LA Times Daily Crossword February 21, 2026 Answers

1. "Hold my beer" 10. __ forest 14. "It's not up to me" 15. Obsession 16. "Ask away!" 17. Quirkily creative 18. Leaves home? 19. Put on board 20. Board game 21. Pronoun option 22. Radiation that triggers vitamin D synthesis, for short 23. Lineup of runners? 25. Used a prayer rug 27. Supreme Theban deity 30. Mexico City's __ de la Reforma 33. "Truce?" 35. As soon as 36. Natl. Merit Scholarship qualifying exams 37. Dance with a kahiko style 38. Small beard 40. Amounts on some bottles 41. Sportscaster Dick with the catchphrase "Touch 'em all!" 42. Tilt 44. "Fare thee well" 46. Top suit 47. Toe bean spot 50. Shots after whiffs, say 52. Polish place 54. [Not again!] 55. "Wicked" star 56. "Count me in!" 58. Assumption 59. Suit perfectly 60. Forward thinker? 61. "Why not both"

1. Mover's concern 2. "Loch Lomond" preposition 3. Pianist McCoy who played with the John Coltrane Quartet 4. Home on an apartment building's roof, maybe 5. Carrier base 6. Not quite a teen 7. Lives it up 8. Clear for all to see, so to speak 9. Lid blemishes 10. Handy maneuver? 11. "Confidentially ... " 12. Lay out 13. Foots 15. Nice thing to call someone? 22. Shedding card game 24. Code components 25. Succumbed to gravity 26. Leaflet 28. Part of a play list? 29. "Woe is me!" 30. False front 31. Mystery author, briefly 32. Get tanked on a tropical vacation? 34. People with concerns about trolleys? 36. Resident of D.C.'s Daniel Webster Hall 39. "Orange Is the New Black" setting 40. Couple 43. Cesta-slung sphere 45. Bring together 47. Reverence 48. Concur 49. Carnival cries 50. Policies, for short 51. Put-in-Bay's lake 53. Femme friend 54. Roe source 57. 100 runs, for a cricketer