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NYT Crossword — November 1, 2026

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 136 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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65 clues

1This puzzle's subject

7One of the Three Musketeers

12Repeated words in the chorus of "Sweet Child o' Mine"

15Sidewalk adjoiner

19Alternative to Parmesan

21Piece of pet furniture

23Member of the largest contiguous empire in history

24What might be pulled when pulling one's leg, informally

25Heat, as peanuts

26Roald Dahl title character who subsists on "snozzcumbers," with "the"

27How one might feel after a big meal

29Like a juicy fruit

30Appetizers, entree or dessert

36Lead-in to coin

39Lacking excess

40Streaming channel?

41___ Vista, Calif.

42Handed out new hands

46Not as straight, as hair

49Only cardinal direction not found in a U.S. state name

54Composer Zimmer

55Herbal sugar substitute

58Titular fictional heroine from the Alps

59Payment inits. found in "debt-free"

60Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir, in myth

61Modern moviemaking tech

63Burton who hosted PBS's "Reading Rainbow"

66Court defense

69Slingshot ammo

71Rome's ___ Fountain

72Kidney-related

73Greek goddess whose chariot is pulled by Firebright and Daybright

74County north of San Francisco

75Wyo. neighbor

76Most overdone

82It's not a big dill

87Venomous snake

92Feline with distinctive blue eyes

94Like a 1958 doubled die penny

95Steady, low sounds

97Caesar's years

98Opposite of sharpen

103Versace's parent company

105Soccer star Messi

106Opposite of menos, in Spanish

113Beethoven work originally titled "Bonaparte"

116Vague response to "When?"

117No fan of company

118In an unpleasant way

120Number of legs on a butterfly

122Its famous holes are formed by propionibacteria

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71 clues

1Sweet and gentle sort

3Play using all seven tiles in Scrabble

4It's used over the counter

8Casts a wide net?

10"When I say 'go' ..."

11"The Brain — is wider than the ___": Dickinson

12Condition that may be treated with C.B.T.

13Angelic instruments

14Taylor Swift hit with the lyric "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye"

15Unit in the game Clue

16"Well, the good thing is ..."

17They might be targeted

18Symbol for a stop on a subway map

22Wine label word

31"___ your heart!"

32Mariners' domain

33Source of wealth for John D. Rockefeller

34Alma mater of Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe, in brief

35Collect, as rewards

38Locales of tiny drums

43Give permission to

44"I'm still talking!"

46Like the hours before dawn

50Short arguments

51Kelly Ripa or Jimmy Kimmel

53Pride of Punxsutawney

56Ammonium or sulfate

57Spot for sports

61Pitch raisers for guitarists

62Menacing look

65Sirloin alternative

67Many a shipwreck site

68"Looks good to me," tersely

77"___ the season …"

79Parting words to a driver leaving in a storm

80Like jellyfish … but not books about jellyfish?

83Recover from injury

87Cable channel that awards V.M.A.s

88Common poke ingredient

89"___ Doubtfire"

90Take further than one's predecessors

91Peaceful kind of music

96Calculus calculations

99Golden Globe winner Elba

100Grand Slam tournament winner Osaka

101What a ticket gets you

102Islamic rulers

104"Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": George Bernard Shaw

107Oft-torn body parts, in brief

109Computer cable type

111Cowboy nickname

112Carte preceder

115Opposite of non

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Stats & info

Sunday, Nov 1, 2026

21×21

Grid size

136

Total entries

88/353

Black / letter cells

5.3

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedNov 1, 2026

DaySunday

ThemeBe Amazed

ConstructorKevin Curry and Zhou Zhang

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split65 across · 71 down

Longest entries

16D"Well, the good thing is ..."15 ltrs 44D"I'm still talking!"15 ltrs 30AAppetizers, entree or dessert14 ltrs 99AOut of sight14 ltrs 122AIts famous holes are formed by propionibacteria11 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 88 black squares and averages 5.3 letters per entry.