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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Mon, Feb 16, 2026

ACROSS
1. Had on
5. Competent
9. The first octave above the treble staff
12. Locale of original sin
13. Observes
14. Writer Wiesel
15. Characteristic smell of wine
16. Extremities
17. Polynesian shrub of the pepper family
18. Three (prefix)
19. In the manner of
21. Prevent from occurring
22. Have the gumption
24. Animal enclosure
26. Followers of ems
27. Trials
28. Silent film actress Nazimova
29. Metal containers
30. Stories
32. Cooking vessels
36. Single time
37. White ___ sheet
38. American tennis player Robert
39. Adolescent
40. Came up
42. Portico
43. Obstruct or block passage
44. 61 cubic inches
46. Bear (Spanish)
49. Car or cant ending
50. An important port of Yemen
51. Nest on high
53. A saturated hydrocarbon
54. Mayday
57. Jazz singing style
58. Passed on
61. Title for a man of rank and authority
62. Singer James
63. Gumbo ingredient
64. _ the terrible
65. Compass dir.
66. Dry up
67. Trial

DOWN
1. Gone
2. Scent
3. Dwelling
4. Compass dir.
5. Toward the sea
6. Benjamin's nick name
7. Directed
8. Double-curved letter
9. Having winglike extensions
10. Make or become more lively
11. Separates forcefully
14. Supplement with great effort
19. Nonscientific branch of learning
20. For fear that
21. Heredity factor (abbr.)
23. NE Netherlands city
24. Entreaties
25. Raised railways
27. Prong on a fork
28. Columnist Joseph or Stewart
29. Small child
31. Composer Copland
32. Thick mixture
33. Clearly or manifestly demonstrative
34. Son of Odin
35. Ocean
40. Had dinner
41. Liveliness
43. Perceive with the eye
45. Binary compound
46. Fertile tracts in a desert
47. Religious groups
48. Speak pompously
52. Call ___ day
53. The sixth month of the Jewish calendar
55. Mouths or openings
56. Transmitted
58. Two (Sp.)
59. Mamie's mate
60. Period
61. Be seated