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NYT Crossword February 23 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Monday, February 23 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Buffoons5 lettersSee answer ›6Paula of "American Idol"5 lettersSee answer ›11Final use for an old T-shirt3 lettersSee answer ›14Enraged5 lettersSee answer ›15What "my guitar gently" does, in a classic George Harrison song5 lettersSee answer ›16Mesozoic or Paleozoic3 lettersSee answer ›17Home for a single guy11 lettersSee answer ›19Animation sheet3 lettersSee answer ›20Hole for threading a lace6 lettersSee answer ›21___ fide (genuine)4 lettersSee answer ›22"Please like and subscribe" and the like, on YouTube videos6 lettersSee answer ›25Dr. Seuss book with the quote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."8 lettersSee answer ›28___ Today3 lettersSee answer ›29Kind of computer port3 lettersSee answer ›31Like the smell of trees6 lettersSee answer ›32Showed again5 lettersSee answer ›34Zoom past6 lettersSee answer ›37Psychotherapy switcheroos ... or what are hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 59-Across?13 lettersSee answer ›41Text on a red, white and blue sticker6 lettersSee answer ›42Gender-neutral possessive5 lettersSee answer ›44Ran after6 lettersSee answer ›47Opposite of WNW3 lettersSee answer ›49To and ___3 lettersSee answer ›50Time machine car in "Back to the Future"8 lettersSee answer ›53Made a grand speech6 lettersSee answer ›55Brother of Abel4 lettersSee answer ›56Times between dusk and dawn6 lettersSee answer ›58Had lunch, say3 lettersSee answer ›59Fruit with a "bellybutton"11 lettersSee answer ›64What planets revolve around3 lettersSee answer ›65How often the time is 12:00 each day5 lettersSee answer ›66Decorate5 lettersSee answer ›67Mini-albums3 lettersSee answer ›68___ of Troy5 lettersSee answer ›69Sat for a portrait5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Accessory for a baby in a highchair3 lettersSee answer ›2British singer Rita3 lettersSee answer ›3Efron of "The Greatest Showman"3 lettersSee answer ›4Last multiple-choice option, often5 lettersSee answer ›5Rude goodbye to an enemy11 lettersSee answer ›6Soldier who has failed to report4 lettersSee answer ›7Military cap5 lettersSee answer ›8One of the three dimensions5 lettersSee answer ›9Kick ___ fuss3 lettersSee answer ›10Counterculture drug, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›114.75 seconds to assemble a Mr. Potato Head, per Guinness6 lettersSee answer ›12Concert venues6 lettersSee answer ›13Milky Way, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›18Not as much4 lettersSee answer ›21"I crushed it!!!"6 lettersSee answer ›22Not just my3 lettersSee answer ›23___-friendly4 lettersSee answer ›24Root used in making poi4 lettersSee answer ›26Large jug4 lettersSee answer ›27Cage for crustaceans11 lettersSee answer ›30"American Psycho" author ___ Easton Ellis4 lettersSee answer ›33Cartoonist Bechdel6 lettersSee answer ›35Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare)3 lettersSee answer ›36Give up4 lettersSee answer ›38Was a passenger4 lettersSee answer ›39Democrats and Socialists, with "the"4 lettersSee answer ›40Father4 lettersSee answer ›43Axle, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›44Jewel box6 lettersSee answer ›45Start to escalate6 lettersSee answer ›46Extraterrestrials6 lettersSee answer ›48London theater district4 lettersSee answer ›51Object hitting people's heads in old cartoons5 lettersSee answer ›52Sibling's daughter5 lettersSee answer ›54South American barbecue5 lettersSee answer ›57Valley4 lettersSee answer ›59High degree3 lettersSee answer ›60Response to seeing an aurora, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›61Rejections3 lettersSee answer ›62College sr.'s test3 lettersSee answer ›6363-Down, in this puzzle3 lettersSee answer ›