Newsday Crossword February 24, 2026 Answers

Across

Overly formal4 Fake-fur advocacy org.4 Shaker condiment4 Make simpler4 Enthusiastic4 Hawaiian welcome5 Read, as a bar code4 Clarinet mouthpiece4 Allowed by law5 Pekoe, for example3 White dessert in an edible holder11 Prom corsage6 Close by4 Creative thought4 Expert in the occult6 Cold __ (freezing)5 Section of a doorframe4 British title below duke4 Fudge-topped dessert15 Ballet skirt4 Metallic rocks4 8-key instrument5 Speak sharply to6 Reply to "Are not!"4 Finds a function for4 Up in the sky6 Dessert with a cut-in-half fruit11 School transcript no.3 Explosion5 Travel by boat4 Picket fence piece4 Moses' mountain5 Apex4 Arrange in some order4 Sticky cellophane strip4 Century fraction4 Brief memo4

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Green pasta sauce5 Indy 500 entrant5 Sir __ Newton5 Guys3 Event for marchers and bands6 __ so (nevertheless)4 Ad's cross-promotion.5 Confuse5 Worker's pay6 Baldwin or Guinness4 Company emblem4 Better late __ never4 Brewpub beverage3 YouTube viewing5 Sheep babies5 Chest spasm with a sharp sound6 Not quite shut4 Soon-to-be graduate6 "And here it is!"4 Teheran's nation4 Nile queen, for short4 Performs a role4 Avoid socially4 Slightest trace4 Ingested3 Flat-topped hill4 Much, informally5 Unexpected sports win5 Mom's sister6 Person sending a letter6 Long-answer test question5 Parking garage spot5 Traditional Arctic dome home5 In separate places5 Coffee + hot milk5 Toy gun pellets3 Returned to the ground4 Mom's mom4 Memo's "Immediately!"4 Soup's green __ bean4 Nine-digit ID3