Daily Themed Crossword October 9, 2022 Answers
Every clue and answer from the October 9, 2022 grid, in puzzle order.
October 9, 2022 — All 67 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | The Tonight ___ Starring Johnny Carson | Show answer | 4 | |
| #2 | Karaoke night need for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | How're things going? slangily | Show answer | 3 | |
| #4 | Star Wars princess with an iconic hairdo | Show answer | 4 | |
| #5 | Once ___ a time... | Show answer | 4 | |
| #6 | Bard's before | Show answer | 3 | |
| #7 | First O in YOLO | Show answer | 4 | |
| #8 | Like a pathetic excuse | Show answer | 4 | |
| #9 | Id's psyche companion | Show answer | 3 | |
| #10 | Organization with slam dunks: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #11 | John ___ American football coach who led the Oakland Raiders to their first Super Bowl title | Show answer | 6 | |
| #12 | John ___ American author and YouTuber who wrote the best-selling novel Paper Towns | Show answer | 5 | |
| #13 | Month before May for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #14 | Sound from a pigeon nest | Show answer | 3 | |
| #15 | Say All in at the poker table say | Show answer | 3 | |
| #16 | Slithery danger along the Nile | Show answer | 3 | |
| #17 | Celestial sphere | Show answer | 3 | |
| #18 | Thread's target through a needle | Show answer | 3 | |
| #19 | To ___ it may concern... | Show answer | 4 | |
| #20 | Hot follower to mean a disaster | Show answer | 4 | |
| #21 | Super ___ (Nintendo relic): Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #22 | President Eisenhower lovingly | Show answer | 3 | |
| #23 | Moo goo ___ pan (Chinese-American dish) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #24 | John ___ American singer-songwriter who sang Take Me Home Country Roads | Show answer | 6 | |
| #25 | John ___ English poet who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost | Show answer | 6 | |
| #26 | ___ Believer song covered by Smash Mouth: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #27 | Spanish for gold | Show answer | 3 | |
| #28 | John ___ American actor known for playing Jim Halpert in The Office | Show answer | 9 | |
| #29 | The N in NCO | Show answer | 3 | |
| #30 | Punk rock's genre | Show answer | 3 | |
| #31 | Elegantly fashionable | Show answer | 4 | |
| #32 | Lee who directed Ride With The Devil | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | Loud racket | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | Tug violently | Show answer | 4 | |
| #35 | ___-mo replay | Show answer | 3 | |
| #36 | Rooster's roomie perhaps | Show answer | 3 | |
| #37 | What an air fryer doesn't need | Show answer | 3 | |
| #38 | John ___ American actor known for playing Reuben J. Cogburn in the 1969 film True Grit | Show answer | 5 | |
| #39 | John ___ American stand-up comedian and actor who was a writer for Saturday Night Live | Show answer | 7 | |
| #40 | Letters on a hoppy bottle | Show answer | 3 | |
| #41 | List-dividing punctuation | Show answer | 5 | |
| #42 | Tree-to-be | Show answer | 4 | |
| #43 | Overriding craving | Show answer | 4 | |
| #44 | Office assistant | Show answer | 4 | |
| #45 | Tide whose high is close to its low | Show answer | 4 | |
| #46 | In the Name of Love artist Rexha | Show answer | 4 | |
| #47 | Doodle a bit say | Show answer | 4 | |
| #48 | Al ___ former U.S. vice president | Show answer | 4 | |
| #49 | Rips off a customer say | Show answer | 4 | |
| #50 | Follower of sit or rom in Hollywood | Show answer | 3 | |
| #51 | Two hours before midnight | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | Orange is the New Black weapon | Show answer | 4 | |
| #53 | Prod with one's finger | Show answer | 4 | |
| #54 | Sea on a French beach | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | Pepper in a Beatles' album title | Show answer | 3 | |
| #56 | Thomas Alva ___ famed inventor | Show answer | 6 | |
| #57 | Prefix with circle or solid | Show answer | 4 | |
| #58 | All good! to Neil Armstrong: Hyph. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #59 | The Woman ___ 1984 film starring Gene Wilder: 2 wds. | Show answer | 5 | |
| #60 | Actress Carell of SNL | Show answer | 5 | |
| #61 | Lisa who lives at the Louvre | Show answer | 4 | |
| #62 | Rust's victim | Show answer | 4 | |
| #63 | ___ John Silver (Treasure Island character) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #64 | How many fingers ___ holding up?: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #65 | Manfred Mann's ___ La La | Show answer | 3 | |
| #66 | Kith's go-with | Show answer | 3 | |
| #67 | Ugh this is so gross! | Show answer | 3 |
How the October 9, 2022 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for October 9, 2022, a Sunday. It contains 67 clues, which is a little above the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is KRASINSKI at 9 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 2 clues are flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out, and 3 clues carry a "wds." flag, so the answer runs several words together with no spaces. Those markers are reliable in this game and are the quickest way to fix a letter count before you commit to an entry.
Neighbouring dates are linked above, and the 2022 archive holds every daily puzzle from that year. There is also a mini crossword for October 9, 2022 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
October 9, 2022 — Questions
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3 Tips for the October 9, 2022 Crossword
The theme is a clue in itself
Daily Themed Crossword builds each board around one idea, and the themed entries are usually the longest answers on the grid. This board carries 67 clues with answers from 3 to 9 letters — work out what the long ones have in common and the rest of the grid opens up around them.
Short fills are where the crossings come from
Three- and four-letter answers are the cheapest squares on the board and they feed letters into every long entry they touch. When a themed answer will not come, fill the short ones around it first rather than staring at the clue.
There is a mini board for this date too
Daily Themed Crossword runs two boards a day. The mini crossword for October 9, 2022 is on its own page, and the two share a theme more often than not — solving one gives you a head start on the other.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this board
The 67 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the October 9, 2022 crossword on the day it ran, with the clue wording stored exactly as the game showed it and every answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
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How to Solve a Daily Themed Crossword
How the daily and mini grids are built, and the order that solves them.
Read the theme before the clues
Daily Themed Crossword builds every puzzle around one idea, and the long entries almost always belong to it. Knowing the theme turns those from cold clues into a guessing game with a very short list.
Fill the short crossings first
Three and four letter answers use the most predictable vocabulary in the whole grid. Each one you place hands letters to the long clues for free, which is a better use of the first minute than staring at the hardest entry.
Abbreviations are signposted
A clue ending in "Abbr." or containing its own abbreviation is telling you the answer is short and clipped. The same goes for "Hyph." and "2 wds." — the clue format is half the answer.