Our NYT Crossword Hints for October 8, 2023 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a clue. The NYT Crossword is a daily crossword that tests solvers’ knowledge and vocabulary. It’s one of the most popular crosswords in the world, known for its challenging clues and clever wordplay. The puzzle is published in the print edition of the paper and is also available online.
NYT Crossword Hints, October 8, 2023
You’ll find hints for all of the crossword clues for the NYT Crossword on 10/8/23. The clues are listed below, and you can click/tap on a clue to go to its page for more detail, including definitions, but if you don’t want to be immediately spoiled, you can reveal letter by letter to still offer yourself more of a challenge before revealing the full solution.
- Somewhat
- Tuna variety
- IPhone charger?
- Snacked on
- "Wouldn't do that if I were you"
- Sees red?
- Librarian's offering
- Word with cable or company
- Boast
- End of some student accounts
- Fish whose blood is poisonous to humans
- Many a homework assignment
- Honkers
- Serengeti grazer
- Varieties of roles, metaphorically
- Festival whose celebrants throw multihued powders
- 2022 Super Bowl champ, informally
- Shortening in the kitchen
- TV patriarch Stark
- It has 45 keys
- "Havana" co-star Lena
- Ancient inhabitants of modern-day Tabasco
- Stackable treat
- Lacking
- "Super" group
- "Angel dust"
- Hardly careful
- Author Santha Rama ___
- Stat for a cleanup hitter
- Home makeover, informally
- Purge
- Small stream
- Connectors in K'Nex
- Speculative genre
- Game in which one player tries to glean information from the other players without being caught
- Fig. created by F.D.R.'s New Deal
- Great Basin people
- Sweater style
- Very eager
- The "A" of S.A.T.B.
- Pen pal from Paris, perhaps
- Verb that sounds like a letter
- Middle of many similes
- Urgently
- Latin greeting
- Not as likely to run away
- Port city in Normandy
- Protein source in vegan cheese
- Nasdaq listing: Abbr.
- Skill practiced on a manikin, for short
- Ruckus
- Enjoyed a fancy meal
- "Für ___"
- Its academic year consists of three terms called "halves"
- Film enthusiast's creative reinterpretation
- Tire
- Most open
- Content
- Journalist Ifill
- Limelight hog
- What's-___-name
- Danish shoe designer Jacobsen
- 'You can't make me!'
- Stays inconspicuous
- Parts of many oak leaves
- Sluggish
- Big D pro
- Small
- Home to the Reef Runway, the first major airport runway built completely offshore
- "___ to a Koala Bear" (Paul McCartney song)
- Football star ___ Beckham Jr.
- Abso-freakin'-lutely!
- 'Newshour' airer
- "Oppenheimer" actor Malek
- Fix
- Certain chemical reaction
- Yahtzee action
- Spanish chess piece
- Spawn in water
- Side splitting?
- Title with a tilde
- Cubes, e.g.
- Florida university named after a pope, for short
- Many discussion section leaders, in brief
- Football stat, in brief
- Attach, as ribbons
- Doofuses
- "Sup, man!"
- Lots of land
- Hunk
- Magazine "filler"
- Oil-rich peninsula
- The Wright stuff?
- This and that
- Animals with tusks
- Subjects of some political scandals
- Baking aisle purchase exemplified by 56-Across
- Do a restaurant job
- Bean plant harvested for its sweet pulp
- One of three spaces on a Monopoly board
- Muchachas
- Interesting person ... or what's included, phonetically, five times in this puzzle
- Windshield setting
- Self-examining question
- Like a bunny slope vis-à-vis a black diamond run
- Bit of rainy-day footwear
- Special moment exemplified by 24-Across
- Thanksgiving table sights exemplified by 68-Across
- Spoils of a shopping spree
- Short-story collection that raised early questions on machine ethics
- What's the holdup?
- Floral adornment
- Some coffee shop orders
- Clumsy
- "In the ___ days …"
- Arrival
- Pro tennis period since 1968
- Prefix with -lithic
- Blanches
- Agreement exemplified by 88-Across
- Sister-to-be, say
- Milieu for much Top 40 music
- Director Sam
- Band whose original members were Joey, Johnny, Tommy and Dee Dee
- Air travel option exemplified by 34-Across
- A real head-turner?
- Do over, as a bathroom floor
- Goes all over
- "Breaking Bad" role
- Gets the picture
- Wrap (up)
- Bundle
- Soft mineral
- State whose last four letters are the first four letters of its capital
- Containers
- Auto washing aid
- Talk And Talk
- Cried out in pain
We also recommend trying your hand at the NYT Mini Crossword, which is definitely easier (on all days!) as it is a 5×5, compared to the full-sized crossword (which is 15×15, and the Sunday edition is 21×21!). New crosswords are released at 10PM ET on weekdays and 6PM ET on weekends.
The New York Times crossword was first published in The New York Times in 1942 and has been a daily feature ever since. It is known for its high level of difficulty and for its clever, often playful, clues and themes. The puzzles range in size from 15x15 grids on weekdays to larger 21x21 grids on Sundays, with varying levels of difficulty.
The New York Times crossword is created by a team of skilled puzzle constructors and editors, who work to ensure that each puzzle is both entertaining and challenging for solvers. The puzzles are often themed, with clues and answers related to a particular subject or concept, and they frequently feature wordplay and puns.
Solving the New York Times crossword has become a beloved pastime for many, and there are even competitions and clubs devoted to crossword puzzle solving. The New York Times crossword is available in print in the newspaper and online, and it has a dedicated following of loyal solvers who eagerly await each day's puzzle.
If you’re still struggling to solve your NYT crosswords, consider practicing with the Eugene Sheffer and Thomas Joseph dailies first. If you’re looking for similarly challenging crosswords, we recommend the WSJ Crossword and LA Times Crossword.
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