Newsday Crossword October 18, 2026 Answers
By Jerry Clarkson · Edited by Stan Newman
Every answer for the Newsday Crossword from October 18, 2026, organized by Across and Down. Tap any clue for its answer and past appearances.
Across
Bottles-on-wall array of song5 Individually4 Class clown5 The original leading man4 Castle employee5 Spicy cuisine4 Francois' farewell5 Asian wasteland4 Car's torque transmitter10 60-Across owner10 Keeper of REM records8 Uncompromising5 Procedural pain6 Savings partner4 Savings combinations5 Has bought4 Corporate advancement6 Kors competitor5 One holding 46-Across8 Hold in reserve5 Predatory insects11 Chocolate or cherry3 Debt notes4 Two-use4 Sound of swine4 Castaways' homes4 Novelist Patchett3 Water sport of a sort11 Artist Matisse5 Retail proceeds8 Ward worker5 Winless racehorse6 Venerable luxury car, for short5 IQ test developer5 Telegraph pioneer5 Artistic approaches6 "Eureka," for California5 Green guarder, often8 Electrified weapon5 Freudian study11 Tenth-century starter3 Surrounded by4 Arias, for example4 Moonwalker Cernan4 Moonwalker Shepard4 Checkers choice3 West Side Story weapon11 Flavor of the month5 Property tort8 Quite a while5 Improvised in a band6 Acknowledge4 Police squad5 Dubbed titles4 Narrow channel6 Burn slightly5 '90s fad dance8 '20s fad dance10 What the 10 longest answers (including this one) all lack10 Lobby for4 Crime-story story5 Russia's __ Mountains4 Musical's usual conclusion5 Club collection4 Societal customs5 Fun and games4 Naval commandos5Down
Hanes alternatives4 Rank below marquis4 Author Wiesel4 Boisterous celebrants8 Instructions starter7 Actor Hawke5 Ishmael's boss4 Half-__ (latte order)3 Top-40 tune7 Decathlon event7 Aromas5 Oven for ceramics4 Cry of fright3 Sorority recruitment period8 Four-time Australian Open champ6 Follows relentlessly4 Son of 15-Across4 Miser's shout4 Board under a bed4 Harry Potter film props5 Ruckus4 Bell sounds5 Circular gasket5 Like most people5 Sculpting medium5 Rural region11 Ruckuses5 Loretta Lynn mentor5 Storm sound11 Far-out5 Amber, for one5 Bros5 Impose (on)5 Toys that may talk5 Film caper5 Harvest machine5 Storage rentals5 Total5 Chemical coolant5 Tess Durbeyfield creator5 Put new bottoms on5 Word in many Alps names5 Antiseptic acid5 It's west of New Brunswick5 Get going5 Not as scintillating5 Gets mushy5 Motorless vehicles5 Render speechless5 Longed (for)5 Presence of mind5 Ice-cream thickeners5 Police squad8 What some detentes have deterred8 Treat too well5 Cape Cod hub7 Glacier remnant4 Ready to skate7 South American capital7 Entangles6 End of a Latin boast4 Mythical weeper5 Sister of Charlie Brown5 Gulf War missile4 Via, for short4 Angry episode4 Ruckus4 PG assigner, formerly4 "At Last" singer James4 Moonwalker Armstrong4 With no representations4 Pavement caution3 Browser bookmark3Frequently Asked Questions
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