Daily Puzzle Solution
LA Times Crossword
Saturday, February 21, 2026
The Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, February 21, 2026 features 72 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "karatechop".
Total Clues
72
Longest
karatechop
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
HER
ALLComplete Solution List
"Hold my beer"
9watchthis
Forest
4kelp
"It's not up to me"
9ifyouwant
Obsession
5MANIA
Ask away
9dontbeshy
Quirkily creative
5ARTSY
Leaves home?
4TREE
Put on board
4LADE
Board game
5DARTS
Pronoun option
3HER
Radiation that triggers vitamin D synthesis, for short
3uvb
Lineup of runners?
5slate
Used a prayer rug
5KNELT
Supreme Theban deity
6AMENRA
Mexico City's ___ de la Reforma
5PASEO
Truce
9arewecool
As soon as
4ONCE
Natl. Merit Scholarship qualifying exams
5psats
Dance with a kahiko style
4HULA
Small beard
9soulpatch
Amounts on some bottles
5doses
Sportscaster Dick with the catchphrase "Touch 'em all!"
6enberg
Tilt
5TIPUP
___ fare-thee-well.
5ADIEU
Top suit
3CEO
Toe bean spot
3PAW
Shots after whiffs, say
5redos
Polish place
4NAIL
Not again!
4SIGH
"Wicked" star
5erivo
Count me in
9imsothere
Assumption
5GIVEN
Suit perfectly
9fittoatee
Forward thinker?
4SEER
"Why not both"
9yesandyes
Mover's concern
5width
"Loch Lomond" preposition
5afore
Pianist McCoy who played with the John Coltrane Quartet
5tyner
Home on an apartment building's roof, maybe
4cote
Carrier base
3hub
Not quite a teen
6twelve
Lives it up
9HASABLAST
Clear for all to see, so to speak
4inhd
Lid blemishes
5styes
Handy maneuver?
10karatechop
Confidentially
9ENTRENOUS
Lay out
4list
Foots
4PAYS
Nice thing to call someone?
6madame
Shedding card game
3uno
Code components
4LAWS
Succumbed to gravity
10keeledover
Leaflet
5TRACT
Part of a play list?
4role
Woe is me!
4ALAS
False front
4POSE
Mystery author, briefly
4anon
Get tanked on a tropical vacation?
9scubadive
People with concerns about trolleys?
9ethicists
Resident of D.C.'s Daniel Webster Hall
4page
Orange Is the New Black setting
6PRISON
Couple
3DUO
Cesta-slung sphere
6PELOTA
Bring together
5UNIFY
Reverence
5PIETY
Concur
5AGREE
Carnival cries
5whees
Policies, for short
4regs
Put-In-Bay's lake
4ERIE
Femme friend
4AMIE
Roe source
4SHAD
100 runs, for a cricketer
3ton
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