USA Today Crossword November 4, 2026 Answers

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Wednesday puzzle · 76 clues — every Across and Down answer for the November 4, 2026 USA Today Crossword.

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Across

1___-dab in the middleSMACK 6Messy sortSLOB 10___ list (ranking system)TIER 14Marge Simpson's nickname for her husbandHOMIE 15Salt-N-___PEPA 16Color hidden in "time crunch"ECRU 17Home to 15% of Earth's speciesOCEAN 18"Ta-da!"IVEDONEIT 20"Yeah, I doubt it"UHNO 21Results of some setupsBLINDDATES 22Bit of body art, for shortTAT 23"That's news to me" acronymTIL 24Small songbirdWREN 25Gets taken downLOSES 27Garden toolHOE 28Nighttime bugle callTAPS 32Yiddish for "pancake"LATKE 33Showed on TV againRERAN 35Large tubVAT 36"This seems doable on my own"ITHINKILLMANAGE 39Map app approx.ETA 40Twenty-___ diceSIDED 41Extend a leaseRENEW 42"Late Night" host MeyersSETH 44Number written as "A" in hexadecimalTEN 45"Severance" star AdamSCOTT 46Granola bar grainsOATS 48Ms. Frizzle's vehicleBUS 49Chew on this!GUM 51Figurative repository for things meant to be forgottenMEMORYHOLE 55On guardWARY 56"Like that matters to me!"ASIFICARE 57TransportedBORNE 58Sleeveless topCAMI 59Storylines that might last an entire seasonARCS 60SequenceORDER 61"___ yourself"SUIT 62"Sleepytime" blendsTEAS 63Sophomores, to a sophomorePEERS

Down

1HollerSHOUT 2Chocolatey coffee drinkMOCHALATTE 3"Preach!"AMENTOTHAT 4Italian farewellCIAO 5Ncuti Gatwa's "Barbie" roleKEN 6DivulgeSPILL 7___ Strauss & Co.LEVI 8Video game environment with lots of places to wanderOPENWORLD 9Reason you might wake up feeling unsettledBADDREAM 10Rent payerTENANT 11Rapper who plays Sergeant Fin TutuolaICET 12Lake south of OntarioERIE 13Road problems caused by buggy technology?RUTS 19Poem of praiseODE 21Hammer curl muscles, for shortBIS 23Older Gen Alpha membersTEENS 26Navigate a black diamond runSKI 27___ of TroyHELEN 29Cutting-edge, artisticallyAVANTGARDE 30Book that's hard to put downPAGETURNER 31Slow-cooked dishSTEW 32Things Marta can't tell without getting sick, in "Knives Out"LIES 33Commute communallyRIDESHARE 34SnitchesNARCS 37Cute nickname for a meowing friendKITTYCAT 38Prefix meaning "new"NEO 43Go on footHOOFIT 45Take to courtSUE 47"Hereditary" director AsterARI 48"___ this mess"BLESS 50___-Briggs Type IndicatorMYERS 51Apple computersMACS 52Jacob's twin, in the TorahESAU 53Mariah Carey's nicknameMIMI 54Killer whaleORCA 55Had onWORE 57BangerBOP

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This page lists every clue from the USA Today Crossword published on November 4, 2026, a Wednesday, in Across and Down order. Tap any clue to open its solution page with the answer, its letter count, and every other date it has appeared. Looking for a different day? Head to the full archive or use the search bar at the top of the page.