NYT Crossword October 6, 2026 Answers

Across

1A What a leaky faucet has 4 5A Hands, informally … or coverings for hands 5 10A "Not another peep out of you!" 4 14A Classical Persian poet 4 15A Nebraska home of Creighton University 5 16A Between cruise ports, say 4 17A Intl. oil group 4 18A Like streakers 5 19A Deep blue 4 20A Pale and sickly 5 22A Have an "aha" moment about 3 23A Urged (on) 5 24A One of six, supposedly, for a seer 5 25A "___ Were a Rich Man" 3 26A Rear of a boat 5 27A Lifeless 9 30A Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" 4 33A Video game section 5 34A Pen points 4 38A Number on a dating profile 3 39A Gallops into the sunset, say 7 41A "I've seen better" 3 42A Attend without a date 6 44A Sound in polka music 6 46A Strategic disk game played on a vertical board 11 50A Music genre for James Brown 4 51A Device once used with a Blockbuster rental 3 52A Mission-driven grps., often 4 54A "___ you listening?" 3 55A Who said "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth" 5 57A May honoree 3 59A Animal with a "mask" 7 62A A step above amateur 7 65A Peeved 7 66A Like italic type 7 67A With 68-Across, posable plaything ... or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46-Across 6 68A See 67-Across 6

Down

1D Is released, as an album 5 2D Currency in Mumbai 5 3D Clarifying phrase 5 4D Interception returned for a touchdown 7 5D Start of the workweek: Abbr. 3 6D Saw in one's mind's eye 8 7D Break for a few minutes 8 8D Newspaper in New York, L.A. or Seattle, colloquially 8 9D Bummed out 3 10D Surf with one's toes off the front of the board 7 11D What an electric meter measures 5 12D Cut completely 5 13D Joseph called "Father of the Symphony" 5 21D Coin dated with the year of its country's imperial era 3 23D Latin "is" 3 28D Put in a row 5 29D Unapproachable 5 30D Newsstand purchase, informally 3 31D In the past 3 32D Feline adoption option 9 35D Spur-of-the-moment 9 36D Arthur of "The Golden Girls" 3 37D "Zip it!" 3 39D Place in a hierarchy 4 40D Midnight's opposite 4 43D Suffix in the names of many U.S. cities 3 45D Starbucks keepsake, perhaps 3 47D Hurdles or high jump, e.g. 5 48D Loops in, digitally 3 49D Secure tightly 5 50D Swiss currency 5 53D How you may feel after a workout vis-à-vis before 5 54D Operatic solo 4 55D Become a member of 4 56D Subject of introspection 4 58D Preset camera option 4 60D ___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries' expectations for forensics) 3 61D Yoko who participated in a bed-in 3 63D ___ tai 3 64D Bank with a lion in its logo 3