NYT Daily Crossword - Sunday, October 18, 2026

Sorry for the late post - took me awhile to find time to review the video - and sorry also for the background noise! But Peter Gorman's Sunday theme is so amiable that I think it was worth the wait... THINGS I MISSED: 25A - long-time host of "All Things Considered" on NPR 73A - it won several awards and was adapted into a 2016 miniseries for Hulu 78A - their trunks (the trees, not the elephants) can store up to 120,000 liters of water (!!) 86A - possibly this is a meta clue about the position of this one over 88A? 97A - "'a'ole" is in Hawaiian, but I actually can't find a language where "ni" means "no" - anyone? 9D - literally "second generation" ("ni" = two, as I recall from my jiu jitsu training) 36D - it amounts to basically an extremely elaborate curse, whose target remains pseudonymous and unconfirmed 68D - in Basque territory, on the border with Spain