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NYT Crossword — October 30, 2026

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

35 clues

12019 film co-starring Taylor Swift as Bombalurina

5Like many fringe festival acts

9Logic components in electric circuits

14Travel lead-in to "méxico"

17Invented something, say

18Aid in evaluating some calls

20It's been a long time

21"Didn't we just say goodbye?"

22Trees whose nuts and leaves are toxic to humans

24Unrestricted, in a way, in brief

25___ teeth (proverbial rarity)

26Running things

30Like the ingredients in a French chef's mirepoix

32Classic potluck dish

35Tony-winning actress Stroker

36Unmanned NASA craft

37Places for intertidal ecosystems

39Bass drum attachment

40Result of keeping a lid on too long?

41Push-up targets, informally

42Sites with clamps and curettes, for short

43Screens that stream

47"Hole-sale" outlets?

50"___ Short Day" ("Wicked" song)

51Lodging option for a trip with extended family

52Eye part whose name shares the same etymological root as a throat part

54"Happier Than ___" (Billie Eilish hit)

55They've split

56Targets of some Audubon cameras

Down

35 clues

1First name that contains four of the first five letters of the alphabet

2Macronutrient group?

3Cover-up in an old detective film?

5Pieces of writing from the French for "try"

6Opposite of agitato, in music

7Grasps, informally

8Some hedge shrubs

9They're at least 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce

10Common fix for a prolbem?

11Alvin and the Chipmunks, e.g.

12The Kynge's College of Our Ladye of ___ besyde Windesore

13Grp. of nine, divided in three?

19Juliet, Ophelia and Desdemona, to an astronomer

21Take some liberties

23Monitors for accuracy, just because

26Goddess referenced in "Aida"

27Cordless heaters that you might order cords for?

28Third-largest of Italy's islands, after Sicily and Sardinia

29It might wind up near a tackle box

30Colon replacement

32Part of a hand

33Brewer's barrelful

38Ovens for hops

41Pentagon ___ (subject of a 1971 Supreme Court ruling)

43Hindu god with three eyes

44Specks of dust

45Kind of sweater

46Parking spots?

48Eponym of the company that marketed the first escalator

49Doesn't settle, say

51World's largest ethnic group

52Land that goes from coast to coast, in brief

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Stats & info

Friday, Oct 30, 2026

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.5

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedOct 30, 2026

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorRobyn Weintraub and Rafael Musa

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split35 across · 35 down

Longest entries

9DThey're at least 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce12 ltrs 21DTake some liberties12 ltrs 10DCommon fix for a prolbem?11 ltrs 23DMonitors for accuracy, just because11 ltrs 18AAid in evaluating some calls10 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.5 letters per entry.