NYT Crossword October 30, 2026 Answers

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1A 2019 film co-starring Taylor Swift as Bombalurina 4 5A Like many fringe festival acts 4 9A Logic components in electric circuits 5 14A Travel lead-in to "méxico" 4 15A Aching 4 16A Aches 5 17A Invented something, say 4 18A Aid in evaluating some calls 10 20A It's been a long time 3 21A "Didn't we just say goodbye?" 10 22A Trees whose nuts and leaves are toxic to humans 8 24A Unrestricted, in a way, in brief 3 25A ___ teeth (proverbial rarity) 4 26A Running things 7 30A Like the ingredients in a French chef's mirepoix 5 32A Classic potluck dish 9 34A Take on 5 35A Tony-winning actress Stroker 3 36A Unmanned NASA craft 5 37A Places for intertidal ecosystems 9 39A Bass drum attachment 5 40A Result of keeping a lid on too long? 7 41A Push-up targets, informally 4 42A Sites with clamps and curettes, for short 3 43A Screens that stream 8 47A "Hole-sale" outlets? 10 50A "___ Short Day" ("Wicked" song) 3 51A Lodging option for a trip with extended family 10 52A Eye part whose name shares the same etymological root as a throat part 4 53A Liqueur herb 5 54A "Happier Than ___" (Billie Eilish hit) 4 55A They've split 4 56A Targets of some Audubon cameras 5 57A Freshness 4 58A Poses 4

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1D First name that contains four of the first five letters of the alphabet 5 2D Macronutrient group? 5 3D Cover-up in an old detective film? 10 4D Ground cover 3 5D Pieces of writing from the French for "try" 6 6D Opposite of agitato, in music 5 7D Grasps, informally 5 8D Some hedge shrubs 4 9D They're at least 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce 12 10D Common fix for a prolbem? 11 11D Alvin and the Chipmunks, e.g. 4 12D The Kynge's College of Our Ladye of ___ besyde Windesore 4 13D Grp. of nine, divided in three? 3 19D Juliet, Ophelia and Desdemona, to an astronomer 5 21D Take some liberties 12 23D Monitors for accuracy, just because 11 26D Goddess referenced in "Aida" 4 27D Cordless heaters that you might order cords for? 10 28D Third-largest of Italy's islands, after Sicily and Sardinia 4 29D It might wind up near a tackle box 4 30D Colon replacement 4 31D "Any ___?" 4 32D Part of a hand 4 33D Brewer's barrelful 3 38D Ovens for hops 5 41D Pentagon ___ (subject of a 1971 Supreme Court ruling) 6 43D Hindu god with three eyes 5 44D Specks of dust 5 45D Kind of sweater 5 46D Parking spots? 5 47D Finish line? 4 48D Eponym of the company that marketed the first escalator 4 49D Doesn't settle, say 4 51D World's largest ethnic group 3 52D Land that goes from coast to coast, in brief 3