ASSET MANAGEMENT
Across
- Lumber along
- Total disarray
- Entrance piece
- Bestriding
- Elaborate account
- Equal standing
- Banquet figure
- Feeling sore
- Oxlike antelope
- Trial figure
- "Father of the American Cartoon"
- X-ray measures
- Puccini masterwork
- Pair in the five longest answers
- Virgil contemporary
- Frat letters
- Strong thirsts
- "Built for the Wild" cooler company
- Convoy participant
- Comic light
- Buffoon
- Located rearward
- Like Little Boy Blue
- Berry from Brazil
- Contents of some pockets
- Sailing through
- Trash collector
- Stranded spiral
- Trumpet-shaped flower
- Historic African queen
- Pond plant
- Part of Egypt's official name
- Short pants
- Ultimate enumeration intro
- Leave in stitches
- Lab culture substance
- Forester's first name
Down
- Dickensian shout
- Tone of old films
- Abundance
- Interesting but inconclusive
- Lilo & Stitch dance
- DJ's choices
- Dyeing craft
- Monument Valley topography
- Maker of Toothflix DVDs
- Smucker spread
- Came up short
- Grand Hyatt alternatives
- Nikon rival
- '90s fad disks
- Swell time
- Tricia alternative
- Sound from Sneezy
- Be a bother to
- Smoothly agreeable
- Be a bother to
- Keep going through
- Surname meaning "red"
- 50-state summer camp sponsor
- What powers small sharpeners
- Misdeed
- Bowl goals
- Amazons' father
- Come together
- Steady guy
- Circulation mainstay
- Show partner
- Wanders off
- Big talk
- Sloppy site
- Most populous NATO member
- Lee making many a scene
- Kimmel, in '23 and '24
- Issa who voiced Spider-Woman
- Special handling
- Ski lift with large cabins
- Eyesore
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, February 20, 2026 is titled “ASSET MANAGEMENT” and was constructed by Kevin Christian. The puzzle features 78 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.