Crossword Answers for October 16, 2026 – Solve Every Clue Fast

Friday, October 16, 2026 — verified Across & Down clues

29 Across · 39 Down


Across
1A Word with strip or Crossword Clue
STEAK
6A C Crossword Clue
FIT
9A Cuban poet/philosopher José Crossword Clue
MARTI
14A 2000 hit song with the lyric “But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me” Crossword Clue
OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
17A Mail-centric fiction? Crossword Clue
EPISTOLARYNOVEL
18A Virginia is in it, in Crossword Clue
ACC
19A “Hah!” Crossword Clue
SOTHERE
20A “___ had it!” Crossword Clue
IVE
21A Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Crossword Clue
SHEA
23A “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Crossword Clue
RHODA
24A R Crossword Clue
HOOT
25A Spiller of Crossword Clue
YENTA
27A Smelling things? Crossword Clue
SALTS
28A Date night viewing, Crossword Clue
FEELGOODMOVIE
34A High concept? Crossword Clue
CLOUDNINE
35A They explain what’s in the Crossword Clue
TAROTREADINGS
39A Comic strip sound of Crossword Clue
KAPOW
40A Infant Crossword Clue
COLIC
42A Battery-powered string instrument Crossword Clue
EBOW
43A P Crossword Clue
BASED
48A It has its highs and Crossword Clue
TIDE
49A Rocky openings? Crossword Clue
YOS
50A Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other Crossword Clue
MOLERAT
52A It may begin with a +1: Abbr. Crossword Clue
TEL
53A I Crossword Clue
PUTSONAPEDESTAL
56A Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g. Crossword Clue
ALLAMERICANHERO
57A Losing causes? Crossword Clue
DIETS
58A Yoga ___ Crossword Clue
MAT
59A The 22nd Amendment limits Crossword Clue
TERMS
Down
1D “Piece of cake!” Crossword Clue
SOEASY
2D Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge’s Crossword Clue
TOPCHEF
3D Not Crossword Clue
EPICENE
4D D Crossword Clue
ASS
5D Some emergency Crossword Clue
KITS
6D Serious Crossword Clue
FILTH
7D State whose official fruit is the Crossword Clue
IDAHO
8D Done to Crossword Clue
TIRED
9D Flow down the Crossword Clue
MANE
10D Past Crossword Clue
AGO
11D Hot pockets? Crossword Clue
RAVIOLI
12D 20-20, e.g. Crossword Clue
TIEVOTE
13D Small Crossword Clue
INLETS
15D One of 412 in the White Crossword Clue
DOOR
16D Supermodel Crossword Clue
TYRA
22D Took back one’s Crossword Clue
ATECROW
24D One struggling to make ends Crossword Clue
HAVENOT
26D G Crossword Clue
ALLOW
27D Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video Crossword Clue
SONIC
29D P Crossword Clue
GOT
30D “___ Share of Night” (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book) Crossword Clue
OUR
31D Complimentary Crossword Clue
ODE
32D Tool for tracing family Crossword Clue
DNA
33D Prefix with the name of any Crossword Clue
MID
35D Mideast salad, in one Crossword Clue
TABOULI
36D Simon the Zealot, e.g. Crossword Clue
APOSTLE
37D Sparkly bits in a school art Crossword Clue
GLITTER
38D Like some Crossword Clue
SIDEARM
39D Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0 Crossword Clue
KEYPAD
41D Stage-left orchestra Crossword Clue
CELLOS
43D Coccyx or phalange, e.g. Crossword Clue
BONE
44D Unwelcome sound during a Crossword Clue
ALARM
45D Brown Crossword Clue
SEPIA
46D C Crossword Clue
ERECT
47D Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 Crossword Clue
DADA
50D May Crossword Clue
MOMS
51D Outdoor item with Crossword Clue
TENT
54D Took a load Crossword Clue
SAT
55D 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Crossword Clue
SHE

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October 16, 2026

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