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NYT Crossword — February 7, 2026

Saturday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 62 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

0 of 62 revealed

1W

2A

3F

4F

5L

6E

7M

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11R

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15S

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18D

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19G

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26C

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27R

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28R

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29S

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31D

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Across

27 clues

1Breakfast bar item

12Summer picnic side dish

14Homo sapiens, e.g.

16Curio shop treasure

17Singer with the 2016 Grammy-winning soul ballad "Cranes in the Sky"

18Losing propositions?

19Keep-on-keeping-on quality

21Cause for getting stuck

22Not, colloquially

24Airbnb inclusion, usually

25Some control buttons

26Like hand-to-hand fighting

28On the starting line

29Over/under and point spread

31Small squeeze from a tube

34Dome-shaped Buddhist shrine

35Fancy-schmancy

36Pronoun in Texas

37Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio

38"OMG"-evoking deed

39Use for a yew

40As good as it gets

42Isle of Sappho

43They make low digits smaller

46What a pitcher tries to do

47Former e-book devices, until 2014

Down

35 clues

1Can't keep on topic

2Sharpshooter's asset

3Preps for surgery, perhaps

4Wear out around the edges

5First name in Universal horror

6Seldom-used PC key

7Long shot practice

8"Save me ___!"

9Pauline ___, former New Yorker film critic

10Classic Chevy model

11Not fair, in a way

12Strip down the Interstate

13Student's goal

14"That can't possibly be right!"

15Enjoying recognition

19One of many in a bee, typically

20Reptile with a colorful name

23Having lost all its fizz

24Isn't keeping up

26Michael who plays Allan in "Barbie"

27"Divergent" author Veronica

28Ensnare for, as some undertakings

29A heavy drinker may be found in one

30Woolen leggings, as worn by W.W. I soldiers

31Physiques that have gone a little soft

32Former veep with a Nobel Prize

33"___ This Mess"

34Opening for a mail carrier

36Private reply

38One of Oberon's subjects

39Author of "Steppenwolf"

41Street ending at Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle

42Wrote fiction?

44Many a professional office: Abbr.

45The Hornets, on scoreboards

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Stats & info

Saturday, Feb 7, 2026

15×15

Grid size

62

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

6.2

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hardest

Saturday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedFeb 7, 2026

DaySaturday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorMark Diehl

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split27 across · 35 down

Longest entries

14AHomo sapiens, e.g.15 ltrs 43AThey make low digits smaller15 ltrs 12ASummer picnic side dish13 ltrs 46AWhat a pitcher tries to do13 ltrs 1ABreakfast bar item11 ltrs

Saturday is the hardest grid of the week, themeless and clued as obliquely as the editor allows. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 6.2 letters per entry.