New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 10/23/2026. The October 23 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Have serious plansTHINKBIG
- 9a One of the famMOMMA
- 14a Annual appraisal statementWHATAYEAR
- 15a Positioned to winAHEAD
- 16a Track event won by the fastest four legsHORSERACE
- 17a Marvel Comics villain with an explosive superpowerNITRO
- 18a American court org.USTA
- 19a Ensemble pieceACCESSORY
- 21a Some sous-chef scrapsPEELS
- 23a Three-time Olympic figure skating championHENIE
- 24a A.M. cupfulsOJS
- 26a Band at a Jimmy Buffett concert?LEI
- 28a “America’s Largest Classroom”PBS
- 29a CinchSNAP
- 30a With whom one pools pounds for quartersFLATMATE
- 33a CopyCLONE
- 34a Count to 10, perhapsCOOLOFF
- 35a Opposite of proudASHAMED
- 37a Get past a paywall, sayLOGIN
- 38a Boundaries between areas with different amounts of coverageTANLINES
- 40a Healing agentALOE
- 41a Hardly worth mentioningMEH
- 42a Counterpoint segueYET
- 43a One who’s left at the polls, informally?DEM
- 44a Bobby ___, first recipient of the Best New Artist Grammy Award (1960)DARIN
- 46a Plague that precedes lice in ExodusFROGS
- 50a “Let go of unrealistic expectations,” e.g.DATINGTIP
- 53a Fabled example of poor competition strategyHARE
- 54a Actress Amanda of “Easy A”BYNES
- 55a Penalty for exceeding a payroll threshold, in sports lingoLUXURYTAX
- 57a Cartoonish bouncing soundBOINK
- 58a “Hang on a sec”ONEMOMENT
- 59a They can help one get a leg up, informallyQUADS
- 60a What all the buzz is about?WASPNEST
- Down
- 1d ___ days (times past)THOSE
- 2d Emma ___, protagonist of “A Woman of Substance”HARTE
- 3d “Don’t believe one word of that!”ITSALLALIE
- 4d “I’m afraid not, laddie”NAE
- 5d Actress SedgwickKYRA
- 6d Word with comb or towelBEACH
- 7d “Your offer is too good to refuse”IACCEPT
- 8d Minestrone morselGREENBEAN
- 9d Dwelling for clergyMANSE
- 10d “The most beautiful river on earth,” per Thomas JeffersonOHIO
- 11d One may sit near a bench marking timeMETRONOME
- 12d Strap-and-buckle shoes named for a comic strip character who wore themMARYJANES
- 13d BotherADO
- 14d Beat but goodWHUP
- 20d Daughter of one’s 9-AcrossSIS
- 22d Firmly committed toSETON
- 25d Beat a map app’s arrival time estimate, saySPED
- 27d Global fiscal policy org.IMF
- 29d Poetic device with inexact sound-alikesSLANTRHYME
- 30d “Ha! Betcha didn’t see that coming!”FOOLEDYOU
- 31d Abnormal talkativenessLOGOMANIA
- 32d Lingering aura of successAFTERGLOW
- 33d Most importantCHIEF
- 34d “Thou art fairer than the evening air ___ in the beauty of a thousand stars”: MarloweCLAD
- 36d Said with a wink, saySLY
- 39d Reddish fish sometimes served tartareAHITUNA
- 41d “Dang!”MAN
- 44d Pieces in the game OthelloDISKS
- 45d ScrapsNIXES
- 47d Writer of the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”OATES
- 48d Funds for researchGRANT
- 49d Cellphone hot line?SEXT
- 51d Care forTEND
- 52d Remedy for deflationPUMP
- 54d Kind of joint associated with smoking, informallyBBQ
- 56d Pulitzer-winning biographer ChernowRON