New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 10/21/2026. The October 21 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Teacher’s pet, say, in slangKISSUP
- 7a Cumming who won a Tony for “Cabaret”ALAN
- 11a White lieFIB
- 14a Not well knownARCANE
- 15a Driving range?LANE
- 16a N.H.L.’s Mammoth, on scoreboardsUTA
- 17a Driver’s Ed: BPARKINGFINE
- 19a Alt tab?LSD
- 20a Sporty vehicles, in briefUTES
- 21a Reunion attendee, for shortGRAD
- 22a BluntsDULLS
- 24a Crop whose trade contributed to the Opium WarsTEA
- 25a Parisian permissionOUI
- 26a Tender bend-erBUMKNEE
- 28a Gym: B+MOVINGAVERAGE
- 31a ___ faire (festival with jousting)REN
- 32a Life phase, informallyERA
- 33a In the thick ofAMID
- 34a Had dinner at homeATEIN
- 37a Great sorrowWOE
- 38a Nutrition sourcesDIETS
- 39a ___ saltado (Peruvian stir-fry dish)LOMO
- 40a TavernBAR
- 41a Baby boySON
- 42a Wood shop: ABUILDINGSUPER
- 46a Have the same opinion aboutAGREEON
- 47a Chemical suffix that indicates a double bondENE
- 48a “A Nightmare on ___ Street”ELM
- 51a Scene that may begin “Follow that car!”CHASE
- 52a Like a tennis player who didn’t even swing, maybeACED
- 54a Sneaker brandAVIA
- 55a Province with Niagara Falls: Abbr.ONT
- 56a History: A+PASTPERFECT
- 59a Look back on with regretRUE
- 60a At any pointEVER
- 61a Stephen King’s telekinetic teen of horrorCARRIE
- 62a Figures in some rumored landings, for shortETS
- 63a Short Instagram postingREEL
- 64a Difficult, as a problemKNOTTY
- Down
- 1d WreckedKAPUT
- 2d Like a passionate solver discovering a filled-in airline magazine crossword, sayIRATE
- 3d Edvard Munch painting, with “The”SCREAM
- 4d Fifth Avenue retailerSAKS
- 5d Mono-UNI
- 6d Bird that gives pebbles as a courtship gesturePENGUIN
- 7d Bravo precederALFA
- 8d Made publicLAIDBARE
- 9d Actress Dowd of “The Handmaid’s Tale”ANN
- 10d “Can I help?”NEEDME
- 11d First and last, sayFULLNAME
- 12d “That checks out”ITSLEGIT
- 13d Rotten applesBADSEEDS
- 18d Sly look, sayGRIN
- 23d Kyiv’s countryUKRAINE
- 25d Bake-off needOVEN
- 27d Sch. that’s home to Thomas Jefferson’s Academical VillageUVA
- 29d Birds with a Baltimore speciesORIOLES
- 30d Physicist OhmGEORG
- 34d White tunaALBACORE
- 35d One that’s hard to crackTOUGHNUT
- 36d Airline headquartered in DubaiEMIRATES
- 37d “Are you ready for this?”WANNASEE
- 38d Fabulous, in slangDOPE
- 40d Info that might include “Originally from …”BIO
- 41d Open-air part of a cruise shipSUNDECK
- 43d More profoundDEEPER
- 44d Soak slowlySEEP
- 45d BackslideREVERT
- 49d AllowedLICIT
- 50d Fellow crew memberMATEY
- 53d Shortcut keyCTRL
- 54d Musical lead-in to beatAFRO
- 57d Blvd. crosserAVE
- 58d Tried for officeRAN