Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, February 1, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, February 1, 2026 features 136 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "FOLLICLESONONESFACE".
Total Clues
136
Longest
FOLLICLESONONESFACE
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
ENG
Featured Clue
"<i>Some electrolysis targets?</i>"
19 Letters
FOLLICLESONONESFACE
ALLComplete Solution List
Meter in a video game showing a character's health
7LIFEBAR
Relative of a gazelle
6IMPALA
Office square
6POSTIT
Food additive named one of Time's 50 Worst Inventions
7OLESTRA
Keep cruising, say
6SAILON
On which Apple Pay can be used
6IPHONE
<i>Canio in "Pagliacci," e.g.?</i>
14CLASSICALCLOWN
Noxious atmosphere
6MIASMA
Prefix with business
4AGRI
"My house, my rules"
6ISAYSO
QB Drew whom Tom Brady ultimately replaced
7BLEDSOE
Get tuckered out
9LOSESTEAM
Indian wedding wear
4SARI
School subj.
3ENG
Grab the chips and dip?
6CASHIN
<i>News hound?</i>
10TOPICALDOG
<i>Atomic bond, essentially?</i>
18TWOPARTICLEHARMONY
Many visitors to national parks
6HIKERS
Nearsighted person
5MYOPE
Messing up on the big screen
5DEBRA
Italy's third-largest island, after Sicily and Sardinia
4ELBA
Subterranean adventurer
5CAVER
"Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" show tune)
3SIR
Great number
4SLEW
Cute, cutesily
6ADORBS
Dropbox and Roblox
4APPS
Hailed vehicle
3CAB
Show interruptions
3ADS
<i>Some electrolysis targets?</i>
19FOLLICLESONONESFACE
Partner of vigor
3VIM
Letter symbolizing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius
3TAU
Downton Abbey countess
4CORA
Warm winter coats
6PARKAS
Like some early education, for short
4PREK
W.C. sign
3MEN
City where LeBron James was born
5AKRON
Blemish
4MARK
Bit of a character
5SERIF
Conspiring (with)
5INBED
Spice Girl alongside Baby, Ginger, Scary and Posh
6SPORTY
<i>"Mainsail hoisted, check! Hatches battened, check!"?</i>
18WERENAUTICALWORTHY
<i>Shark's singing rival in "West Side Story"?</i>
10LYRICALJET
Corral
6CAGEIN
Yankee great Gehrig
3LOU
Something a judge shouldn't have
4BIAS
Very rude email, informally
9NASTYGRAM
Never mind
7AMNESIA
Neglectful
6REMISS
Bank on
4RELY
Two-___ schooner
6MASTED
<i>Frozen treat for Bruins fans?</i>
14BOSTONPOPSICLE
Lacking scruples
6AMORAL
Storm, say
6INVADE
Noted early riser
7ROOSTER
With a level head
6SANELY
Thickets
6COPSES
Embarrassing items to have revealed on an airport X-ray
7SEXTOYS
Person from the neighborhood
5LOCAL
Volunteer's offer
5ILLGO
Bogeymen
5FEARS
Maker of Bikini So Teeny nail polish
5ESSIE
Breakthrough K-pop group
3BTS
Horror director Aster
3ARI
Most suggestive
7RACIEST
Like the Eid al-Fitr festival
7ISLAMIC
Department store eponym
4MACY
Pale lager, informally
4PILS
___ gobi (Indian potato dish)
4ALOO
Feeling down
3LOW
___ Taylor (fashion retailer)
3ANN
Home of the Preakness Stakes
7PIMLICO
Early TV role for Ron Howard
4OPIE
Atlantic fish
4SHAD
Like Frisbees and some salads
6TOSSED
Not stereo
6INMONO
Hard-boiled Chinese snack
6TEAEGG
Sapporo competitor
5ASAHI
Bowler's edge
4BRIM
Blemish
4SCAR
Fixes, as a driveway
4TARS
Cake not to be eaten
4SOAP
French for "after"
5APRES
Barry Bonds and Shohei Ohtani, notably, for short
6NLMVPS
Hammer wielder
4THOR
Furthermore
3AND
Caustic solutions
4LYES
Mother of Helios, in myth
4THEA
Metaphor for a runaway success
8WILDFIRE
Gen Z put-down of an elder
8OKBOOMER
Bit of wisdom
5PEARL
Orbit
9EYESOCKET
Arcane technique
8BLACKART
Iron-rich variety of fertile soil
8REDEARTH
Exclamations in nurseries
3AWS
Lead-in to Tech
3CAL
Primatologist's interest
3APE
Give the cold shoulder, with "out"
3ICE
Grating voice
4RASP
Common diner order
3BLT
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting
4SIAM
Photog's undergrad degree
3BFA
Stick on a table
3CUE
Like Volvo and Nokia, by origin
6NORDIC
Gold, in Guadalajara
3ORO
London granny
3NAN
Standard battle wear
5ARMOR
No. 2's
3VPS
Vodka in blue bottles
4SKYY
New Zealander
4KIWI
One studied in the art of invisibility
5NINJA
Touch
4ABUT
Govt. campaign watchdog
3FEC
Scottish refusals
4NAES
Loretta of "M*A*S*H"
4SWIT
Small keg size
4PONY
With zeal
7RABIDLY
Director Kazan
4ELIA
Neighbors of premolars
7CANINES
Audibly shocked
5AGASP
Landlords, more formally
7LESSORS
Pack carriers
6LLAMAS
Crack open
6YOMAMA
Is fueled by
6RUNSON
Fill in a mill
5GRIST
Right-hand page
5RECTO
Strike zone?
5ALLEY
Mike or Michael in movies
5MYERS
Raison d'__
4ETRE
Close up tight
4SEAL
Invitation letters
4RSVP
Uber predictions, in brief
4ETAS
Style
4MODE
Zippo competitor
3BIC
Co-producer of the documentary "The Beatles: Get Back"
3ONO
The Bells poet
3POE
Fenway team, familiarly
3SOX