Newsday Crossword February 28, 2026 Answers

Across

Phrase on the Victoria Cross9 Small snare drum5 Grant command9 Just eat up5 Any Federal Reserve Note9 Precedes all others5 Material favored by Louis XIV4 Route 66 Road Trip Guide offerer3 Pool pocket complement6 Pool adjunct5 Lacking4 "He who thinks little, __ much": Leonardo4 Cutting board brand3 Peak of Tibet3 Start angling4 Liquid sold by the liter7 "Go," or "go" starter3 #2 for much management3 Oldest to win at Indy (at 47, 1987)7 Uncle's kin7 Action antonym3 Outlandishly3 Clerical contingent, e.g.7 Cream __4 Only three-time Time Man of the Yr.3 Half a retro reproach3 Piqued post4 Farm fodder4 Dry up5 Times up6 What all BMWs must carry3 Night follower4 Uncle's kin5 King David raiment9 Clueless contingent5 35-55 NFL total score, typically9 Ease antonym5 Reproduction redundancy9

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Wraps closed5 "Wilt Chamberneezy"5 Name on Premier Jour perfume5 Quash8 What makes men mean3 Contemporary of Ava, Rita and Bette4 Mass medium5 What Zurich needs in Nuremberg6 Manhattan must3 Words often woven4 Campaign manager6 Oldest annual Harvard-Yale competitions9 Calls for courses9 Thomas Edison and Woodrow Wilson, heading south to Delaware9 Skill that sounds scanty7 Are around5 Sanctioned5 They're not TV series7 Tropical tree with purple flowers9 Loud lament9 Honoree of a Postal Service 500th Anniversary stamp (1952)9 Rub down5 Occupy fully5 Third-discovered nutrient in its class8 Library lineup6 Wake up6 Car for courses5 Suspicious stranger, currently5 Emulate alligators5 Dr. Heimlich or Jekyll5 __ case4 Despot in throne rooms4 Disney studio name3 Dixitque Deus: "Fiat __": Genesis 1:33