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TODAY SATURDAY · 13 x 13 GRID · 66 CLUES · 32 ACROSS · 34 DOWN

Daily Themed Crossword October 3 2026 Answers

Below is the full clue list for the October 3, 2026 puzzle with the solution beside every clue, followed by the completed grid. Tap a clue to see its letter count and every other puzzle it has appeared in.

66 of 66 clues Solved grid ↓
Across
1A Historical period ERA 3 4A Mississippi ___ pie (chocolate-based dessert) MUD 3 7A It's smaller than a city TOWN 4 11A Pen ___ (long-distance friend) PAL 3 12A Suspicious and on guard (rhymes with "fairy") WARY 4 13A "___-hoo!" (rhyming cry of delight) WHOO 4 14A Sue Grafton's "___ for Innocent": 2 wds. IIS 3 15A Teenager's skin trouble ACNE 4 16A Flapjack breakfast chain: Abbr. IHOP 4 17A (1/7) *Triiing* You reach to snooze your phone alarm, but instead there's an alarm ___ rattling you awake. Something's wrong. CLOCK 5 19A Nitrous ___ (laughing gas) OXIDE 5 20A Animal that goes "pop!" in a nursery rhyme WEASEL 6 24A Deli jarful MAYO 4 27A (2/7) This isn't your room. Panic sets in. You need the date, but there is no phone in sight. You spot a ___ on the wall and gasp: it's 1985! CALENDAR 8 32A "Are you vegan ___ meat-eater?": 2 wds. ORA 3 33A "___ be okay" ("Don't worry") ITLL 4 34A "I shouldn't have done that!" exclamation OOPS 4 35A (3/7) You run into the hallway, desperate to find where you are. Rummaging in drawers, you find a crumpled paper ___. You're in New Jersey! MAP 3 36A "___ man walks into the bar ...": 2 wds. SOA 3 37A Chooses, with "for" OPTS 4 38A (4/7) Hands shaking, you hunt for a phone. Finally, you find one, but it's a rotary ___, heavy and fixed to the wall with a spiral cord. LANDLINE 8 41A Supermodel ___ Carangi GIA 3 42A "It's of no ___!" ("This is pointless!") USE 3 43A Justin Timberlake's boy band NSYNC 5 45A Reply to a question, for short ANS 3 46A Stack of cash WAD 3 49A (5/7) You hear a ___ drifting from another room. Expecting a speaker, you find a dusty, old record player, its tune hauntingly familiar. SONG 4 50A Prefix with "puncture" ACU 3 51A Inflated sense of self EGO 3 52A "Peek-___!" (game with a toddler): Hyph. ABOO 4 53A "___ Loves You," hit single by The Beatles SHE 3 54A Arrow's partner BOW 3
Down
1D Heroic narrative like "The Odyssey," e.g. EPIC 4 2D Tram track part RAIL 4 3D "One more thing ..." ALSO 4 4D McDonald's Big ___ (burger) MAC 3 5D Vessel used to hold ashes URN 3 6D Colorant that can turn your hair purple DYE 3 7D Caramel-coated Mars bar TWIX 4 8D "___! I wasn't expecting you!": 2 wds. OHHI 4 9D (6/7) You shiver, instinctively searching for a thermostat. Instead, you find an empty fireplace with a pile of ___ and a box of matches. WOOD 4 10D "Yep" counterpart NOPE 4 12D (7/7) You hear a faint ringing. You chase it from room to room, until ... you ___ up to your phone blaring by your bed, back to the present! WAKE 4 18D U.S. Navy rank (anagram of "cow"): Abbr. CWO 3 19D The Grand ___ Opry OLE 3 21D "Lawyers ___ behalf of their clients": 2 wds. ACTON 5 22D Something that might be tossed and dressed SALAD 5 23D Right-angled tetris shape ELL 3 24D Soccer ___ (partner to 47a) MOM 3 25D Palindromic constellation name ARA 3 26D Talk non-stop (rhymes with "tap") YAP 3 28D "In space, ___ can hear you scream" (advertising tagline for "Alien"): 2 wds. NOONE 5 29D Pretty cool, slangily (rhymes with "rope") DOPE 4 30D Like a befitting reply APT 3 31D Blog feed format: Abbr. RSS 3 33D Newton who discovered gravity ISAAC 5 38D Local dialect or jargon LINGO 5 39D Meal to "do" LUNCH 5 40D Comic book series installment ISSUE 5 41D Women's health specialist, informally GYNO 4 43D U.S. surveillance group: Abbr. NSA 3 44D Kind of story SOB 3 45D Small-size batteries AAS 3 46D "___ Therapy," comedy series starring David Schwimmer as Newell Miller WEB 3 47D In the bygone days AGO 3 48D ___ Jones & Company (publishing firm) DOW 3
Solved grid13 x 13 · 126 letters
1E
2R
3A
4M
5U
6D
7T
8O
9W
10N
11P
A
L
12W
A
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Y
13W
H
O
O
14I
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15A
C
N
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16I
H
O
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17C
L
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18C
K
19O
X
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D
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20W
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21A
22S
23E
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24M
25A
26Y
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27C
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28N
29D
30A
31R
32O
R
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33I
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34O
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35M
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36S
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37O
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38L
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39L
40I
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41G
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42U
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43N
44S
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45A
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46W
47A
48D
49S
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50A
C
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51E
G
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52A
B
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53S
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54B
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The completed 13 x 13 grid for October 3, 2026. Numbers mark where each across and down answer begins.

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About the October 3, 2026 puzzle

The October 3, 2026 Daily Themed Crossword is a 13 x 13 grid with 66 clues — 32 across and 34 down. Puzzles tend to get harder as the week progresses, so a Saturday grid sits where you would expect it in that run.

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