New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 10/09/2026. The October 09 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a MenschesCLASSACTS
- 10a “Super Dry” brewerASAHI
- 15a Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspectRELIEFMAP
- 16a Persona non grataLEPER
- 17a By an even stronger argument, at lawAFORTIORI
- 18a Stars to gaze up atIDOLS
- 19a Not madSANE
- 20a Squishy projectileNERFBALL
- 22a Cackling carnivoresHYENAS
- 25a World’s third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the CongoORINOCO
- 27a Miserly sorts, informallySCROOGES
- 30a RiftGAP
- 31a Like a certain arteryCORONARY
- 32a Mango leftoversPITS
- 33a The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for oneDANE
- 34a Org. concerned with screeningsTSA
- 35a Wine leftoversLEES
- 36a ___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994’s “Chungking Express”WONG
- 37a Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h.WHIPPETS
- 39a It’s mine, all mine!EGO
- 40a NPR program since 1987FRESHAIR
- 41a Two aces, sayTOPPAIR
- 43a Kind of rollKAISER
- 47a ComfortableWELLTODO
- 50a “Do I ___ to eat a peach?”: T.S. EliotDARE
- 51a Record of the year?ANNAL
- 52a Drawing on another’s lifePARASITIC
- 55a HandleSEETO
- 56a Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer’s La LigaELCLASICO
- 57a Hidden element of FedEx’s logoARROW
- 58a Extremely difficult and ultimately futileSISYPHEAN
- Down
- 1d Hit the hay hardCRASH
- 2d Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur storiesLEFAY
- 3d Not having companyALONE
- 4d What Odysseus’ crew waxed on about?SIRENSONG
- 5d Mahjong groupingSET
- 6d Org. concerned with screeningsAFI
- 7d “Really?!”CMON
- 8d Zero out, in a wayTARE
- 9d Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapesSPIROGRAPH
- 10d Accounts for checking?ALIBIS
- 11d Compact, maybeSEDAN
- 12d “My mistake”APOLOGIES
- 13d Some Navy aircraft during W.W. IIHELLCATS
- 14d Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025IRS
- 21d Glenn who co-founded the EaglesFREY
- 23d A lot of lotACRE
- 24d Broadway show inits.SRO
- 26d Psy-___OPS
- 28d Near failure, colloquiallyONTHEROPES
- 29d Fertile placeOASIS
- 31d Swiss Army knife componentCANOPENER
- 32d Aid for someone studying a culturePETRIDISH
- 33d One who regularly takes a best friend out?DOGOWNER
- 35d 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”LEIA
- 36d Like some noodles and martinisWET
- 37d Habeas corpus, e.g.WRIT
- 38d Cricket’s Men in Green, on scoreboardsPAK
- 40d DormantFALLOW
- 42d Student of SocratesPLATO
- 44d “Gymnopédies” composerSATIE
- 45d Jong who wrote “Fear of Flying”ERICA
- 46d Scouting tripRECON
- 48d Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustacheDALI
- 49d Sauron’s soldiers in “The Lord of the Rings”ORCS
- 51d ___ teamASA
- 53d Gymnast RaismanALY
- 54d EnervateSAP