Crossword Answers for October 6, 2026 – Solve Every Clue Fast

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 — verified Across & Down clues

37 Across · 40 Down


Across
1A What a leaky faucet Crossword Clue
DRIP
5A Hands, informally ? or coverings for Crossword Clue
MITTS
10A “Not another peep out of you!” Crossword Clue
HUSH
14A Classical Persian Crossword Clue
RUMI
15A Nebraska home of Creighton Crossword Clue
OMAHA
16A Between cruise ports, Crossword Clue
ASEA
17A Intl. oil Crossword Clue
OPEC
18A Like Crossword Clue
NAKED
19A Deep Crossword Clue
NAVY
20A Pale and Crossword Clue
PEAKY
22A Have an “aha” moment Crossword Clue
GET
23A Urged (on) Crossword Clue
EGGED
24A One of six, supposedly, for a Crossword Clue
SENSE
25A “___ Were a Rich Man” Crossword Clue
IFI
26A Rear of a Crossword Clue
STERN
27A L Crossword Clue
INANIMATE
30A Who said “Revolutions are the locomotives of history” Crossword Clue
MARX
33A Video game Crossword Clue
LEVEL
34A Pen Crossword Clue
NIBS
38A Number on a dating Crossword Clue
AGE
39A Gallops into the sunset, Crossword Clue
RIDESON
41A “I’ve seen better” Crossword Clue
MEH
42A Attend without a Crossword Clue
GOSTAG
44A Sound in polka Crossword Clue
OOMPAH
46A Strategic disk game played on a vertical Crossword Clue
CONNECTFOUR
50A Music genre for James Crossword Clue
FUNK
51A Device once used with a Blockbuster Crossword Clue
VCR
52A Mission-driven grps., Crossword Clue
NGOS
54A “___ you listening?” Crossword Clue
ARE
55A Who said “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” Crossword Clue
JESUS
57A May Crossword Clue
MOM
59A Animal with a “mask” Crossword Clue
RACCOON
62A A step above Crossword Clue
SEMIPRO
65A P Crossword Clue
INASNIT
66A Like italic Crossword Clue
SLANTED
67A With 68-Across, posable plaything … or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46- Crossword Clue
ACTION
68A See 67- Crossword Clue
FIGURE
Down
1D Is released, as an Crossword Clue
DROPS
2D Currency in Crossword Clue
RUPEE
3D Clarifying Crossword Clue
IMEAN
4D Interception returned for a Crossword Clue
PICKSIX
5D Start of the workweek: Abbr. Crossword Clue
MON
6D Saw in one’s mind’s Crossword Clue
IMAGINED
7D Break for a few Crossword Clue
TAKEFIVE
8D Newspaper in New York, L.A. or Seattle, Crossword Clue
THETIMES
9D Bummed Crossword Clue
SAD
10D Surf with one’s toes off the front of the Crossword Clue
HANGTEN
11D What an electric meter Crossword Clue
USAGE
12D Cut Crossword Clue
SEVER
13D Joseph called “Father of the Symphony” Crossword Clue
HAYDN
21D Coin dated with the year of its country’s imperial Crossword Clue
YEN
23D Latin “is” Crossword Clue
EST
28D Put in a Crossword Clue
ALIGN
29D U Crossword Clue
ALOOF
30D Newsstand purchase, Crossword Clue
MAG
31D In the Crossword Clue
AGO
32D Feline adoption Crossword Clue
RESCUECAT
35D Spur-of-the- Crossword Clue
IMPROMPTU
36D Arthur of “The Golden Girls” Crossword Clue
BEA
37D “Zip it!” Crossword Clue
SHH
39D Place in a Crossword Clue
RANK
40D Midnight’s Crossword Clue
NOON
43D Suffix in the names of many U.S. Crossword Clue
TON
45D Starbucks keepsake, Crossword Clue
MUG
47D Hurdles or high jump, e.g. Crossword Clue
EVENT
48D Loops in, Crossword Clue
CCS
49D Secure Crossword Clue
TRUSS
50D Swiss Crossword Clue
FRANC
53D How you may feel after a workout vis-à-vis Crossword Clue
SORER
54D Operatic Crossword Clue
ARIA
55D Become a member Crossword Clue
JOIN
56D Subject of Crossword Clue
SELF
58D Preset camera Crossword Clue
MODE
60D ___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries’ expectations for forensics) Crossword Clue
CSI
61D Yoko who participated in a bed- Crossword Clue
ONO
63D ___ Crossword Clue
MAI
64D Bank with a lion in its Crossword Clue
ING

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