NYT Crossword Answers 02/01/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Meter in a video game showing a character’s health LIFEBAR
• 8A Relative of a gazelle IMPALA
• 14A Office square POSTIT
• 20A Food additive named one of Time’s 50 Worst Inventions OLESTRA
• 21A Keep cruising, say SAILON
• 22A On which Apple Pay can be used IPHONE
• 23A Canio in “Pagliacci,” e.g.? CLASSICALCLOWN
• 25A Noxious atmosphere MIASMA
• 26A Prefix with business AGRI
• 27A “My house, my rules” ISAYSO
• 28A QB Drew whom Tom Brady ultimately replaced BLEDSOE
• 29A Get tuckered out LOSESTEAM
• 32A Indian wedding wear SARI
• 34A School subj. ENG
• 35A Grab the chips and dip? CASHIN
• 37A News hound? TOPICALDOG
• 40A Atomic bond, essentially? TWOPARTICLEHARMONY
• 45A Many visitors to national parks HIKERS
• 46A Nearsighted person MYOPE
• 47A Messing up on the big screen DEBRA
• 51A Italy’s third-largest island (after Sicily and Sardinia) ELBA
• 52A Subterranean adventurer CAVER
• 54A “Aaron Burr, ___” (“Hamilton” show tune) SIR
• 57A Great number SLEW
• 58A Cute, cutesily ADORBS
• 61A Dropbox and Roblox APPS
• 62A Hailed vehicle CAB
• 64A Show interruptions ADS
• 65A Some electrolysis targets? FOLLICLESONONESFACE
• 71A Partner of vigor VIM
• 72A Letter symbolizing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius TAU
• 73A “Downton Abbey” countess CORA
• 74A Warm winter coats PARKAS
• 76A Like some early education, for short PREK
• 78A W.C. sign MEN
• 80A City where LeBron James was born AKRON
• 81A Blemish MARK
• 82A Bit of a character? SERIF
• 84A Conspiring (with) INBED
• 86A Spice Girl alongside Baby, Ginger, Scary and Posh SPORTY
• 88A “Mainsail hoisted, check! Hatches battened, check!”? WERENAUTICALWORTHY
• 94A Shark’s singing rival in “West Side Story”? LYRICALJET
• 97A Corral CAGEIN
• 98A Yankee great Gehrig LOU
• 99A Something a judge shouldn’t have BIAS
• 100A Very rude email, informally NASTYGRAM
• 105A Never mind? AMNESIA
• 108A Neglectful REMISS
• 111A Bank (on) RELY
• 112A Two-___ schooner MASTED
• 113A Frozen treat for Bruins fans? BOSTONPOPSICLE
• 117A Lacking scruples AMORAL
• 118A Storm, say INVADE
• 119A Noted early riser ROOSTER
• 120A With a level head SANELY
• 121A Thickets COPSES
• 122A Embarrassing items to have revealed on an airport X-ray SEXTOYS

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Person from the neighborhood LOCAL
• 2D Volunteer’s offer ILLGO
• 3D Bogeymen FEARS
• 4D Maker of Bikini So Teeny nail polish ESSIE
• 5D Breakthrough K-pop group BTS
• 6D Horror director Aster ARI
• 7D Most suggestive RACIEST
• 8D Like the Eid al-Fitr festival ISLAMIC
• 9D Department store eponym MACY
• 10D Pale lager, informally PILS
• 11D ___ gobi (Indian potato dish) ALOO
• 12D Feeling down LOW
• 13D ___ Taylor (fashion retailer) ANN
• 14D Home of the Preakness Stakes PIMLICO
• 15D Early TV role for Ron Howard OPIE
• 16D Atlantic fish SHAD
• 17D Like Frisbees and some salads TOSSED
• 18D Not stereo INMONO
• 19D Hard-boiled Chinese snack TEAEGG
• 24D Sapporo competitor ASAHI
• 28D Bowler’s edge BRIM
• 30D Blemish SCAR
• 31D Fixes, as a driveway TARS
• 32D Cake not to be eaten SOAP
• 33D French for “after” APRES
• 36D Barry Bonds and Shohei Ohtani, notably, for short NLMVPS
• 37D Hammer wielder THOR
• 38D Furthermore AND
• 39D Caustic solutions LYES
• 40D Mother of Helios, in myth THEA
• 41D Metaphor for a runaway success WILDFIRE
• 42D Gen Z put-down of an elder OKBOOMER
• 43D Bit of wisdom PEARL
• 44D Orbit EYESOCKET
• 48D Arcane technique BLACKART
• 49D Iron-rich variety of fertile soil REDEARTH
• 50D Exclamations in nurseries AWS
• 52D Lead-in to “tech” CAL
• 53D Primatologist’s interest APE
• 55D Give the cold shoulder, with “out” ICE
• 56D Grating voice RASP
• 59D Common diner order BLT
• 60D Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting SIAM
• 63D Photog’s undergrad degree BFA
• 66D Stick on a table CUE
• 67D Like Volvo and Nokia, by origin NORDIC
• 68D Gold, in Guadalajara ORO
• 69D London granny NAN
• 70D Standard battle wear ARMOR
• 71D No. 2’s VPS
• 75D Vodka in blue bottles SKYY
• 77D New Zealander KIWI
• 79D One studied in the art of invisibility NINJA
• 80D Touch ABUT
• 83D Govt. campaign watchdog FEC
• 85D Scottish refusals NAES
• 86D Loretta of “M*A*S*H” SWIT
• 87D Small keg size PONY
• 89D With zeal RABIDLY
• 90D Director Kazan ELIA
• 91D Neighbors of premolars CANINES
• 92D Audibly shocked AGASP
• 93D Landlords, more formally LESSORS
• 94D Pack carriers LLAMAS
• 95D Crack open? YOMAMA
• 96D Is fueled by RUNSON
• 101D Fill in a mill GRIST
• 102D Right-hand page RECTO
• 103D Strike zone? ALLEY
• 104D Mike or Michael in movies MYERS
• 106D Raison d’___ ETRE
• 107D Close up tight SEAL
• 108D Invitation letters RSVP
• 109D Uber predictions, in brief ETAS
• 110D Style MODE
• 113D Zippo competitor BIC
• 114D Co-producer of the documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” ONO
• 115D “The Bells” poet POE
• 116D Fenway team, familiarly SOX