L.A. Times Daily - Feb 18 2026

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