New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 10/16/2026. The October 16 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Word with strip or skirtSTEAK
- 6a ConniptionFIT
- 9a Cuban poet/philosopher JoséMARTI
- 14a 2000 hit song with the lyric “But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me”OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
- 17a Mail-centric fiction?EPISTOLARYNOVEL
- 18a Virginia is in it, in briefACC
- 19a “Hah!”SOTHERE
- 20a “___ had it!”IVE
- 21a Former home of Mr. and Mrs. MetSHEA
- 23a “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” spinoffRHODA
- 24a RiotHOOT
- 25a Spiller of teaYENTA
- 27a Smelling things?SALTS
- 28a Date night viewing, oftenFEELGOODMOVIE
- 34a High concept?CLOUDNINE
- 35a They explain what’s in the cardsTAROTREADINGS
- 39a Comic strip sound of impactKAPOW
- 40a Infant discomfortCOLIC
- 42a Battery-powered string instrument playerEBOW
- 43a PredicatedBASED
- 48a It has its highs and lowsTIDE
- 49a Rocky openings?YOS
- 50a Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animalsMOLERAT
- 52a It may begin with a +1: Abbr.TEL
- 53a IdolizesPUTSONAPEDESTAL
- 56a Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g.ALLAMERICANHERO
- 57a Losing causes?DIETS
- 58a Yoga ___MAT
- 59a The 22nd Amendment limits themTERMS
- Down
- 1d “Piece of cake!”SOEASY
- 2d Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge’s TableTOPCHEF
- 3d Not genderedEPICENE
- 4d DopeASS
- 5d Some emergency resourcesKITS
- 6d Serious dirtFILTH
- 7d State whose official fruit is the huckleberryIDAHO
- 8d Done to deathTIRED
- 9d Flow down the neckMANE
- 10d Past wordAGO
- 11d Hot pockets?RAVIOLI
- 12d 20-20, e.g.TIEVOTE
- 13d Small soundsINLETS
- 15d One of 412 in the White HouseDOOR
- 16d Supermodel BanksTYRA
- 22d Took back one’s wordsATECROW
- 24d One struggling to make ends meetHAVENOT
- 26d GrantALLOW
- 27d Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video gamesSONIC
- 29d ProcuredGOT
- 30d “___ Share of Night” (acclaimed 2019 Mariana EnrÃquez book)OUR
- 31d Complimentary linesODE
- 32d Tool for tracing family treesDNA
- 33d Prefix with the name of any monthMID
- 35d Mideast salad, in one spellingTABOULI
- 36d Simon the Zealot, e.g.APOSTLE
- 37d Sparkly bits in a school art projectGLITTER
- 38d Like some deliveriesSIDEARM
- 39d Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0KEYPAD
- 41d Stage-left orchestra sectionCELLOS
- 43d Coccyx or phalange, e.g.BONE
- 44d Unwelcome sound during a dreamALARM
- 45d Brown tintSEPIA
- 46d ConstructERECT
- 47d Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifestoDADA
- 50d May honoreesMOMS
- 51d Outdoor item with flapsTENT
- 54d Took a load offSAT
- 55d 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the CreatorSHE