Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, February 7, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, February 7, 2026 features 62 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 6.2 letters. The longest answer is "GENUSANDSPECIES".
Total Clues
62
Longest
GENUSANDSPECIES
Avg Length
6.2
Shortest
ONS
Featured Clue
"Homo sapiens, e.g."
15 Letters
GENUSANDSPECIES
ALLComplete Solution List
Breakfast bar item
11WAFFLEMAKER
Summer picnic side dish
13MACARONISALAD
Homo sapiens, e.g.
15GENUSANDSPECIES
Curio shop treasure
6ODDITY
Singer with the 2016 Grammy-winning soul ballad "Cranes in the Sky"
7SOLANGE
Losing propositions?
5DIETS
Keep-on-keeping-on quality
4GRIT
Cause for getting stuck
4MIRE
Not, colloquially
4NARY
Misdirect
4FOOL
Airbnb inclusion, usually
5LINEN
Some control buttons
3ONS
Like hand-to-hand fighting
10CLOSERANGE
On the starting line
9READYTOGO
Over/under and point spread
10SPORTSBETS
Small squeeze from a tube
3DAB
Dome-shaped Buddhist shrine
5STUPA
Fancy-schmancy
4POSH
Pronoun in Texas
4YALL
Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio
4LUTE
"OMG"-evoking deed
4FEAT
Use for a yew
5HEDGE
As good as it gets
7OPTIMAL
Isle of Sappho
6LESBOS
They make low digits smaller
15TOENAILSCISSORS
What a pitcher tries to do
13RETIRETHESIDE
Former e-book devices, until 2014
11SONYREADERS
Can't keep on topic
7WANDERS
Sharpshooter's asset
6ACUITY
Preps for surgery, perhaps
5FASTS
Wear out around the edges
4FRAY
First name in Universal horror
3LON
Seldom-used PC key
3END
Long shot practice
11MISSILETEST
Save me ___
5ASPOT
Pauline ___, former New Yorker film critic
4KAEL
Classic Chevy model
8ELCAMINO
Not fair, in a way
7RAINING
Strip down the Interstate
6MEDIAN
Student's goal
6DEGREE
"That can't possibly be right!"
5GODNO
Enjoying recognition
4SEEN
One of many in a bee, typically
11GOODSPELLER
Reptile with a colorful name
7ROSYBOA
Having lost all its fizz
4FLAT
Isn't keeping up
4LAGS
Michael who plays Allan in "Barbie"
4CERA
Divergent author Veronica
4ROTH
Ensnare for, as some undertakings
8ROPEINTO
A heavy drinker may be found in one
6STUPOR
Woolen leggings, as worn by W.W. I soldiers
7PUTTEES
Physiques that have gone a little soft
7DADBODS
Former veep with a Nobel Prize
6ALGORE
"___ This Mess"
5BLESS
Opening for a mail carrier
4SLOT
Private reply?
6YESSIR
One of Oberon's subjects
5FAIRY
Author of "Steppenwolf"
5HESSE
Street ending at Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle
4MAIN
Wrote fiction
4LIED
Many a professional office: Abbr.
3STE
The Hornets, on scoreboards
3CHA