NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Feb 23, 2026

Complete answer list for the February 23, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Hannah BinneyEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1576 clues

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Across 35

  1. 1Buffoons ↗BOZOS
  2. 6Paula of "American Idol" ↗ABDUL
  3. 11Final use for an old T-shirt ↗RAG
  4. 14Enraged ↗IRATE
  5. 15What "my guitar gently" does, in a classic George Harrison song ↗WEEPS
  6. 16Mesozoic or Paleozoic ↗ERA
  7. 17Home for a single guy ↗BACHELORPAD
  8. 19Animation sheet ↗CEL
  9. 20Hole for threading a lace ↗EYELET
  10. 21___ fide (genuine) ↗BONA
  11. 22"Please like and subscribe" and the like, on YouTube videos ↗OUTROS
  12. 25Dr. Seuss book with the quote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." ↗THELORAX
  13. 28___ Today ↗USA
  14. 29Kind of computer port ↗USB
  15. 31Like the smell of trees ↗WOODSY
  16. 32Showed again ↗RERAN
  17. 34Zoom past ↗RACEBY
  18. 37Psychotherapy switcheroos ... or what are hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 59-Across? ↗ROLEREVERSALS
  19. 41Text on a red, white and blue sticker ↗IVOTED
  20. 42Gender-neutral possessive ↗THEIR
  21. 44Ran after ↗CHASED
  22. 47Opposite of WNW ↗ESE
  23. 49To and ___ ↗FRO
  24. 50Time machine car in "Back to the Future" ↗DELOREAN
  25. 53Made a grand speech ↗ORATED
  26. 55Brother of Abel ↗CAIN
  27. 56Times between dusk and dawn ↗NIGHTS
  28. 58Had lunch, say ↗ATE
  29. 59Fruit with a "bellybutton" ↗NAVELORANGE
  30. 64What planets revolve around ↗SUN
  31. 65How often the time is 12:00 each day ↗TWICE
  32. 66Decorate ↗ADORN
  33. 67Mini-albums ↗EPS
  34. 68___ of Troy ↗HELEN
  35. 69Sat for a portrait ↗POSED

Down 41

  1. 1Accessory for a baby in a highchair ↗BIB
  2. 2British singer Rita ↗ORA
  3. 3Efron of "The Greatest Showman" ↗ZAC
  4. 4Last multiple-choice option, often ↗OTHER
  5. 5Rude goodbye to an enemy ↗SEEYOUNEVER
  6. 6Soldier who has failed to report ↗AWOL
  7. 7Military cap ↗BERET
  8. 8One of the three dimensions ↗DEPTH
  9. 9Kick ___ fuss ↗UPA
  10. 10Counterculture drug, in brief ↗LSD
  11. 114.75 seconds to assemble a Mr. Potato Head, per Guinness ↗RECORD
  12. 12Concert venues ↗ARENAS
  13. 13Milky Way, e.g. ↗GALAXY
  14. 18Not as much ↗LESS
  15. 21"I crushed it!!!" ↗BOOYAH
  16. 22Not just my ↗OUR
  17. 23___-friendly ↗USER
  18. 24Root used in making poi ↗TARO
  19. 26Large jug ↗EWER
  20. 27Cage for crustaceans ↗LOBSTERTRAP
  21. 30"American Psycho" author ___ Easton Ellis ↗BRET
  22. 33Cartoonist Bechdel ↗ALISON
  23. 35Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare) ↗AVE
  24. 36Give up ↗CEDE
  25. 38Was a passenger ↗RODE
  26. 39Democrats and Socialists, with "the" ↗LEFT
  27. 40Father ↗SIRE
  28. 43Axle, e.g. ↗ROD
  29. 44Jewel box ↗CDCASE
  30. 45Start to escalate ↗HEATUP
  31. 46Extraterrestrials ↗ALIENS
  32. 48London theater district ↗SOHO
  33. 51Object hitting people's heads in old cartoons ↗ANVIL
  34. 52Sibling's daughter ↗NIECE
  35. 54South American barbecue ↗ASADO
  36. 57Valley ↗GLEN
  37. 59High degree ↗NTH
  38. 60Response to seeing an aurora, maybe ↗AWE
  39. 61Rejections ↗NOS
  40. 62College sr.'s test ↗GRE
  41. 6363-Down, in this puzzle ↗END