcrossReveal answer → Squishy projectile820 AcrossReveal answer → Cackling carnivores622 AcrossReveal answer → World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo725 AcrossReveal answer → Miserly sorts, informally827 AcrossReveal answer → Rift330 AcrossReveal answer → Like a certain artery831 AcrossReveal answer → Mango leftovers432 AcrossReveal answer → The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one433 AcrossReveal answer → Org. concerned with screenings334 AcrossReveal answer → Wine leftovers435 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express"436 AcrossReveal answer → Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h.837 AcrossReveal answer → It's mine, all mine!339 AcrossReveal answer → NPR program since 1987840 AcrossReveal answer → Two aces, say741 AcrossReveal answer → Kind of roll643 AcrossReveal answer → Comfortable847 AcrossReveal answer → "Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot450 AcrossReveal answer → Record of the year?551 AcrossReveal answer → Drawing on another's life952 AcrossReveal answer → Handle555 AcrossReveal answer → Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga956 AcrossReveal answer → Hidden element of FedEx's logo557 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely difficult and ultimately futile958 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hit the hay hard51 DownReveal answer → Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories52 DownReveal answer → Not having company53 DownReveal answer → What Odysseus' crew waxed on about?94 DownReveal answer → Mahjong grouping35 DownReveal answer → Org. concerned with screenings36 DownReveal answer → "Really?!"47 DownReveal answer → Zero out, in a way48 DownReveal answer → Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes109 DownReveal answer → Accounts for checking?610 DownReveal answer → Compact, maybe511 DownReveal answer → "My mistake"912 DownReveal answer → Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II813 DownReveal answer → Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025314 DownReveal answer → Glenn who co-founded the Eagles421 DownReveal answer → A lot of lot423 DownReveal answer → Broadway show inits.324 DownReveal answer → Psy-___326 DownReveal answer → Near failure, colloquially1028 DownReveal answer → Fertile place529 DownReveal answer → Swiss Army knife component931 DownReveal answer → Aid for someone studying a culture932 DownReveal answer → One who regularly takes a best friend out?833 DownReveal answer → Princess 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"435 DownReveal answer → Like some noodles and martinis336 DownReveal answer → Habeas corpus, e.g.437 DownReveal answer → Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards338 DownReveal answer → Dormant640 DownReveal answer → Student of Socrates542 DownReveal answer → "Gymnopédies" composer544 DownReveal answer → Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying"545 DownReveal answer → Scouting trip546 DownReveal answer → Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache448 DownReveal answer → Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings"449 DownReveal answer → ___ team351 DownReveal answer → Gymnast Raisman353 DownReveal answer → Enervate354 DownReveal answer →

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Friday, October 9, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.