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Daily Crossword Puzzle #1 for Wed, Feb 18, 2026

ACROSS
1. Part of a journey
4. Calm and collected
8. Car dealer's back yard
11. Gumbo ingredient
13. Like ___ of sunshine
14. Hoop that covers a wheel
15. Tail end
16. Female horse
17. Having or resembling wings
18. Substance
21. Leaves out
22. Fly high
23. Bar bill
25. Perceive with the eye
26. Compass dir.
29. File 13
32. Lacking originality or spontaneity
34. Make imperfect
35. Santa ___, CA
38. "Corrida" creature
39. Turtle shell scale
41. Connecting point
43. Plus
44. Nonscientific branch of learning
45. Fertile tracts in a desert
46. Eaten
50. Followers of ems
51. White ___ sheet
54. Compass dir.
55. Sight organs
57. Bundle of cut stalks of grain
59. Nestling
63. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
64. Among
67. Length times width
68. Roberta Peters solo
69. Prong on a fork
70. State of inaction
71. Binary compound
72. Mild oath
73. A female animal or person

DOWN
1. Old wives' tales, e.g.
2. Supplements with great effort
3. Pate de foie ____
4. Device for capturing images
5. Mouth or opening
6. Rowing implement
7. Sodium hydroxide
8. Ms. Damita and namesakes
9. Declaim
10. Laconic
12. Ancient Greek god of war
14. Scottish cap
19. Brief written record
20. 4-wheeled motor vehicle
21. Chief or king in Benin or Nigeria
23. Not this but _
24. Measure of real estate
26. Eastern Standard Time (abbr.)
27. Portico
28. Merit
30. Particles of soot
31. Nanny
33. Farming town in central California
36. Olfactory organ
37. Arabian gulf
39. Sinks
40. Ship's personnel
42. Curvy letter
45. Lyric poems
47. Overdraft (abbr.)
48. Watched over
49. Sight organ
51. Slender Brazilian palm
52. Pottery fragment
53. Nest on high
56. Play the lead
58. American Automobile Association (abbr.)
60. Angers
61. Delicate
62. Yard entry
64. Had dinner
65. Russian fighter aircraft
66. _ tizzy (2 wds.)