Newsday Crossword February 16 2026 Answers (2/16/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for February 16 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword February 16, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

There is a new puzzle to work through each day of the week. This crossword is considered to be balanced between being fun and engaging with some challenge but entirely solvable without tearing one’s hair out!

Newsday Crossword February 16, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 2/16/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Pets that purr
5A __ now (so far)
9A Showroom sample, for short
13A Pleasant scent
15A Copenhagen native
16A Villainous
17A Attach, as a shirt button
18A Arm or leg
19A Sheet of glass
20A Motorless sky ride for one person
22A Poems of praise
23A Scientist's research room
24A Say out loud
26A Rags-to-__ story
30A "Constrictor" snakes
32A Fire remnants
33A Sky ride with a jet engine
38A Great enthusiasm
39A Ahead of schedule
41A Decide not to include
42A Gasoline-powered sky-ride balloon
44A Refrigerates
45A Any precious stones
46A "Hee-haw!" horse relative
47A Ice cream utensil
50A __ sauce (sushi condiment)
51A White precious stone
52A Sky ride that can hover
59A Sudden police action
60A Getting rain rarely
61A Gray stocking shade
62A Farmland measure
63A Three-quarters of 12
64A Bert's Sesame Street pal
65A Explorer Ponce de __
66A Golfer's pegs
67A Bulletin board fastener
1D __ register (checkout machine)
2D Vicinity
3D Small city
4D Urban pollution
5D Off-script remark
6D Remarked
7D "It's my treat!"
8D Shortest month of the year
9D Train station
10D Manage to elude
11D Worker digging for coal
12D Spanish cheers
14D Right __ (90-degree shapes)
21D __ Vegas, NV
25D Small amount of sugar: Abbr.
26D Make fun of, informally
27D "It makes sense now"
28D British fellow
29D Lend a hand
30D Buildings with haylofts
31D Auto lubricant
34D Lake bird
35D Run __ (rage)
36D Major Egyptian river
37D Handicrafts website
39D Big beast with a trunk
40D "We __ to please"
43D Self-image
44D Western howling canine
46D Physician, for short
47D Parking lot spot
48D Capital of Egypt
49D __ days (long ago)
50D Competing teams
51D Spoken out loud
53D A Great Lake
54D Row of people waiting
55D Role for an actor
56D __ fish sandwich
57D Long, heroic tale
58D Smell bad

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