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NYT Crossword answers for February 22, 2026

NYT Crossword · February 22, 2026 · Every hint stays hidden until you tap it

All 140 clues from the Sunday NYT Crossword (21 by 21), with every answer hidden until you want it. Check a length or a first letter before you reveal a whole answer.

Today's title: Books Of The Bible

Across clues and answer lengths
Across first letters
  • 1 starts with A
  • 6 starts with C
  • 12 starts with A
  • 18 starts with L
  • 20 starts with A
  • 21 starts with F
  • 23 starts with P
  • 24 starts with D
  • 26 starts with H
  • 27 starts with T
  • 29 starts with B
  • 30 starts with E
  • 31 starts with A
  • 37 starts with M
  • 38 starts with I
  • 39 starts with A
  • 40 starts with F
  • 41 starts with T
  • 43 starts with F
  • 45 starts with P
  • 46 starts with D
  • 48 starts with I
  • 49 starts with D
  • 55 starts with O
  • 56 starts with R
  • 57 starts with A
  • 58 starts with R
  • 59 starts with S
  • 61 starts with A
  • 64 starts with M
  • 65 starts with O
  • 66 starts with W
  • 74 starts with L
  • 75 starts with L
  • 76 starts with R
  • 77 starts with D
  • 80 starts with P
  • 81 starts with M
  • 83 starts with I
  • 84 starts with A
  • 85 starts with T
  • 91 starts with M
  • 92 starts with O
  • 93 starts with M
  • 94 starts with A
  • 95 starts with P
  • 96 starts with T
  • 98 starts with I
  • 99 starts with E
  • 101 starts with M
  • 103 starts with T
  • 109 starts with C
  • 111 starts with A
  • 112 starts with P
  • 113 starts with N
  • 114 starts with T
  • 119 starts with R
  • 121 starts with R
  • 122 starts with B
  • 123 starts with E
  • 124 starts with N
  • 125 starts with E
  • 126 starts with H
Show the across answers
  • 1 Across: Ease up ABATE
  • 6 Across: Setting for a landscape CANVAS
  • 12 Across: Like pickles, but not cucumbers ACIDIC
  • 18 Across: Turn up LOCATE
  • 20 Across: If all goes perfectly ATBEST
  • 21 Across: Certain head jurors FOREMEN
  • 23 Across: Like some 401(k) contributions PRETAX
  • 24 Across: The Ten Plagues DEATHONTHENILE
  • 26 Across: Freeze HALT
  • 27 Across: Bolo, e.g. TIE
  • 29 Across: Farmyard call BAA
  • 30 Across: Print-ready EDITED
  • 31 Across: Sodom and Gomorrah ATALEOFTWOCITIES
  • 37 Across: Literary fairy queen MAB
  • 38 Across: Outpouring of Pandora's box ILLS
  • 39 Across: Erelong ANON
  • 40 Across: Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr. FRI
  • 41 Across: Singsong syllable TRA
  • 43 Across: Season ticket holders, presumably FANS
  • 45 Across: Shoofly desserts PIES
  • 46 Across: Hopeless from the start, for short DOA
  • 48 Across: Janis ___, "At Seventeen" singer IAN
  • 49 Across: Samson and Delilah DANGEROUSLIAISONS
  • 55 Across: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel OTT
  • 56 Across: Fix RIG
  • 57 Across: Calendar notation: Abbr. APPT
  • 58 Across: Diamond stats RBIS
  • 59 Across: Certain trig functions SINES
  • 61 Across: So-called "Hollywood of the South" ATLANTA
  • 64 Across: Big name in bubbly MOET
  • 65 Across: Painter's medium OIL
  • 66 Across: Noah's Ark WHERETHEWILDTHINGSARE
  • 74 Across: Nonclerical LAY
  • 75 Across: Get the better of LICK
  • 76 Across: Like Constantinople, in 1930 RENAMED
  • 77 Across: Interior style DECOR
  • 80 Across: Ballet bend PLIE
  • 81 Across: Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter MOON
  • 83 Across: The third III
  • 84 Across: Ruckus ADO
  • 85 Across: Garden of Eden THEAGEOFINNOCENCE
  • 91 Across: "Scrumdiddlyumptious!" MMM
  • 92 Across: Crew need OAR
  • 93 Across: Get the ___ (finally become aware) MEMO
  • 94 Across: Ingredient in some gels ALOE
  • 95 Across: Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief PCP
  • 96 Across: Vintage film channel TCM
  • 98 Across: Letters on a crucifix INRI
  • 99 Across: Word with rabbit or all EARS
  • 101 Across: Sully MAR
  • 103 Across: Moses Parting the Red Sea THEPRINCEOFTIDES
  • 109 Across: Rush uncontrolledly CAREER
  • 111 Across: Most common last name in Somalia ALI
  • 112 Across: Pressure meas. PSI
  • 113 Across: It's verboten NONO
  • 114 Across: Jonah and the Whale THEGREATESCAPE
  • 119 Across: Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit RHONDA
  • 121 Across: Took turns ROTATED
  • 122 Across: Brimless topper BEANIE
  • 123 Across: One bringing home the bacon EARNER
  • 124 Across: Surprisingly enough NOLESS
  • 125 Across: Bars, legally ESTOPS
  • 126 Across: Follows HEEDS
Down clues and answer lengths
Down first letters
  • 1 starts with A
  • 2 starts with B
  • 3 starts with A
  • 4 starts with T
  • 5 starts with E
  • 6 starts with C
  • 7 starts with A
  • 8 starts with N
  • 9 starts with V
  • 10 starts with A
  • 11 starts with S
  • 12 starts with A
  • 13 starts with C
  • 14 starts with I
  • 15 starts with D
  • 16 starts with I
  • 17 starts with C
  • 19 starts with E
  • 22 starts with N
  • 25 starts with N
  • 28 starts with I
  • 32 starts with E
  • 33 starts with W
  • 34 starts with O
  • 35 starts with C
  • 36 starts with E
  • 42 starts with A
  • 43 starts with F
  • 44 starts with A
  • 45 starts with P
  • 47 starts with A
  • 49 starts with D
  • 50 starts with R
  • 51 starts with O
  • 52 starts with A
  • 53 starts with I
  • 54 starts with S
  • 60 starts with I
  • 62 starts with A
  • 63 starts with N
  • 64 starts with M
  • 65 starts with O
  • 67 starts with E
  • 68 starts with W
  • 69 starts with I
  • 70 starts with I
  • 71 starts with A
  • 72 starts with R
  • 73 starts with E
  • 77 starts with D
  • 78 starts with E
  • 79 starts with C
  • 80 starts with P
  • 81 starts with M
  • 82 starts with O
  • 86 starts with H
  • 87 starts with O
  • 88 starts with F
  • 89 starts with C
  • 90 starts with E
  • 97 starts with M
  • 98 starts with I
  • 99 starts with E
  • 100 starts with A
  • 102 starts with R
  • 104 starts with P
  • 105 starts with E
  • 106 starts with D
  • 107 starts with E
  • 108 starts with S
  • 109 starts with C
  • 110 starts with E
  • 115 starts with A
  • 116 starts with C
  • 117 starts with A
  • 118 starts with P
  • 120 starts with H
Show the down answers
  • 1 Down: Leader of the pack ALPHA
  • 2 Down: 2006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist BORAT
  • 3 Down: High-speed travel option ACELA
  • 4 Down: Squealer's activity TATTLING
  • 5 Down: H, to Hera ETA
  • 6 Down: West Pointer CADET
  • 7 Down: Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up" ATE
  • 8 Down: Org. with the Nuggets and Nets NBA
  • 9 Down: Screen VET
  • 10 Down: Rubbish receptacle ASHBIN
  • 11 Down: Weasel with a black-tipped tail STOAT
  • 12 Down: Where the coxswain sits AFT
  • 13 Down: Unity COHESION
  • 14 Down: In a fury IRED
  • 15 Down: Blue material DENIM
  • 16 Down: Counterfeit IMITATION
  • 17 Down: Whoop it up CELEBRATE
  • 19 Down: Glorify EXTOL
  • 22 Down: ___ Stark, "Game of Thrones" patriarch NED
  • 25 Down: Gullible sort NAIF
  • 28 Down: Hypotheticals IFS
  • 32 Down: Besides ELSE
  • 33 Down: Part of a trunk WAIST
  • 34 Down: First-year law student, informally ONEL
  • 35 Down: "___ Fan Tutte" COSI
  • 36 Down: Mathematician Paul ERDOS
  • 42 Down: ___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins) ANTS
  • 43 Down: Confidence FAITH
  • 44 Down: What may be right but not left? ANGLE
  • 45 Down: New Yorkie, say PUP
  • 47 Down: Delegate ASSIGN
  • 49 Down: Pull to open DRAW
  • 50 Down: Dilapidated RATTY
  • 51 Down: Moonfish OPAH
  • 52 Down: Yankees nickname until 2016 AROD
  • 53 Down: "My eye!" IBET
  • 54 Down: Wielder of a red lightsaber SITH
  • 60 Down: "Casablanca" role ILSA
  • 62 Down: Folk singer Guthrie ARLO
  • 63 Down: Approaching NEARTO
  • 64 Down: 1964's Nobel Peace laureate, for short MLK
  • 65 Down: Common bridge bid, informally ONENO
  • 67 Down: Spanish "she" ELLA
  • 68 Down: Kristen of "Bridesmaids" WIIG
  • 69 Down: Slushy brand ICEE
  • 70 Down: Press IRON
  • 71 Down: Protein-building acid, informally AMINO
  • 72 Down: Treat again, as a sprain REICE
  • 73 Down: Actress Falco EDIE
  • 77 Down: Clammy DAMP
  • 78 Down: "Heeere's Johnny!" announcer EDMCMAHON
  • 79 Down: Measure against COMPARETO
  • 80 Down: Tree branch or power line, for a bird PERCH
  • 81 Down: One making an impression? MIMIC
  • 82 Down: Woman honored in John Lennon's "Woman" ONO
  • 86 Down: Where boaters hang with bowlers HATTREES
  • 87 Down: Hyatt alternative OMNI
  • 88 Down: Spore-producing plant FERN
  • 89 Down: Transport (around) CART
  • 90 Down: Castle in "Hamlet" ELSINORE
  • 97 Down: Heart of the matter MEAT
  • 98 Down: Subject for van Gogh IRISES
  • 99 Down: Aurora's counterpart in Greek mythology EOS
  • 100 Down: Lit AFIRE
  • 102 Down: Big name in movie theaters REGAL
  • 104 Down: First-year West Pointer PLEBE
  • 105 Down: Olympic blades EPEES
  • 106 Down: "No man is an island" writer DONNE
  • 107 Down: Was over ENDED
  • 108 Down: Glides high SOARS
  • 109 Down: Middle: Abbr. CTR
  • 110 Down: Noted Art Deco designer ERTE
  • 115 Down: Sponsored spots ADS
  • 116 Down: Persian or Abyssinian CAT
  • 117 Down: Enero a diciembre ANO
  • 118 Down: Domino dot PIP
  • 120 Down: "Yeah, right!" HAH
Show the solved grid
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