NYT Crossword October 13, 2026 Answers

Across

1A ___ classic ("The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Pulp Fiction," e.g.) 4 5A Spongy wetlands 4 9A Titleholder 5 14A Engrave 4 15A Dirt pie ingredient 4 16A Greek goddesses of the seasons 5 17A Optional mission in a video game 9 19A Gradually eat away 5 20A Selfless sort 8 21A Shindig for someone to announce whether they're having a boy or a girl 6 22A – 6 23A Lie next to 4 25A Show on which Tina Fey and Seth Meyers have worked as head writers, in brief 3 26A Tropical cocktail with bananas, strawberries, rum and coconut cream 8 31A Go downhill fast 3 34A Feedbag contents 4 36A Shindig for someone settling into a new home 5 37A – 7 40A Flips, say 7 42A Skirt, as an issue 5 43A Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad" 4 45A Auction unit 3 46A Cowboy's kerchief 8 48A Show stoppers? 3 51A Goes bad 4 52A Shindig for someone who's about to tie the knot 6 56A – 6 60A Like a dish of veal or chicken dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried in butter 8 62A Surfers ride them 5 63A Lunchroom 9 64A Wolf in "The Jungle Book" 5 65A Initials on a map until 1991 4 66A Shindig for the cast and crew after filming is done … with a hint to entering this answer and three others in the grid 4 67A – 5 68A Boxing stats 4 69A Jazz singer Sylvia 4

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1D ___ Millan, celebrity dog trainer 5 2D Handy 5 3D High-def flat screen, for short 5 4D "Ay, ___ the rub" 6 5D Broth that might come from a dissolved cube 8 6D Magnetite and bauxite 4 7D Whole that's greater than the sum of its parts, from the German 7 8D Barfly 3 9D Spotted African sprinters 8 10D Car's honker 4 11D Longtime Yankee slugger, familiarly 4 12D Earned 4 13D Member of a jury 4 18D Ke Huy ___, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" actor 4 21D Boss, in Britain 3 24D Major Iraqi port city 5 27D Adversary 3 28D Quiet period 4 29D Scandinavian capital 4 30D Toward sunset 4 31D Mop, as the deck 4 32D Polynesian brew 4 33D Smooth out, as a wrinkled shirt 4 35D Talent broker 5 38D Mediocre, in modern slang 3 39D "’Tis entirely likely" 8 41D Those going along with others' unhealthy habits 8 44D Item worn with a hazmat suit 7 47D Negative connector 3 49D "Curses!" 4 50D Fibrous connecting tissues 6 53D Second-largest city in Northern Ireland 5 54D "Take me ___" 5 55D Bounds 5 56D Substitute 4 57D Ceremonial Maori dance 4 58D Done 4 59D Mark left by a whip 4 61D "Should that be true …" 4 63D Word before "one's losses" or "both ways" 3