Newsday Crossword February 16, 2026 Answers

Across

Pets that purr4 __ now (so far)4 Showroom sample, for short4 Pleasant scent5 Copenhagen native4 Villainous4 Attach, as a shirt button5 Arm or leg4 Sheet of glass4 Motorless sky ride for one person10 Poems of praise4 Scientist's research room3 Say out loud5 Rags-to-__ story6 "Constrictor" snakes4 Fire remnants5 Sky ride with a jet engine8 Great enthusiasm4 Ahead of schedule5 Decide not to include4 Gasoline-powered sky-ride balloon8 Refrigerates5 Any precious stones4 "Hee-haw!" horse relative6 Ice cream utensil5 __ sauce (sushi condiment)3 White precious stone4 Sky ride that can hover10 Sudden police action4 Getting rain rarely4 Gray stocking shade5 Farmland measure4 Three-quarters of 124 Bert's Sesame Street pal5 Explorer Ponce de __4 Golfer's pegs4 Bulletin board fastener4

Down

__ register (checkout machine)4 Vicinity4 Small city4 Urban pollution4 Off-script remark5 Remarked4 "It's my treat!"4 Shortest month of the year8 Train station5 Manage to elude5 Worker digging for coal5 Spanish cheers4 Right __ (90-degree shapes)6 __ Vegas, NV3 Small amount of sugar: Abbr.3 Make fun of, informally4 "It makes sense now"4 British fellow4 Lend a hand4 Buildings with haylofts5 Auto lubricant3 Lake bird4 Run __ (rage)4 Major Egyptian river4 Handicrafts website4 Big beast with a trunk8 "We __ to please"3 Self-image3 Western howling canine6 Physician, for short3 Parking lot spot5 Capital of Egypt5 __ days (long ago)5 Competing teams5 Spoken out loud4 A Great Lake4 Row of people waiting4 Role for an actor4 __ fish sandwich4 Long, heroic tale4 Smell bad4