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NYT Crossword February 4 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated February 4 2026

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Every answer from the Wednesday, February 4 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Hanh Huynh and Ted Mayer · Edited by Will Shortz

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1Indian megacity of 16+ million5 lettersSee answer ›6Talks too much5 lettersSee answer ›11Text initialism that's the name of a 2010 Usher hit3 lettersSee answer ›14Like some walls at Harvard and Dartmouth5 lettersSee answer ›15"Casablanca" actor's nickname5 lettersSee answer ›16Actress Long or Peeples3 lettersSee answer ›17Native American rite of passage11 lettersSee answer ›19Explosive item for Wile E. Coyote3 lettersSee answer ›20"I wish it were so"6 lettersSee answer ›21Behavioral quirk3 lettersSee answer ›22Clarified butter4 lettersSee answer ›23Roof type with removable panels4 lettersSee answer ›25Girl encouraged to wake up, in a 1957 #1 Everly Brothers hit5 lettersSee answer ›27Heartbeat tests, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›30Jewish rite of passage10 lettersSee answer ›34L.L.Bean competitor3 lettersSee answer ›35"___ of Dogs" (2018 film)4 lettersSee answer ›36Occurring at an appropriate moment6 lettersSee answer ›37N.F.L. player in a purple uniform5 lettersSee answer ›39What might help someone be loud and clear?3 lettersSee answer ›41Strong point5 lettersSee answer ›42"I'll be right with you"6 lettersSee answer ›44Screw up4 lettersSee answer ›46Lead-in to X, Y or Z3 lettersSee answer ›47Amish rite of passage10 lettersSee answer ›49More than giga-, less than peta-4 lettersSee answer ›50Really plague5 lettersSee answer ›51Each "point" of Taurus's horns, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›53Stand up to4 lettersSee answer ›55Profs' aides3 lettersSee answer ›57Beethoven work originally titled "Bonaparte," after Napoleon6 lettersSee answer ›61Kimono sash3 lettersSee answer ›62"Seinfeld" catchphrase ... or, when parsed as three words, how a participant of 17-, 30- or 47-Across might be greeted?11 lettersSee answer ›64Dallas baller3 lettersSee answer ›65Kind of pipe or patch5 lettersSee answer ›66Like an Islay single malt, to Scotch enthusiasts5 lettersSee answer ›67Ball one or ball two?3 lettersSee answer ›68Great Plains nation5 lettersSee answer ›69Pittsburgh-based industrial giant5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Melodramatic sort4 lettersSee answer ›2Like Cinderella's stepmother4 lettersSee answer ›3Rapper in K-pop's Blackpink4 lettersSee answer ›4Jobs in "Heat" and "Ocean's Eleven"6 lettersSee answer ›5Lead-in to know or care5 lettersSee answer ›6Potato chip flavor, informally3 lettersSee answer ›7Ruffian4 lettersSee answer ›8Workplace concern for seniors6 lettersSee answer ›9British cookie7 lettersSee answer ›1010 squats at the gym, perhaps3 lettersSee answer ›11Facing an imminent prospect (of)10 lettersSee answer ›12"None for you!"4 lettersSee answer ›13Right out of the ___4 lettersSee answer ›18Rookies, to gamers5 lettersSee answer ›22Doohickey5 lettersSee answer ›24Sources of lines for a reading, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›26Like some upper lips and drinks5 lettersSee answer ›27Unforced ___ (athlete's concern)5 lettersSee answer ›28Reeves of "Hardball"5 lettersSee answer ›29"Up top!"10 lettersSee answer ›31Ruler's length?5 lettersSee answer ›32Cuff or hem, say5 lettersSee answer ›33Any of Scar's underlings in "The Lion King"5 lettersSee answer ›35Unfit for the job5 lettersSee answer ›38Bar exam component5 lettersSee answer ›40Gear parts4 lettersSee answer ›43Completely collapses7 lettersSee answer ›45Like some Quaker products5 lettersSee answer ›48Where you are when in Roma6 lettersSee answer ›49Cement spreader6 lettersSee answer ›52Snack similar to a gordita5 lettersSee answer ›53Noggin4 lettersSee answer ›54Site for online bids4 lettersSee answer ›56Foundry waste4 lettersSee answer ›58Part of a line at an Apple Store4 lettersSee answer ›59Adversary of Julius Caesar4 lettersSee answer ›60Actress Taylor-Joy of "The Gorge"4 lettersSee answer ›62"The Penguin" airer3 lettersSee answer ›63Foundry material3 lettersSee answer ›