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NYT Crossword February 25 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated February 25 2026

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Every answer from the Wednesday, February 25 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

1[Taps casino table]5 lettersSee answer ›6Signs of treble?5 lettersSee answer ›11___ hair (edgy 2000s trend)3 lettersSee answer ›14Longtime "Inside the NBA" analyst opposite Barkley5 lettersSee answer ›15Deck in divination5 lettersSee answer ›16Mil. authority3 lettersSee answer ›17Failing to pay bills on time may affect this11 lettersSee answer ›19Possessed3 lettersSee answer ›20Lotto-like casino game4 lettersSee answer ›21Summer treats in small cups4 lettersSee answer ›22Sounds of sudden vanishing5 lettersSee answer ›24Zero4 lettersSee answer ›26Inverse of kilo-5 lettersSee answer ›27"Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear" painter, 188914 lettersSee answer ›32Pair of cymbals in a drum kit5 lettersSee answer ›33Tribal home, maybe, informally3 lettersSee answer ›34Reason to take a painkiller4 lettersSee answer ›35So-called "melting pot," in brief3 lettersSee answer ›36E-bike alternative7 lettersSee answer ›40One ___ time3 lettersSee answer ›41Bubbles in a bubble bath4 lettersSee answer ›43A QR code might access one3 lettersSee answer ›44Purplish perennial5 lettersSee answer ›46Villain ranked #1 on A.F.I.'s "100 Years … 100 Heroes & Villains" list14 lettersSee answer ›50Ransacks5 lettersSee answer ›51Retail chain with ready-to-assemble products4 lettersSee answer ›52Stays in line, say5 lettersSee answer ›53Hawaiian goose4 lettersSee answer ›55Thumbs-down votes4 lettersSee answer ›59Buried3 lettersSee answer ›60Emulates the three figures in this puzzle ... or what the figures do within the answers to 17-, 27- and 46-Across?11 lettersSee answer ›63Fruit drink3 lettersSee answer ›64On a higher level5 lettersSee answer ›65Second-chance show5 lettersSee answer ›66Org. with metal detectors3 lettersSee answer ›67Supped5 lettersSee answer ›68Paradises5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Pawn4 lettersSee answer ›2Concerning4 lettersSee answer ›3One subject to a curfew, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›4So-called "Queen of Pop"7 lettersSee answer ›5Former Giant Manning3 lettersSee answer ›6Healthy self-image?6 lettersSee answer ›7Tie up4 lettersSee answer ›8God depicted with a bow4 lettersSee answer ›9Word between "word" and "word"3 lettersSee answer ›10Intervene6 lettersSee answer ›11Sound-track?10 lettersSee answer ›12Combatant in an octagon-shaped cage10 lettersSee answer ›13Calculated ratios4 lettersSee answer ›18Era competitor4 lettersSee answer ›23Gymnast Korbut dubbed the "Sparrow from Minsk"4 lettersSee answer ›25Behaves4 lettersSee answer ›26Where you might lose your way4 lettersSee answer ›27Demo graphics, maybe10 lettersSee answer ›28"This is news to me!"10 lettersSee answer ›29Cyber punk?5 lettersSee answer ›30Tick doc3 lettersSee answer ›31When repeated, "Preach!"4 lettersSee answer ›32When repeated, secret4 lettersSee answer ›37Bear's heirs?4 lettersSee answer ›3860 minuti3 lettersSee answer ›39Pulse quickly, as the heart4 lettersSee answer ›42Bratty kid4 lettersSee answer ›45Was a fangirl of, say7 lettersSee answer ›47"Really awful"6 lettersSee answer ›48Connected6 lettersSee answer ›49Scraped (by)4 lettersSee answer ›52"Huh?"4 lettersSee answer ›53Like the sign for Radio City Music Hall4 lettersSee answer ›54Roof projection4 lettersSee answer ›56Farming area4 lettersSee answer ›57Actor Steven of "Beef" and "Nope"4 lettersSee answer ›58Tax IDs4 lettersSee answer ›61Result of a solo homer, for short3 lettersSee answer ›62"There you ___!"3 lettersSee answer ›