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NYT Crossword February 28 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated February 28 2026

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Every answer from the Saturday, February 28 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

1Set unambitious goals6 lettersSee answer ›7One playing beerball, perhaps7 lettersSee answer ›14Tolkien ring bearer7 lettersSee answer ›16Precious person7 lettersSee answer ›17Phrase you might say while pointing at a photograph7 lettersSee answer ›18Goes against the rule?7 lettersSee answer ›19Musical set in Alphabet City4 lettersSee answer ›20Term of endearment appropriated from 9-Down3 lettersSee answer ›22Part of a Blues Brothers outfit6 lettersSee answer ›23Animated friend of Sebastian the crab5 lettersSee answer ›25Some arm muscles, informally4 lettersSee answer ›27Cassiterite is a source of it3 lettersSee answer ›28Robert Frost's middle name3 lettersSee answer ›29___ Allen Express, Amtrak train from New York City to Burlington, Vt.5 lettersSee answer ›31Innermost moon of Neptune5 lettersSee answer ›33Pressure gauge?11 lettersSee answer ›35Past, colloquially11 lettersSee answer ›36Symbols used to group blocks of computer code11 lettersSee answer ›37Was on the sidelines5 lettersSee answer ›38Breathlessness5 lettersSee answer ›39Polynesian staple3 lettersSee answer ›42Not mainstream, as some music genres3 lettersSee answer ›43Fuss4 lettersSee answer ›44Weakens, as an overly strong character, in video game lingo5 lettersSee answer ›46Angora fabric6 lettersSee answer ›49Utmost3 lettersSee answer ›51___ Tung, star of cable TV's "The Summer I Turned Pretty"4 lettersSee answer ›52Did a bedtime task7 lettersSee answer ›54Modern banking convenience7 lettersSee answer ›56Musical sample added for excitement7 lettersSee answer ›57Animals in an early-2000s virtual fad7 lettersSee answer ›58Entered again7 lettersSee answer ›59One might play at home6 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Kind of projection6 lettersSee answer ›2Call at a roll call6 lettersSee answer ›3Big jerk6 lettersSee answer ›4Drink often sipped5 lettersSee answer ›5Rap pioneers, slangily3 lettersSee answer ›6Space to develop as a person?4 lettersSee answer ›7In brief, to whom Grover Cleveland once said "I am making a strange wish for you ... that you may never be president of the United States"3 lettersSee answer ›8School houses?5 lettersSee answer ›9Dialect that is responsible for a large majority of Gen Z slang4 lettersSee answer ›10Put one's foot down4 lettersSee answer ›11Decorative items worn at Western galas8 lettersSee answer ›12Like defendants at court7 lettersSee answer ›13Principle of improv comedy6 lettersSee answer ›15Gay nightlife spot with a dress requirement10 lettersSee answer ›21Error correction tool9 lettersSee answer ›24Uncork, so to speak6 lettersSee answer ›26Body bronzer10 lettersSee answer ›30___ Story (punny nickname for the "Iliad")4 lettersSee answer ›31Like the lion killed by Hercules6 lettersSee answer ›32Scientific classification for birds4 lettersSee answer ›33Tesla, for one4 lettersSee answer ›34Affliction treated with a nit comb4 lettersSee answer ›35Acting like a sore loser, informally8 lettersSee answer ›36___ counter7 lettersSee answer ›37South Indian lentil stew6 lettersSee answer ›39Following etiquette6 lettersSee answer ›40Recently6 lettersSee answer ›41Declaration after "because"6 lettersSee answer ›43French relative5 lettersSee answer ›45Skip the ceremony, say5 lettersSee answer ›47Like some unmoisturized skin4 lettersSee answer ›48Blue-roofed restaurant4 lettersSee answer ›50Coral and sand, for two4 lettersSee answer ›53Popular role-playing game since 1974, informally3 lettersSee answer ›55One whose eyes are "all aglow" in "The Christmas Song"3 lettersSee answer ›