NYT Crossword October 9, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Mensches 9 10A "Super Dry" brewer 5 15A Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect 9 16A Persona non grata 5 17A By an even stronger argument, at law 9 18A Stars to gaze up at 5 19A Not mad 4 20A Squishy projectile 8 22A Cackling carnivores 6 25A World's third-largest river by discharge, after the Amazon and the Congo 7 27A Miserly sorts, informally 8 30A Rift 3 31A Like a certain artery 8 32A Mango leftovers 4 33A The astronomer Tycho Brahe, for one 4 34A Org. concerned with screenings 3 35A Wine leftovers 4 36A ___ Kar-wai, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker behind 1994's "Chungking Express" 4 37A Hounds that can run up to 35 m.p.h. 8 39A It's mine, all mine! 3 40A NPR program since 1987 8 41A Two aces, say 7 43A Kind of roll 6 47A Comfortable 8 50A "Do I ___ to eat a peach?": T.S. Eliot 4 51A Record of the year? 5 52A Drawing on another's life 9 55A Handle 5 56A Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga 9 57A Hidden element of FedEx's logo 5 58A Extremely difficult and ultimately futile 9

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1D Hit the hay hard 5 2D Morgan ___, sorceress in King Arthur stories 5 3D Not having company 5 4D What Odysseus' crew waxed on about? 9 5D Mahjong grouping 3 6D Org. concerned with screenings 3 7D "Really?!" 4 8D Zero out, in a way 4 9D Device geared to draw rotationally symmetrical shapes 10 10D Accounts for checking? 6 11D Compact, maybe 5 12D "My mistake" 9 13D Some Navy aircraft during W.W. II 8 14D Org. requiring crypto disclosures beginning in 2025 3 21D Glenn who co-founded the Eagles 4 23D A lot of lot 4 24D Broadway show inits. 3 26D Psy-___ 3 28D Near failure, colloquially 10 29D Fertile place 5 31D Swiss Army knife component 9 32D Aid for someone studying a culture 9 33D One who regularly takes a best friend out? 8 35D Princess who says "Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board" 4 36D Like some noodles and martinis 3 37D Habeas corpus, e.g. 4 38D Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards 3 40D Dormant 6 42D Student of Socrates 5 44D "Gymnopédies" composer 5 45D Jong who wrote "Fear of Flying" 5 46D Scouting trip 5 48D Artist with an absurdist humor book all about his mustache 4 49D Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings" 4 51D ___ team 3 53D Gymnast Raisman 3 54D Enervate 3