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NYT Crossword February 22 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, February 22 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Jill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp · Edited by Will Shortz · “Books of the Bible”

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1Ease up5 lettersSee answer ›6Setting for a landscape6 lettersSee answer ›12Like pickles, but not cucumbers6 lettersSee answer ›18Turn up6 lettersSee answer ›20If all goes perfectly6 lettersSee answer ›21Certain head jurors7 lettersSee answer ›23Like some 401(k) contributions6 lettersSee answer ›24The Ten Plagues14 lettersSee answer ›26Freeze4 lettersSee answer ›27Bolo, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›29Farmyard call3 lettersSee answer ›30Print-ready6 lettersSee answer ›31Sodom and Gomorrah16 lettersSee answer ›37Literary fairy queen3 lettersSee answer ›38Outpouring of Pandora's box4 lettersSee answer ›39Erelong4 lettersSee answer ›40Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›41Singsong syllable3 lettersSee answer ›43Season ticket holders, presumably4 lettersSee answer ›45Shoofly desserts4 lettersSee answer ›46Hopeless from the start, for short3 lettersSee answer ›48Janis ___, "At Seventeen" singer3 lettersSee answer ›49Samson and Delilah17 lettersSee answer ›55Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel3 lettersSee answer ›56Fix3 lettersSee answer ›57Calendar notation: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›58Diamond stats4 lettersSee answer ›59Certain trig functions5 lettersSee answer ›61So-called "Hollywood of the South"7 lettersSee answer ›64Big name in bubbly4 lettersSee answer ›65Painter's medium3 lettersSee answer ›66Noah's Ark21 lettersSee answer ›74Nonclerical3 lettersSee answer ›75Get the better of4 lettersSee answer ›76Like Constantinople, in 19307 lettersSee answer ›77Interior style5 lettersSee answer ›80Ballet bend4 lettersSee answer ›81Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter4 lettersSee answer ›83The third3 lettersSee answer ›84Ruckus3 lettersSee answer ›85Garden of Eden17 lettersSee answer ›91"Scrumdiddlyumptious!"3 lettersSee answer ›92Crew need3 lettersSee answer ›93Get the ___ (finally become aware)4 lettersSee answer ›94Ingredient in some gels4 lettersSee answer ›95Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›96Vintage film channel3 lettersSee answer ›98Letters on a crucifix4 lettersSee answer ›99Word with rabbit or all4 lettersSee answer ›101Sully3 lettersSee answer ›103Moses Parting the Red Sea16 lettersSee answer ›109Rush uncontrolledly6 lettersSee answer ›111Most common last name in Somalia3 lettersSee answer ›112Pressure meas.3 lettersSee answer ›113It's verboten4 lettersSee answer ›114Jonah and the Whale14 lettersSee answer ›119Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit6 lettersSee answer ›121Took turns7 lettersSee answer ›122Brimless topper6 lettersSee answer ›123One bringing home the bacon6 lettersSee answer ›124Surprisingly enough6 lettersSee answer ›125Bars, legally6 lettersSee answer ›126Follows5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Leader of the pack5 lettersSee answer ›22006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist5 lettersSee answer ›3High-speed travel option5 lettersSee answer ›4Squealer's activity8 lettersSee answer ›5H, to Hera3 lettersSee answer ›6West Pointer5 lettersSee answer ›7Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up"3 lettersSee answer ›8Org. with the Nuggets and Nets3 lettersSee answer ›9Screen3 lettersSee answer ›10Rubbish receptacle6 lettersSee answer ›11Weasel with a black-tipped tail5 lettersSee answer ›12Where the coxswain sits3 lettersSee answer ›13Unity8 lettersSee answer ›14In a fury4 lettersSee answer ›15Blue material5 lettersSee answer ›16Counterfeit9 lettersSee answer ›17Whoop it up9 lettersSee answer ›19Glorify5 lettersSee answer ›22___ Stark, "Game of Thrones" patriarch3 lettersSee answer ›25Gullible sort4 lettersSee answer ›28Hypotheticals3 lettersSee answer ›32Besides4 lettersSee answer ›33Part of a trunk5 lettersSee answer ›34First-year law student, informally4 lettersSee answer ›35"___ Fan Tutte"4 lettersSee answer ›36Mathematician Paul5 lettersSee answer ›42___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins)4 lettersSee answer ›43Confidence5 lettersSee answer ›44What may be right but not left?5 lettersSee answer ›45New Yorkie, say3 lettersSee answer ›47Delegate6 lettersSee answer ›49Pull to open4 lettersSee answer ›50Dilapidated5 lettersSee answer ›51Moonfish4 lettersSee answer ›52Yankees nickname until 20164 lettersSee answer ›53"My eye!"4 lettersSee answer ›54Wielder of a red lightsaber4 lettersSee answer ›60"Casablanca" role4 lettersSee answer ›62Folk singer Guthrie4 lettersSee answer ›63Approaching6 lettersSee answer ›641964's Nobel Peace laureate, for short3 lettersSee answer ›65Common bridge bid, informally5 lettersSee answer ›67Spanish "she"4 lettersSee answer ›68Kristen of "Bridesmaids"4 lettersSee answer ›69Slushy brand4 lettersSee answer ›70Press4 lettersSee answer ›71Protein-building acid, informally5 lettersSee answer ›72Treat again, as a sprain5 lettersSee answer ›73Actress Falco4 lettersSee answer ›77Clammy4 lettersSee answer ›78"Heeere's Johnny!" announcer9 lettersSee answer ›79Measure against9 lettersSee answer ›80Tree branch or power line, for a bird5 lettersSee answer ›81One making an impression?5 lettersSee answer ›82Woman honored in John Lennon's "Woman"3 lettersSee answer ›86Where boaters hang with bowlers8 lettersSee answer ›87Hyatt alternative4 lettersSee answer ›88Spore-producing plant4 lettersSee answer ›89Transport (around)4 lettersSee answer ›90Castle in "Hamlet"8 lettersSee answer ›97Heart of the matter4 lettersSee answer ›98Subject for van Gogh6 lettersSee answer ›99Aurora's counterpart in Greek mythology3 lettersSee answer ›100Lit5 lettersSee answer ›102Big name in movie theaters5 lettersSee answer ›104First-year West Pointer5 lettersSee answer ›105Olympic blades5 lettersSee answer ›106"No man is an island" writer5 lettersSee answer ›107Was over5 lettersSee answer ›108Glides high5 lettersSee answer ›109Middle: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›110Noted Art Deco designer4 lettersSee answer ›115Sponsored spots3 lettersSee answer ›116Persian or Abyssinian3 lettersSee answer ›117Enero a diciembre3 lettersSee answer ›118Domino dot3 lettersSee answer ›120"Yeah, right!"3 lettersSee answer ›