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NYT Crossword — February 1, 2026

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 136 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

57 clues

1Meter in a video game showing a character's health

8Relative of a gazelle

14Office square

20Food additive named one of Time's 50 Worst Inventions

21Keep cruising, say

22On which Apple Pay can be used

23Canio in "Pagliacci," e.g.?

25Noxious atmosphere

26Prefix with business

27"My house, my rules"

28QB Drew whom Tom Brady ultimately replaced

29Get tuckered out

32Indian wedding wear

35Grab the chips and dip?

40Atomic bond, essentially?

45Many visitors to national parks

46Nearsighted person

47Messing up on the big screen

51Italy's third-largest island (after Sicily and Sardinia)

52Subterranean adventurer

54"Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" show tune)

58Cute, cutesily

61Dropbox and Roblox

62Hailed vehicle

64Show interruptions

65Some electrolysis targets?

71Partner of vigor

72Letter symbolizing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius

73"Downton Abbey" countess

74Warm winter coats

76Like some early education, for short

80City where LeBron James was born

82Bit of a character?

84Conspiring (with)

86Spice Girl alongside Baby, Ginger, Scary and Posh

88"Mainsail hoisted, check! Hatches battened, check!"?

94Shark's singing rival in "West Side Story"?

98Yankee great Gehrig

99Something a judge shouldn't have

100Very rude email, informally

112Two-___ schooner

113Frozen treat for Bruins fans?

117Lacking scruples

119Noted early riser

120With a level head

122Embarrassing items to have revealed on an airport X-ray

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1Person from the neighborhood

2Volunteer's offer

4Maker of Bikini So Teeny nail polish

5Breakthrough K-pop group

6Horror director Aster

7Most suggestive

8Like the Eid al-Fitr festival

9Department store eponym

10Pale lager, informally

11___ gobi (Indian potato dish)

13___ Taylor (fashion retailer)

14Home of the Preakness Stakes

15Early TV role for Ron Howard

16Atlantic fish

17Like Frisbees and some salads

19Hard-boiled Chinese snack

24Sapporo competitor

28Bowler's edge

31Fixes, as a driveway

32Cake not to be eaten

33French for "after"

36Barry Bonds and Shohei Ohtani, notably, for short

37Hammer wielder

39Caustic solutions

40Mother of Helios, in myth

41Metaphor for a runaway success

42Gen Z put-down of an elder

43Bit of wisdom

48Arcane technique

49Iron-rich variety of fertile soil

50Exclamations in nurseries

52Lead-in to "tech"

53Primatologist's interest

55Give the cold shoulder, with "out"

56Grating voice

59Common diner order

60Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting

63Photog's undergrad degree

66Stick on a table

67Like Volvo and Nokia, by origin

68Gold, in Guadalajara

69London granny

70Standard battle wear

75Vodka in blue bottles

77New Zealander

79One studied in the art of invisibility

83Govt. campaign watchdog

85Scottish refusals

86Loretta of "M*A*S*H"

87Small keg size

90Director Kazan

91Neighbors of premolars

92Audibly shocked

93Landlords, more formally

94Pack carriers

101Fill in a mill

102Right-hand page

103Strike zone?

104Mike or Michael in movies

106Raison d'___

107Close up tight

108Invitation letters

109Uber predictions, in brief

113Zippo competitor

114Co-producer of the documentary "The Beatles: Get Back"

115"The Bells" poet

116Fenway team, familiarly

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Stats & info

Sunday, Feb 1, 2026

21×21

Grid size

136

Total entries

76/365

Black / letter cells

5.4

Avg entry length

19 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedFeb 1, 2026

DaySunday

ThemeComical Mutation

ConstructorLance Enfinger and John Kugelman

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split57 across · 79 down

Longest entries

65ASome electrolysis targets?19 ltrs 40AAtomic bond, essentially?18 ltrs 88A"Mainsail hoisted, check! Hatches battened, check!"?18 ltrs 23ACanio in "Pagliacci," e.g.?14 ltrs 113AFrozen treat for Bruins fans?14 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 76 black squares and averages 5.4 letters per entry.