Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, February 23, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, February 23, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "ROLEREVERSALS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
ROLEREVERSALS
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
RAG
Featured Clue
"Psychotherapy switcheroos ... or what are hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 59-Across?"
13 Letters
ROLEREVERSALS
ALLComplete Solution List
Buffoons
5BOZOS
Paula of "American Idol"
5ABDUL
Final use for an old T-shirt
3RAG
Enraged
5IRATE
What "my guitar gently" does, in a classic George Harrison song
5WEEPS
Mesozoic or Paleozoic
3ERA
Home for a single guy
11BACHELORPAD
Animation sheet
3CEL
Hole for threading a lace
6EYELET
___fide: genuine
4BONA
"Please like and subscribe" and the like, on YouTube videos
6OUTROS
Dr. Seuss book with the quote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
8THELORAX
Today!
3USA
Kind of computer port
3USB
Like the smell of trees
6WOODSY
Showed again
5RERAN
Zoom past
6RACEBY
Psychotherapy switcheroos ... or what are hidden in 17-, 25-, 50- and 59-Across?
13ROLEREVERSALS
Text on a red, white and blue sticker
6IVOTED
Gender-neutral possessive
5THEIR
Ran after
6CHASED
Opposite of WNW
3ESE
To and ___
3FRO
Time machine car in "Back to the Future"
8DELOREAN
Made a grand speech
6ORATED
Brother of Abel
4CAIN
Times between dusk and dawn
6NIGHTS
Had lunch, say
3ATE
Fruit with a "bellybutton"
11NAVELORANGE
What planets revolve around
3SUN
How often the time is 12:00 each day
5TWICE
Decorate
5ADORN
Mini-albums
3EPS
__ of Troy
5HELEN
Sat for a portrait
5POSED
Accessory for a baby in a highchair
3BIB
British singer Rita
3ORA
Efron of "The Greatest Showman"
3ZAC
Last multiple-choice option, often
5OTHER
Rude goodbye to an enemy
11SEEYOUNEVER
Soldier who has failed to report
4AWOL
Military cap
5BERET
One of the three dimensions
5DEPTH
Kick ___ fuss
3UPA
Counterculture drug, in brief
3LSD
4.75 seconds to assemble a Mr. Potato Head, per Guinness
6RECORD
Concert venues
6ARENAS
Milky Way, e.g.
6GALAXY
Not as much
4LESS
"I crushed it!!!"
6BOOYAH
Not just my
3OUR
__-friendly
4USER
Root used in making poi
4TARO
Large jug
4EWER
Cage for crustaceans
11LOBSTERTRAP
American Psycho author __ Easton Ellis
4BRET
Cartoonist Bechdel
6ALISON
Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare)
3AVE
Give up
4CEDE
Was a passenger
4RODE
Democrats and Socialists, with "the"
4LEFT
Father
4SIRE
Axle, e.g.
3ROD
Jewel box
6CDCASE
Start to escalate
6HEATUP
Extraterrestrials
6ALIENS
London theater district
4SOHO
Object hitting people's heads in old cartoons
5ANVIL
Sibling's daughter
5NIECE
South American barbecue
5ASADO
Valley
4GLEN
High degree
3NTH
Response to seeing an aurora, maybe
3AWE
Rejections
3NOS
College sr.'s test
3GRE
63-Down, in this puzzle
3END