NYT Crossword February 7, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Breakfast bar item 11 12A Summer picnic side dish 13 14A Homo sapiens, e.g. 15 16A Curio shop treasure 6 17A Singer with the 2016 Grammy-winning soul ballad "Cranes in the Sky" 7 18A Losing propositions? 5 19A Keep-on-keeping-on quality 4 21A Cause for getting stuck 4 22A Not, colloquially 4 23A Misdirect 4 24A Airbnb inclusion, usually 5 25A Some control buttons 3 26A Like hand-to-hand fighting 10 28A On the starting line 9 29A Over/under and point spread 10 31A Small squeeze from a tube 3 34A Dome-shaped Buddhist shrine 5 35A Fancy-schmancy 4 36A Pronoun in Texas 4 37A Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio 4 38A "OMG"-evoking deed 4 39A Use for a yew 5 40A As good as it gets 7 42A Isle of Sappho 6 43A They make low digits smaller 15 46A What a pitcher tries to do 13 47A Former e-book devices, until 2014 11

Down

1D Can't keep on topic 7 2D Sharpshooter's asset 6 3D Preps for surgery, perhaps 5 4D Wear out around the edges 4 5D First name in Universal horror 3 6D Seldom-used PC key 3 7D Long shot practice 11 8D "Save me ___!" 5 9D Pauline ___, former New Yorker film critic 4 10D Classic Chevy model 8 11D Not fair, in a way 7 12D Strip down the Interstate 6 13D Student's goal 6 14D "That can't possibly be right!" 5 15D Enjoying recognition 4 19D One of many in a bee, typically 11 20D Reptile with a colorful name 7 23D Having lost all its fizz 4 24D Isn't keeping up 4 26D Michael who plays Allan in "Barbie" 4 27D "Divergent" author Veronica 4 28D Ensnare for, as some undertakings 8 29D A heavy drinker may be found in one 6 30D Woolen leggings, as worn by W.W. I soldiers 7 31D Physiques that have gone a little soft 7 32D Former veep with a Nobel Prize 6 33D "___ This Mess" 5 34D Opening for a mail carrier 4 36D Private reply 6 38D One of Oberon's subjects 5 39D Author of "Steppenwolf" 5 41D Street ending at Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle 4 42D Wrote fiction? 4 44D Many a professional office: Abbr. 3 45D The Hornets, on scoreboards 3