Daily Themed Crossword October 3 2026 Answers (10/3/26)

Our Daily Themed Crossword October 3, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Daily Themed Crossword is available as a mobile app on both iOS and Android devices. It has become a popular crossword app due to its regular crossword offerings and difficulty level (not too easy, not too difficult, generally). They release a new crossword each day, every day of the year, and each crossword has a theme and allows for hints in case an answer involves a more obscure word.

Daily Themed Crossword October 3, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Daily Themed Crossword on 10/3/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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« October 2 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Historical period
4A	Mississippi ___ pie (chocolate-based dessert)
7A	It's smaller than a city
11A	Pen ___ (long-distance friend)
12A	Suspicious and on guard (rhymes with "fairy")
13A	"___-hoo!" (rhyming cry of delight)
14A	Sue Grafton's "___ for Innocent": 2 wds.
15A	Teenager's skin trouble
16A	Flapjack breakfast chain: Abbr.
17A	(1/7) Triiing You reach to snooze your phone alarm, but instead there's an alarm ___ rattling you awake. Something's wrong.
19A	Nitrous ___ (laughing gas)
20A	Animal that goes "pop!" in a nursery rhyme
24A	Coleslaw condiment, for short
27A	(2/7) This isn't your room. Panic sets in. You need the date, but there is no phone in sight. You spot a ___ on the wall and gasp: it's 1985!
32A	"Are you vegan ___ meat-eater?": 2 wds.
33A	"___ be okay" ("Don't worry")
34A	"I shouldn't have done that!" exclamation
35A	(3/7) You run into the hallway, desperate to find where you are. Rummaging in drawers, you find a crumpled paper ___. You're in New Jersey!
36A	"___ man walks into the bar ...": 2 wds.
37A	Chooses, with "for"
38A	(4/7) Hands shaking, you hunt for a phone. Finally, you find one, but it's a rotary ___, heavy and fixed to the wall with a spiral cord.
41A	Supermodel ___ Carangi
42A	"It's of no ___!" ("This is pointless!")
43A	Justin Timberlake's boy band
45A	Reply to a question, for short
46A	Stack of cash
49A	(5/7) You hear a ___ drifting from another room. Expecting a speaker, you find a dusty, old record player, its tune hauntingly familiar.
50A	Prefix with "puncture"
51A	Inflated sense of self
52A	"Peek-___!" (game with a toddler): Hyph.
53A	"___ Loves You," hit single by The Beatles
54A	Arrow's partner
1D	Heroic narrative like "The Odyssey," e.g.
2D	Tram track part
3D	"One more thing ..."
4D	McDonald's Big ___ (burger)
5D	Vessel used to hold ashes
6D	Colorant that can turn your hair purple
7D	Caramel-coated Mars bar
8D	"___! I wasn't expecting you!": 2 wds.
9D	(6/7) You shiver, instinctively searching for a thermostat. Instead, you find an empty fireplace with a pile of ___ and a box of matches.
10D	"Yep" counterpart
12D	(7/7) You hear a faint ringing. You chase it from room to room, until ... you ___ up to your phone blaring by your bed, back to the present!
18D	U.S. Navy rank (anagram of "cow"): Abbr.
19D	The Grand ___ Opry
21D	"Lawyers ___ behalf of their clients": 2 wds.
22D	Something that might be tossed and dressed
23D	Right-angled tetris shape
24D	Mother, affectionately
25D	Palindromic constellation name
26D	Talk non-stop (rhymes with "tap")
28D	"In space, ___ can hear you scream" (advertising tagline for "Alien"): 2 wds.
29D	Pretty cool, slangily (rhymes with "rope")
30D	Like a befitting reply
31D	Blog feed format: Abbr.
33D	Newton who discovered gravity
38D	Local dialect or jargon
39D	Midday meal where you might have a 22d
40D	Comic book series installment
41D	Women's health specialist, informally
43D	U.S. surveillance group: Abbr.
44D	Kind of story
45D	Small-size batteries
46D	Fly catcher
47D	In the bygone days
48D	___ Jones & Company (publishing firm)

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