Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Down Clues and Answers:

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Down: __ Secretary: Téa Leoni drama => MADAM
Down: Sound effect made with coconut shells => CLOP
Down: Toy with a tail => KITE
Down: Horace composition => EPODE
Down: Houdini singer Dua => LIPA
Down: 2017 Tony winner Come From __ => AWAY
Down: ... and anything else that might come up => ORWHATEVER
Down: Hon => BABE
Down: Second oboe, play the right notes this time!, e.g. => WINDDIRECTION
Down: Sneaky => SLY
Down: Blood => KIN
Down: Ashram figure => MONK
Down: Sing your solo correctly for once!, e.g. => VOICECOMMAND
Down: Gnossiennes composer => SATIE
Down: Take a chance => DARE
Down: Online marketing strategy, for short => SEO
Down: Count in the cereal aisle => CHOCULA
Down: Girl With a Pearl Earring painter => VERMEER
Down: __ Lingus => AER
Down: Invalidate => VOID
Down: Like a dive bar => SEEDY
Down: Perform the music as written! No sharps or flats!, e.g. => NATURALORDER
Down: Lavish love (on) => DOTE
Down: Graphic opening? => GEO
Down: Check out => VET
Down: You must!, or how a demanding conductor would interpret 20-, 26-, and 45-Across => ITSIMPERATIVE
Down: Coil in a garden => HOSE
Down: Worker who tracks transactions => BOOKKEEPER
Down: The America's Cup, for one => EWER
Down: Sea eagle => ERNE
Down: Signals from space, perhaps => OMENS
Down: Dumpster fire => MESS
Down: Mary __ Lincoln => TODD
Down: Hospital employee => NURSE
Down: Feline chorus => MEOWS
Down: National Scrabble Day month => APRIL
Down: Soft and fluffy => DOWNY
Down: Med. condition treated with Ritalin => ADHD
Down: Medieval fair quaff => MEAD
Down: Healing character class in D&D => CLERIC
Down: Pepped (up) => LIVENED
Down: Gp. founded in Baghdad => OPEC
Down: Hair line? => PART
Down: Explosive sound => KABOOM
Down: Lemme look! => IWANNASEE
Down: Open page on a web browser => TAB
Down: Cornea locale => EYE
Down: Polynesian carving => TIKI
Down: Plunge into liquid => IMMERSE
Down: Gave a leg up to? => KNEED
Down: The Old __: London venue => VIC
Down: Bodies of work => OEUVRES
Down: CLE player => CAV
Down: Mine deposit => ORE
Down: Flat-bottomed fishing boat => DORY
Down: Airport security check => SCAN
Down: Up, in a way => AHEAD
Down: Giant Galápagos natives => TORTOISES
Down: Hawaiian for long => LOA
Down: Feel bad => AIL
Down: Large body of eau => MER
Down: Backyard feature for a water-loving pup => DOGPOND
Down: Says out loud => UTTERS
Down: Stunk => REEKED
Down: How To __ Your Diary: interactive edition in a YA series => DORK
Down: Bygone Dodge two-seater => VIPER
Down: Levels => EVENS
Down: Hardly rambling => TERSE
Down: Skeptical scoff => IBET
Down: __ reflex: infant's instinctive protective response => MORO
Down: Millennia upon millennia => AEON
Down: Online discount marketplace => TEMU
Down: Haw counterpart => HEM
Down: Be outstanding => OWE

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This crossword has 0 across clues and 75 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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