NYT Crossword Answers 02/23/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Buffoons BOZOS
• 6A Paula of “American Idol” ABDUL
• 11A Final use for an old T-shirt RAG
• 14A Enraged IRATE
• 15A What “my guitar gently” does, in a classic George Harrison song WEEPS
• 16A Mesozoic or Paleozoic ERA
• 17A Home for a single guy BACHELORPAD
• 19A Animation sheet CEL
• 20A Hole for threading a lace EYELET
• 21A ___ fide (genuine) BONA
• 22A “Please like and subscribe” and the like, on YouTube videos OUTROS
• 25A Dr. Seuss book with the quote “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” THELORAX
• 28A ___ Today USA
• 29A Kind of computer port USB
• 31A Like the smell of trees WOODSY
• 32A Showed again RERAN
• 34A Zoom past RACEBY
• 37A Psychotherapy switcheroos … or what are hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 59-Across? ROLEREVERSALS
• 41A Text on a red, white and blue sticker IVOTED
• 42A Gender-neutral possessive THEIR
• 44A Ran after CHASED
• 47A Opposite of WNW ESE
• 49A To and ___ FRO
• 50A Time machine car in “Back to the Future” DELOREAN
• 53A Made a grand speech ORATED
• 55A Brother of Abel CAIN
• 56A Times between dusk and dawn NIGHTS
• 58A Had lunch, say ATE
• 59A Fruit with a “bellybutton” NAVELORANGE
• 64A What planets revolve around SUN
• 65A How often the time is 12:00 each day TWICE
• 66A Decorate ADORN
• 67A Mini-albums EPS
• 68A ___ of Troy HELEN
• 69A Sat for a portrait POSED

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Accessory for a baby in a highchair BIB
• 2D British singer Rita ORA
• 3D Efron of “The Greatest Showman” ZAC
• 4D Last multiple-choice option, often OTHER
• 5D Rude goodbye to an enemy SEEYOUNEVER
• 6D Soldier who has failed to report AWOL
• 7D Military cap BERET
• 8D One of the three dimensions DEPTH
• 9D Kick ___ fuss UPA
• 10D Counterculture drug, in brief LSD
• 11D 4.75 seconds to assemble a Mr. Potato Head, per Guinness RECORD
• 12D Concert venues ARENAS
• 13D Milky Way, e.g. GALAXY
• 18D Not as much LESS
• 21D “I crushed it!!!” BOOYAH
• 22D Not just my OUR
• 23D ___-friendly USER
• 24D Root used in making poi TARO
• 26D Large jug EWER
• 27D Cage for crustaceans LOBSTERTRAP
• 30D “American Psycho” author ___ Easton Ellis BRET
• 33D Cartoonist Bechdel ALISON
• 35D Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare) AVE
• 36D Give up CEDE
• 38D Was a passenger RODE
• 39D Democrats and Socialists, with “the” LEFT
• 40D Father SIRE
• 43D Axle, e.g. ROD
• 44D Jewel box CDCASE
• 45D Start to escalate HEATUP
• 46D Extraterrestrials ALIENS
• 48D London theater district SOHO
• 51D Object hitting people’s heads in old cartoons ANVIL
• 52D Sibling’s daughter NIECE
• 54D South American barbecue ASADO
• 57D Valley GLEN
• 59D High degree NTH
• 60D Response to seeing an aurora, maybe AWE
• 61D Rejections NOS
• 62D College sr.’s test GRE
• 63D 63-Down, in this puzzle END