New York Times Crossword February 22 2026 Answers

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Below are all 140 clues from the New York Times Crossword for February 22 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Ease up51 AcrossReveal answer → Setting for a landscape66 AcrossReveal answer → Like pickles, but not cucumbers612 AcrossReveal answer → Turn up618 AcrossReveal answer → If all goes perfectly620 AcrossReveal answer → Certain head jurors721 AcrossReveal answer → Like some 401(k) contributions623 AcrossReveal answer → The Ten Plagues1424 AcrossReveal answer → Freeze426 AcrossReveal answer → Bolo, e.g.327 AcrossReveal answer → Farmyard call329 AcrossReveal answer → Print-ready630 AcrossReveal answer → Sodom and Gomorrah1631 AcrossReveal answer → Literary fairy queen337 AcrossReveal answer → Outpouring of Pandora's box438 AcrossReveal answer → Erelong439 AcrossReveal answer → Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr.340 AcrossReveal answer → Singsong syllable341 AcrossReveal answer → Season ticket holders, presumably443 AcrossReveal answer → Shoofly desserts445 AcrossReveal answer → Hopeless from the start, for short346 AcrossReveal answer → Janis ___, "At Seventeen" singer348 AcrossReveal answer → Samson and Delilah1749 AcrossReveal answer → Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel355 AcrossReveal answer → Fix356 AcrossReveal answer → Calendar notation: Abbr.457 AcrossReveal answer → Diamond stats458 AcrossReveal answer → Certain trig functions559 AcrossReveal answer → So-called "Hollywood of the South"761 AcrossReveal answer → Big name in bubbly464 AcrossReveal answer → Painter's medium365 AcrossReveal answer → Noah's Ark2166 AcrossReveal answer → Nonclerical374 AcrossReveal answer → Get the better of475 AcrossReveal answer → Like Constantinople, in 1930776 AcrossReveal answer → Interior style577 AcrossReveal answer → Ballet bend480 AcrossReveal answer → Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter481 AcrossReveal answer → The third383 AcrossReveal answer → Ruckus384 AcrossReveal answer → Garden of Eden1785 AcrossReveal answer → "Scrumdiddlyumptious!"391 AcrossReveal answer → Crew need392 AcrossReveal answer → Get the ___ (finally become aware)493 AcrossReveal answer → Ingredient in some gels494 AcrossReveal answer → Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief395 AcrossReveal answer → Vintage film channel396 AcrossReveal answer → Letters on a crucifix498 AcrossReveal answer → Word with rabbit or all499 AcrossReveal answer → Sully3101 AcrossReveal answer → Moses Parting the Red Sea16103 AcrossReveal answer → Rush uncontrolledly6109 AcrossReveal answer → Most common last name in Somalia3111 AcrossReveal answer → Pressure meas.3112 AcrossReveal answer → It's verboten4113 AcrossReveal answer → Jonah and the Whale14114 AcrossReveal answer → Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit6119 AcrossReveal answer → Took turns7121 AcrossReveal answer → Brimless topper6122 AcrossReveal answer → One bringing home the bacon6123 AcrossReveal answer → Surprisingly enough6124 AcrossReveal answer → Bars, legally6125 AcrossReveal answer → Follows5126 AcrossReveal answer →

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Leader of the pack51 DownReveal answer → 2006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist52 DownReveal answer → High-speed travel option53 DownReveal answer → Squealer's activity84 DownReveal answer → H, to Hera35 DownReveal answer → West Pointer56 DownReveal answer → Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up"37 DownReveal answer → Org. with the Nuggets and Nets38 DownReveal answer → Screen39 DownReveal answer → Rubbish receptacle610 DownReveal answer → Weasel with a black-tipped tail511 DownReveal answer → Where the coxswain sits312 DownReveal answer → Unity813 DownReveal answer → In a fury414 DownReveal answer → Blue material515 DownReveal answer → Counterfeit916 DownReveal answer → Whoop it up917 DownReveal answer → Glorify519 DownReveal answer → ___ Stark, "Game of Thrones" patriarch322 DownReveal answer → Gullible sort425 DownReveal answer → Hypotheticals328 DownReveal answer → Besides432 DownReveal answer → Part of a trunk533 DownReveal answer → First-year law student, informally434 DownReveal answer → "___ Fan Tutte"435 DownReveal answer → Mathematician Paul536 DownReveal answer → ___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins)442 DownReveal answer → Confidence543 DownReveal answer → What may be right but not left?544 DownReveal answer → New Yorkie, say345 DownReveal answer → Delegate647 DownReveal answer → Pull to open449 DownReveal answer → Dilapidated550 DownReveal answer → Moonfish451 DownReveal answer → Yankees nickname until 2016452 DownReveal answer → "My eye!"453 DownReveal answer → Wielder of a red lightsaber454 DownReveal answer → "Casablanca" role460 DownReveal answer → Folk singer Guthrie462 DownReveal answer → Approaching663 DownReveal answer → 1964's Nobel Peace laureate, for short364 DownReveal answer → Common bridge bid, informally565 DownReveal answer → Spanish "she"467 DownReveal answer → Kristen of "Bridesmaids"468 DownReveal answer → Slushy brand469 DownReveal answer → Press470 DownReveal answer → Protein-building acid, informally571 DownReveal answer → Treat again, as a sprain572 DownReveal answer → Actress Falco473 DownReveal answer → Clammy477 DownReveal answer → "Heeere's Johnny!" announcer978 DownReveal answer → Measure against979 DownReveal answer → Tree branch or power line, for a bird580 DownReveal answer → One making an impression?581 DownReveal answer → Woman honored in John Lennon's "Woman"382 DownReveal answer → Where boaters hang with bowlers886 DownReveal answer → Hyatt alternative487 DownReveal answer → Spore-producing plant488 DownReveal answer → Transport (around)489 DownReveal answer → Castle in "Hamlet"890 DownReveal answer → Heart of the matter497 DownReveal answer → Subject for van Gogh698 DownReveal answer → Aurora's counterpart in Greek mythology399 DownReveal answer → Lit5100 DownReveal answer → Big name in movie theaters5102 DownReveal answer → First-year West Pointer5104 DownReveal answer → Olympic blades5105 DownReveal answer → "No man is an island" writer5106 DownReveal answer → Was over5107 DownReveal answer → Glides high5108 DownReveal answer → Middle: Abbr.3109 DownReveal answer → Noted Art Deco designer4110 DownReveal answer → Sponsored spots3115 DownReveal answer → Persian or Abyssinian3116 DownReveal answer → Enero a diciembre3117 DownReveal answer → Domino dot3118 DownReveal answer → "Yeah, right!"3120 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the New York Times crossword published on Sunday, February 22, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.