Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, February 18, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.1 letters. The longest answer is "winddirection".
Total Clues
74
Longest
winddirection
Avg Length
5.1
Shortest
SLY
ALLComplete Solution List
"__ Secretary": Téa Leoni drama
5madam
Sound effect made with coconut shells
4clop
Toy with a tail
4KITE
Horace composition
5epode
"Houdini" singer Dua
4lipa
2017 Tony winner "Come From __"
4away
"... and anything else that might come up"
10orwhatever
Hon
4BABE
"Second oboe, play the right notes this time!," e.g.
13winddirection
Sneaky
3SLY
Blood
3KIN
Ashram figure
4monk
"Sing your solo correctly for once!," e.g.
12voicecommand
Gnossiennes composer
5SATIE
Take a chance
4DARE
Online marketing strategy, for short
3seo
Count in the cereal aisle
7CHOCULA
Girl with a Pearl Earring painter
7VERMEER
__ Lingus
3AER
Invalidate
4VOID
Like a dive bar
5SEEDY
"Perform the music as written! No sharps or flats!," e.g.
12naturalorder
Lavish love (on)
4DOTE
Graphic opening?
3geo
Check out
3VET
"You must!," or how a demanding conductor would interpret 20-, 26-, and 45-Across
13itsimperative
Coil in a garden
4HOSE
Worker who tracks transactions
10bookkeeper
The America's Cup, for one
4ewer
Sea eagle
4ERNE
Signals from space, perhaps
5omens
Dumpster fire
4mess
Mary __ Lincoln
4TODD
Hospital employee
5NURSE
Feline chorus
5meows
National Scrabble Day month
5APRIL
Soft and fluffy
5DOWNY
Med. condition treated with Ritalin
4adhd
Medieval fair quaff
4mead
Healing character class in D&D
6cleric
Pepped up
7livened
Gp. founded in Baghdad
4OPEC
Hair line?
4PART
Explosive sound
6KABOOM
Lemme look!
9IWANNASEE
Open page on a web browser
3TAB
Cornea locale
3EYE
Polynesian carving
4TIKI
Plunge into liquid
7IMMERSE
Gave a leg up to
5KNEED
The Old __: London venue
3vic
Bodies of work
7OEUVRES
CLE player
3cav
Mine deposit
3ORE
Flat-bottomed fishing boat
4DORY
Airport security check
4scan
Up, in a way
5AHEAD
Giant Galápagos natives
9tortoises
Hawaiian for "long"
3LOA
Feel bad
3AIL
Large body of eau
3MER
Backyard feature for a water-loving pup
7dogpond
Says out loud
6UTTERS
Stunk
6REEKED
"How To __ Your Diary": interactive edition in a YA series
4dork
Bygone Dodge two-seater
5viper
Levels
5EVENS
Hardly rambling
5TERSE
Skeptical scoff
4IBET
__ reflex: infant's instinctive protective response
4moro
Millennia upon millennia
4AEON
Online discount marketplace
4temu
Haw counterpart
3hem
Be outstanding?
3OWE
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