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NYT Crossword Hints and Solutions for 6. October, 2026
Across and Down clue hints for today's Crossword.
Across
5 Across: Hands, informally … or coverings for hands
10 Across: "Not another peep out of you!"
14 Across: Classical Persian poet
15 Across: Nebraska home of Creighton University
16 Across: Between cruise ports, say
17 Across: Intl. oil group
18 Across: Like streakers
19 Across: Deep blue
20 Across: Pale and sickly
22 Across: Have an "aha" moment about
23 Across: Urged (on)
24 Across: One of six, supposedly, for a seer
25 Across: "___ Were a Rich Man"
26 Across: Rear of a boat
27 Across: Lifeless
30 Across: Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history"
33 Across: Video game section
34 Across: Pen points
38 Across: Number on a dating profile
39 Across: Gallops into the sunset, say
41 Across: "I've seen better"
42 Across: Attend without a date
44 Across: Sound in polka music
46 Across: Strategic disk game played on a vertical board
50 Across: Music genre for James Brown
51 Across: Device once used with a Blockbuster rental
52 Across: Mission-driven grps., often
54 Across: "___ you listening?"
55 Across: Who said "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"
57 Across: May honoree
59 Across: Animal with a "mask"
62 Across: A step above amateur
65 Across: Peeved
66 Across: Like italic type
67 Across: With 68-Across, posable plaything ... or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46-Across
68 Across: See 67-Across
Down
1 Down: Is released, as an album
2 Down: Currency in Mumbai
3 Down: Clarifying phrase
4 Down: Interception returned for a touchdown
5 Down: Start of the workweek: Abbr.
6 Down: Saw in one's mind's eye
7 Down: Break for a few minutes
8 Down: Newspaper in New York, L.A. or Seattle, colloquially
9 Down: Bummed out
10 Down: Surf with one's toes off the front of the board
11 Down: What an electric meter measures
12 Down: Cut completely
13 Down: Joseph called "Father of the Symphony"
21 Down: Coin dated with the year of its country's imperial era
23 Down: Latin "is"
28 Down: Put in a row
29 Down: Unapproachable
30 Down: Newsstand purchase, informally
31 Down: In the past
32 Down: Feline adoption option
35 Down: Spur-of-the-moment
36 Down: Arthur of "The Golden Girls"
37 Down: "Zip it!"
39 Down: Place in a hierarchy
40 Down: Midnight's opposite
43 Down: Suffix in the names of many U.S. cities
45 Down: Starbucks keepsake, perhaps
47 Down: Hurdles or high jump, e.g.
48 Down: Loops in, digitally
49 Down: Secure tightly
50 Down: Swiss currency
53 Down: How you may feel after a workout vis-à-vis before
54 Down: Operatic solo
55 Down: Become a member of
56 Down: Subject of introspection
58 Down: Preset camera option
60 Down: ___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries' expectations for forensics)
61 Down: Yoko who participated in a bed-in
63 Down: ___ tai
64 Down: Bank with a lion in its logo
Today's NYT Crossword FAQ
How many clues are in today's NYT Crossword crossword?
Today's Crossword (#24520, 2026-10-06) has 77 clues — 37 Across and 40 Down.
What size is today's Crossword grid?
A 15x15 grid.
What's the longest answer today?
11 letters — no spoilers, but that's your longest foothold if you're stuck.