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NYT Crossword — February 4, 2026

Wednesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

39 clues

1Indian megacity of 16+ million

6Talks too much

11Text initialism that's the name of a 2010 Usher hit

14Like some walls at Harvard and Dartmouth

15"Casablanca" actor's nickname

16Actress Long or Peeples

17Native American rite of passage

19Explosive item for Wile E. Coyote

20"I wish it were so"

21Behavioral quirk

22Clarified butter

23Roof type with removable panels

25Girl encouraged to wake up, in a 1957 #1 Everly Brothers hit

27Heartbeat tests, in brief

30Jewish rite of passage

34L.L.Bean competitor

35"___ of Dogs" (2018 film)

36Occurring at an appropriate moment

37N.F.L. player in a purple uniform

39What might help someone be loud and clear?

42"I'll be right with you"

46Lead-in to X, Y or Z

47Amish rite of passage

49More than giga-, less than peta-

50Really plague

51Each "point" of Taurus's horns, e.g.

57Beethoven work originally titled "Bonaparte," after Napoleon

62"Seinfeld" catchphrase ... or, when parsed as three words, how a participant of 17-, 30- or 47-Across might be greeted?

64Dallas baller

65Kind of pipe or patch

66Like an Islay single malt, to Scotch enthusiasts

67Ball one or ball two?

68Great Plains nation

69Pittsburgh-based industrial giant

Down

39 clues

1Melodramatic sort

2Like Cinderella's stepmother

3Rapper in K-pop's Blackpink

4Jobs in "Heat" and "Ocean's Eleven"

5Lead-in to know or care

6Potato chip flavor, informally

8Workplace concern for seniors

9British cookie

1010 squats at the gym, perhaps

11Facing an imminent prospect (of)

12"None for you!"

13Right out of the ___

18Rookies, to gamers

24Sources of lines for a reading, maybe

26Like some upper lips and drinks

27Unforced ___ (athlete's concern)

28Reeves of "Hardball"

31Ruler's length?

32Cuff or hem, say

33Any of Scar's underlings in "The Lion King"

35Unfit for the job

38Bar exam component

43Completely collapses

45Like some Quaker products

48Where you are when in Roma

49Cement spreader

52Snack similar to a gordita

54Site for online bids

56Foundry waste

58Part of a line at an Apple Store

59Adversary of Julius Caesar

60Actress Taylor-Joy of "The Gorge"

62"The Penguin" airer

63Foundry material

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

4.9

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedFeb 4, 2026

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorHanh Huynh and Ted Mayer

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split39 across · 39 down

Longest entries

17ANative American rite of passage11 ltrs 62A"Seinfeld" catchphrase ... or, when parsed as three words, how a participant of 17-, 30- or 47-Across might be greeted?11 ltrs 30AJewish rite of passage10 ltrs 47AAmish rite of passage10 ltrs 11DFacing an imminent prospect (of)10 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 4.9 letters per entry.