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NYT Crossword Answers for November 3, 2026

Crossword #12,036Tuesday, November 3, 2026

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Puzzle #12,036

Across

  1. 1Component of many a science course (3)Show answer
  2. 4Butter up? (5)Show answer
  3. 9Visual effect for a sports replay, maybe (5)Show answer
  4. 14Good "Wheel of Fortune" purchase for "M_SS_SS_PP_" (3)Show answer
  5. 15Food Network host Brown (5)Show answer
  6. 16Maker of Instamatic cameras (5)Show answer
  7. 17Sheepskin boot brand from Australia (3)Show answer
  8. 18Michael Jordan and Anatole France? (11)Show answer
  9. 20Chided (7)Show answer
  10. 22Get closer to being picked, say (5)Show answer
  11. 23Justice Kagan (5)Show answer
  12. 24Le Pew who could rightfully ask "Ain't I a stinker?" (4)Show answer
  13. 25Take home (3)Show answer
  14. 28Faith Hill and Sally Field? (10)Show answer
  15. 31Heckle (4)Show answer
  16. 32Foreign (5)Show answer
  17. 33In all respects (5)Show answer
  18. 34Jenny Slate and Emma Stone? (13)Show answer
  19. 38Cyrus who played Hannah Montana (5)Show answer
  20. 39All choked up, say (5)Show answer
  21. 40Slightly (4)Show answer
  22. 41John Snow and Robert Frost? (10)Show answer
  23. 46Muscle that's a neighbor of a delt (3)Show answer
  24. 47Pirates' environs (4)Show answer
  25. 48Feudal lord (5)Show answer
  26. 49Merger site? (5)Show answer
  27. 51X-ray machines, e.g. (7)Show answer
  28. 53Sabrina Carpenter and Anita Baker? (11)Show answer
  29. 56Vietnamese New Year (3)Show answer
  30. 57Like kegged brews (5)Show answer
  31. 58Ridiculous (5)Show answer
  32. 59Slayed, in slang (3)Show answer
  33. 60Paradises (5)Show answer
  34. 61Homo, for humans (5)Show answer
  35. 62Bag checkers, in brief (3)Show answer

Down

  1. 1Classical victory wreath (6)Show answer
  2. 2Oscar's deskmate on "The Office" (6)Show answer
  3. 3London toller (6)Show answer
  4. 4Locale for some shady deals (9)Show answer
  5. 5Soothing balm (4)Show answer
  6. 6Lego brick protrusion (4)Show answer
  7. 7"Short" or "long" unit (3)Show answer
  8. 8Main thing to order (6)Show answer
  9. 9Popularizer of videotelephony (5)Show answer
  10. 10Piece of mind? (4)Show answer
  11. 11Comedian Rosie (8)Show answer
  12. 12Word before Day, Queen or I? (3)Show answer
  13. 13Green-lights (3)Show answer
  14. 19Yanks (off) (4)Show answer
  15. 21Lacking a timestamp (7)Show answer
  16. 24Candy wrappers? (7)Show answer
  17. 26Congers and morays (4)Show answer
  18. 27Handle, as a court case (3)Show answer
  19. 29Put on TV (3)Show answer
  20. 30Opus ___ (3)Show answer
  21. 31Set up as MacGyver might (7)Show answer
  22. 33No-parking areas in front of buildings (9)Show answer
  23. 34Smidgen (4)Show answer
  24. 35Individually, in a way (8)Show answer
  25. 36Court redo (3)Show answer
  26. 37"I'm so frustrated!" (3)Show answer
  27. 38Information kiosk handout (3)Show answer
  28. 41Have on (4)Show answer
  29. 42Pincered bug (6)Show answer
  30. 43Use as a rendezvous point (6)Show answer
  31. 44Wetland waders (6)Show answer
  32. 45Lipton rival (6)Show answer
  33. 47Instructions (5)Show answer
  34. 50Low-fat (4)Show answer
  35. 51Marvel actress Vellani (4)Show answer
  36. 52A modern one might be viewable via a QR code (4)Show answer
  37. 53Iowa college (3)Show answer
  38. 54Operator in Boolean logic (3)Show answer
  39. 55Number of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still exist (3)Show answer

Previous Day’s Crossword Answers

Crossword #12,035, November 2, 2026.

November 2026 1 puzzle

  • Mon 2 #12,035

    1. 1AAcross: Gender-neutral pronoun (4)
    2. 5AAcross: Slips a card up one's sleeve, say (6)
    3. 11AAcross: Org. that now offers merit badges in Kayaking and Nuclear Science (3)
    4. 14AAcross: Mammoth (4)
    5. 15AAcross: Portable computer (6)
    6. 16AAcross: And so on and so on: Abbr. (3)
    7. 17AAcross: Activity that helps one release pent-up feelings (15)
    8. 20AAcross: Started, as a new field of interest (7)
    9. 21AAcross: "Received and understood," in radio lingo (5)
    10. 22AAcross: Hockey legend Bobby of the Boston Bruins (3)
    11. 23AAcross: Hexagonal mesh used to fence in poultry (11)
    12. 27AAcross: Pals in Paris (4)
    13. 29AAcross: Blackjack play (3)
    14. 30AAcross: Takes to court (4)
    15. 31AAcross: Lukewarm, as support (5)
    16. 33AAcross: You cannot get them from frogs, contrary to popular myth (5)
    17. 35AAcross: Workers in E.R.s and I.C.U.s (3)
    18. 36AAcross: Early bloomer? (9)
    19. 39AAcross: "In ___ We Trust" (3)
    20. 42AAcross: Like an untouched attic (5)
    21. 43AAcross: Starches and sugars as sources of energy, informally (5)
    22. 47AAcross: Drug you can trip on (4)
    23. 49AAcross: Spike who directed "Do the Right Thing" (3)
    24. 50AAcross: Where heroes are made? (4)
    25. 51AAcross: Be up-to-date with the news (11)
    26. 56AAcross: What a successful party is (3)
    27. 57AAcross: More ashen (5)
    28. 58AAcross: Olympians wearing red, white and blue (7)
    29. 60AAcross: "It all makes sense now!" … or what you may exclaim after combining the ends of 17-, 23-, 36- and 51-Across? (15)
    30. 64AAcross: Muscle used in a dumbbell bench press, informally (3)
    31. 65AAcross: Self-proclaimed (6)
    32. 66AAcross: Stags, does and fawns (4)
    33. 67AAcross: D.C. winter hours (3)
    34. 68AAcross: The "M" in RAM (6)
    35. 69AAcross: "Insecure" co-creator and star ___ Rae (4)
    36. 1DDown: Highest-caliber athlete, to fans (7)
    37. 2DDown: "Follow my train of thinking, OK?!" (7)
    38. 3DDown: Self-aggrandizing endeavor (7)
    39. 4DDown: Mountain cryptid whose name inspired a water-bottle brand (4)
    40. 5DDown: Cotton or silk (5)
    41. 6DDown: Capital of Vietnam (5)
    42. 7DDown: Clean energy org. established by President Nixon (3)
    43. 8DDown: Code of the world's busiest airport (3)
    44. 9DDown: "___ soon?" (3)
    45. 10DDown: Jilt (5)
    46. 11DDown: Brussels is its capital (7)
    47. 12DDown: Had the wheel (7)
    48. 13DDown: Sigourney Weaver, but not Dennis Weaver (7)
    49. 18DDown: "Monsters, ___" (3)
    50. 19DDown: Tugboat tasks (4)
    51. 24DDown: Unit of a national sorority or fraternity (7)
    52. 25DDown: Puffy, pink protagonist of Nintendo fame (5)
    53. 26DDown: "___ Brute?" (Caesar's query) (4)
    54. 28DDown: Take a chair (3)
    55. 32DDown: Clunker (3)
    56. 33DDown: More sagacious (5)
    57. 34DDown: Capital of Utah, in brief (3)
    58. 37DDown: Lead-in to "lemon," in a high-end athleisure brand (4)
    59. 38DDown: Word before dog or Bunny (3)
    60. 39DDown: Home installation providing propane to a grill or fireplace (7)
    61. 40DDown: A professional singer can usually cover more than one of these (7)
    62. 41DDown: Patois or Cajun (7)
    63. 44DDown: Sanctuaries (7)
    64. 45DDown: Gets pink in the face, say (7)
    65. 46DDown: Nine-time Grammy winner Frank (7)
    66. 48DDown: These can be made with turmeric or saffron (4)
    67. 52DDown: It may be added to coffee or corn (5)
    68. 53DDown: Upper regions of the sky, poetically (5)
    69. 54DDown: Impoverished (5)
    70. 55DDown: "Qué ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish) (3)
    71. 59DDown: Dress length that reaches the calf (4)
    72. 61DDown: Adam's madam (3)
    73. 62DDown: Consideration for an Oscar, informally (3)
    74. 63DDown: Number of points for a basket (3)

Today’s Crossword answers

NYT Crossword #12,036 for Tuesday, November 3, 2026: a 15 by 15 grid with 74 clues, 35 across and 39 down, and answers 3 to 13 letters long. Tuesday’s Crossword is a step harder than Monday’s, and each answer stays hidden above until you ask.

How the daily crossword works

The New York Times crossword is a new grid every day: fifteen squares by fifteen from Monday to Saturday, and a larger twenty-one by twenty-one on Sunday. Across answers read left to right and down answers read top to bottom, and each answer shares letters with the ones that cross it. The puzzle gets harder through the week, from easiest on Monday to hardest on Saturday, and the big Sunday puzzle is about as hard as a Thursday.

How to use this page

Under the heading are the day’s across and down clues, each with the number of letters in its answer in brackets. Choose Show answer, or the clue itself, to open that clue’s own page. There the answer is hidden behind blank tiles: choose a tile to see just that letter, or reveal the whole answer. When an answer has a rebus square, which holds several letters, its tile shows them all.

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Getting unstuck

Start with the clues you can answer without a doubt, such as fill-in-the-blanks and short abbreviations, then use the crossing letters for the rest. A Thursday puzzle often has a trick, such as a rebus or a theme that breaks a rule, so when an answer will not fit, think about the clue’s wordplay. Showing a single answer is a good way to see the trick without giving up the whole grid.