NYT Crossword October 16, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Word with strip or skirt 5 6A Conniption 3 9A Cuban poet/philosopher José 5 14A 2000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me" 15 17A Mail-centric fiction? 15 18A Virginia is in it, in brief 3 19A "Hah!" 7 20A "___ had it!" 3 21A Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met 4 23A "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff 5 24A Riot 4 25A Spiller of tea 5 27A Smelling things? 5 28A Date night viewing, often 13 34A High concept? 9 35A They explain what's in the cards 13 39A Comic strip sound of impact 5 40A Infant discomfort 5 42A Battery-powered string instrument player 4 43A Predicated 5 48A It has its highs and lows 4 49A Rocky openings? 3 50A Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals 7 52A It may begin with a +1: Abbr. 3 53A Idolizes 15 56A Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g. 15 57A Losing causes? 5 58A Yoga ___ 3 59A The 22nd Amendment limits them 5

Down

1D "Piece of cake!" 6 2D Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table 7 3D Not gendered 7 4D Dope 3 5D Some emergency resources 4 6D Serious dirt 5 7D State whose official fruit is the huckleberry 5 8D Done to death 5 9D Flow down the neck 4 10D Past word 3 11D Hot pockets? 7 12D 20-20, e.g. 7 13D Small sounds 6 15D One of 412 in the White House 4 16D Supermodel Banks 4 22D Took back one's words 7 24D One struggling to make ends meet 7 26D Grant 5 27D Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games 5 29D Procured 3 30D "___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book) 3 31D Complimentary lines 3 32D Tool for tracing family trees 3 33D Prefix with the name of any month 3 35D Mideast salad, in one spelling 7 36D Simon the Zealot, e.g. 7 37D Sparkly bits in a school art project 7 38D Like some deliveries 7 39D Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0 6 41D Stage-left orchestra section 6 43D Coccyx or phalange, e.g. 4 44D Unwelcome sound during a dream 5 45D Brown tint 5 46D Construct 5 47D Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto 4 50D May honorees 4 51D Outdoor item with flaps 4 54D Took a load off 3 55D 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator 3