New Yorker Crossword October 20 2026 Answers (10/20/26)

Our New Yorker Crossword October 20, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The New Yorker Crossword October 20, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 10/20/26, 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 19 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Get back on track after time off work
12A	“Time ___ . . .” (“In my day . . .”)
15A	Time out?
16A	Preternatural awareness, for short
17A	Tossed with olive oil and cooked at four hundred degrees, say
18A	Simile segment
19A	Superlatively sour
20A	Drank slowly
22A	Abbr. in the names of many airports
23A	“Busted!”
26A	Details about one’s past
27A	Scored amt.
28A	Takes a break from making content?
32A	People doing trial runs of racecars or robotaxis
33A	Like qualifying rounds
34A	Books with crooks
35A	Site of Custer’s Last Stand
36A	Mode in which a phone can only make emergency calls
39A	“___ Lang Syne”
40A	Solidified
41A	Metacarpal or mandible, e.g.
42A	“Instant” or “active dry” options for bakers
45A	Digital-payment utility
48A	Sandwich to which an “A,” for avocado, might be added
49A	Metaphor for a situation in which the slightest loss of control is very costly
52A	Beverage bolder than a lager
53A	Extremely self-conscious?
54A	Newark mayor ___ Baraka
55A	Phrase often followed by an X and several lines
1D	“Here’s a life hack . . .”
2D	Region along the eastern Mediterranean
3D	Gives a heads-up
4D	1983 title role for Barbra Streisand
5D	Mind one way or the other
6D	British fast-fashion brand
7D	Assessments done on loose-leaf
8D	Parts of some music collections or investment portfolios
9D	Word after party or hard
10D	Members of Colorado’s federally recognized tribes
11D	Treatment often involving a pumice stone, informally
12D	Arms
13D	Claims
14D	Card game where a nil bid risks a hundred points
21D	Pair used for repairs
24D	Went back for seconds
25D	2018 film starring Rosamund Pike as the frontline reporter Marie Colvin
28D	Judges (to be)
29D	The ___ Brothers (“For the Love of You” singers)
30D	Trees with needles
31D	Cricket fields, shapewise
32D	Groups of three
33D	High-ranking clergy members
34D	Disney character not known for puppy love?
35D	Place that might have bears and Grasshoppers
36D	Comfort
37D	Capacity of some garages
38D	Accept a lesser option
41D	Onomatopoeic rebuke from Snoopy
43D	Old “you”
44D	Omen or indicator
46D	Standings column
47D	“Steady Love” singer India
50D	Word sometimes uttered in vain
51D	Medical-insurance grp.