NYT Crossword Answers 02/22/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Ease up ABATE
• 6A Setting for a landscape CANVAS
• 12A Like pickles, but not cucumbers ACIDIC
• 18A Turn up LOCATE
• 20A If all goes perfectly ATBEST
• 21A Certain head jurors FOREMEN
• 23A Like some 401(k) contributions PRETAX
• 24A The Ten Plagues DEATHONTHENILE
• 26A Freeze HALT
• 27A Bolo, e.g. TIE
• 29A Farmyard call BAA
• 30A Print-ready EDITED
• 31A Sodom and Gomorrah ATALEOFTWOCITIES
• 37A Literary fairy queen MAB
• 38A Outpouring of Pandora’s box ILLS
• 39A Erelong ANON
• 40A Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr. FRI
• 41A Singsong syllable TRA
• 43A Season ticket holders, presumably FANS
• 45A Shoofly desserts PIES
• 46A Hopeless from the start, for short DOA
• 48A Janis ___, “At Seventeen” singer IAN
• 49A Samson and Delilah DANGEROUSLIAISONS
• 55A Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel OTT
• 56A Fix RIG
• 57A Calendar notation: Abbr. APPT
• 58A Diamond stats RBIS
• 59A Certain trig functions SINES
• 61A So-called “Hollywood of the South” ATLANTA
• 64A Big name in bubbly MOET
• 65A Painter’s medium OIL
• 66A Noah’s Ark WHERETHEWILDTHINGSARE
• 74A Nonclerical LAY
• 75A Get the better of LICK
• 76A Like Constantinople, in 1930 RENAMED
• 77A Interior style DECOR
• 80A Ballet bend PLIE
• 81A Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter MOON
• 83A The third III
• 84A Ruckus ADO
• 85A Garden of Eden THEAGEOFINNOCENCE
• 91A “Scrumdiddlyumptious!” MMM
• 92A Crew need OAR
• 93A Get the ___ (finally become aware) MEMO
• 94A Ingredient in some gels ALOE
• 95A Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief PCP
• 96A Vintage film channel TCM
• 98A Letters on a crucifix INRI
• 99A Word with rabbit or all EARS
• 101A Sully MAR
• 103A Moses Parting the Red Sea THEPRINCEOFTIDES
• 109A Rush uncontrolledly CAREER
• 111A Most common last name in Somalia ALI
• 112A Pressure meas. PSI
• 113A It’s verboten NONO
• 114A Jonah and the Whale THEGREATESCAPE
• 119A Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit RHONDA
• 121A Took turns ROTATED
• 122A Brimless topper BEANIE
• 123A One bringing home the bacon EARNER
• 124A Surprisingly enough NOLESS
• 125A Bars, legally ESTOPS
• 126A Follows HEEDS

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Leader of the pack ALPHA
• 2D 2006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist BORAT
• 3D High-speed travel option ACELA
• 4D Squealer’s activity TATTLING
• 5D H, to Hera ETA
• 6D West Pointer CADET
• 7D Thoroughly enjoyed, with “up” ATE
• 8D Org. with the Nuggets and Nets NBA
• 9D Screen VET
• 10D Rubbish receptacle ASHBIN
• 11D Weasel with a black-tipped tail STOAT
• 12D Where the coxswain sits AFT
• 13D Unity COHESION
• 14D In a fury IRED
• 15D Blue material DENIM
• 16D Counterfeit IMITATION
• 17D Whoop it up CELEBRATE
• 19D Glorify EXTOL
• 22D ___ Stark, “Game of Thrones” patriarch NED
• 25D Gullible sort NAIF
• 28D Hypotheticals IFS
• 32D Besides ELSE
• 33D Part of a trunk WAIST
• 34D First-year law student, informally ONEL
• 35D “___ Fan Tutte” COSI
• 36D Mathematician Paul ERDOS
• 42D ___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins) ANTS
• 43D Confidence FAITH
• 44D What may be right but not left? ANGLE
• 45D New Yorkie, say PUP
• 47D Delegate ASSIGN
• 49D Pull to open DRAW
• 50D Dilapidated RATTY
• 51D Moonfish OPAH
• 52D Yankees nickname until 2016 AROD
• 53D “My eye!” IBET
• 54D Wielder of a red lightsaber SITH
• 60D “Casablanca” role ILSA
• 62D Folk singer Guthrie ARLO
• 63D Approaching NEARTO
• 64D 1964’s Nobel Peace laureate, for short MLK
• 65D Common bridge bid, informally ONENO
• 67D Spanish “she” ELLA
• 68D Kristen of “Bridesmaids” WIIG
• 69D Slushy brand ICEE
• 70D Press IRON
• 71D Protein-building acid, informally AMINO
• 72D Treat again, as a sprain REICE
• 73D Actress Falco EDIE
• 77D Clammy DAMP
• 78D “Heeere’s Johnny!” announcer EDMCMAHON
• 79D Measure against COMPARETO
• 80D Tree branch or power line, for a bird PERCH
• 81D One making an impression? MIMIC
• 82D Woman honored in John Lennon’s “Woman” ONO
• 86D Where boaters hang with bowlers HATTREES
• 87D Hyatt alternative OMNI
• 88D Spore-producing plant FERN
• 89D Transport (around) CART
• 90D Castle in “Hamlet” ELSINORE
• 97D Heart of the matter MEAT
• 98D Subject for van Gogh IRISES
• 99D Aurora’s counterpart in Greek mythology EOS
• 100D Lit AFIRE
• 102D Big name in movie theaters REGAL
• 104D First-year West Pointer PLEBE
• 105D Olympic blades EPEES
• 106D “No man is an island” writer DONNE
• 107D Was over ENDED
• 108D Glides high SOARS
• 109D Middle: Abbr. CTR
• 110D Noted Art Deco designer ERTE
• 115D Sponsored spots ADS
• 116D Persian or Abyssinian CAT
• 117D Enero a diciembre ANO
• 118D Domino dot PIP
• 120D “Yeah, right!” HAH