| Clues | Answers |
| Result of pats on an infant's back | BURP |
| Genie's abode | LAMP |
| Ancient or from the past | OLD |
| Jacob's biblical twin | ESAU |
| Cookie for dunking | OREO |
| ___ polloi (commoners) | HOI |
| ___ Dead 2004 action horror film about human survivors in a zombie apocalypse directed by Zack Snyder (birthday today): 3 wds. | DAWNOFTHE |
| Olympic swimmer Thorpe or author Fleming | IAN |
| Purring pets | CATS |
| Steakhouse selection: Hyph. | TBONE |
| Luxury boat | YACHT |
| AFL-___ (federation of unions): Abbr. | CIO |
| Cute ___ button: 2 wds. | ASA |
| American satirical and dystopian superhero film directed by Zack Snyder which is based on a DC Comics limited series of the same name | WATCHMEN |
| Gold digger's office? | MINE |
| March follower for short | APR |
| Boxing ring boundary | ROPE |
| F of FBI | FEDERAL |
| Mater ___ (Mother of God) | DEI |
| Clock-setting standard: Abbr. | GMT |
| Man of ___ 2013 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder based on DC Comics' Superman | STEEL |
| Like a challenging slope | STEEP |
| Practice boxing | SPAR |
| Span of time | ERA |
| Unable to do something | INCAPABLE |
| Sue Grafton's ___ for Alibi: 2 wds. | AIS |
| Enjoy a book say | READ |
| Club member's payment | DUES |
| Decompose or go bad | ROT |
| Many millennia | EONS |
| Jazz singer ___ James of I'd Rather Go Blind | ETTA |
| Mattress site | BED |
| Springsteen's Born in the ___ | USA |
| Not cooked | RAW |
| Sucker ___ 2011 psychological fantasy film directed by Zack Snyder starring Emily Browning | PUNCH |
| Throw a ball high up say | LOFT |
| Liberal ___ (college program) | ARTS |
| Not impressed expression | MEH |
| Word before license or justice | POETIC |
| Home to Columbus | OHIO |
| Car or home buyer's need often | LOAN |
| Wine and ___ | DINE |
| Granola granule | OAT |
| Niels ___ Danish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 | BOHR |
| Thanksgiving veggie | YAM |
| '___ I care!'': 2 wds. | ASIF |
| Stick for a walk | CANE |
| ___-Alt-Del | CTRL |
| Feature of a wicked witch | WART |
| Mental health organization: Abbr. | APA |
| Airplane ___ (cellphone setting) | MODE |
| Fencing blade | EPEE |
| Actor ___ Patrick Harris of Gone Girl | NEIL |
| Competitive advantage | EDGE |
| 300: Rise of an ___ 2014 period action film co-produced by Zack Snyder starring Eva Green | EMPIRE |
| Maple tree fluid | SAP |
| Stock market transaction | TRADE |
| Blacken on a grill | CHAR |
| One more than a duo | TRIO |
| It's right on the map | EAST |
| Read a barcode say | SCAN |
| Computer mouse mats | PADS |
| The Matrix hero | NEO |
| Nothing ___ the truth | BUT |
| Never ___ Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro novel) | LET |
| Spanish that | ESA |
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Star Tribune Puzzle March 1 2020 Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| Above | ATOP |
| Adult male | MAN |
| Apple's center | CORE |
| Assess | RATE |
| Beg | BESEECH |
| Big Dipper component | STAR |
| Broad tie | ASCOT |
| Building extensions | ELLS |
| City light | NEON |
| Coldest | ICIEST |
| College cheer | RAH |
| Cook's oil | OLIVE |
| Corporate symbol | LOGO |
| Country | NATION |
| Cutting tools | SAWS |
| Defame | SLUR |
| Diners | EATERS |
| Does wrong | ERRS |
| Drench | SOAK |
| Edgy | TENSE |
| Egg layers | HENS |
| Elude | EVADE |
| Ended | OVER |
| Eternities | EONS |
| Expand | DILATE |
| Eye part | IRIS |
| False statement | LIE |
| Golf goal | PAR |
| Jazz's ____ Fitzgerald | ELLA |
| Klutz's cry | OOPS |
| Leaks slowly | SEEPS |
| Lift | HOIST |
| Like a bright night | MOONLIT |
| Like a fox | SLY |
| Lubricates | OILS |
| Map parts | INSETS |
| Mature | AGE |
| Monte ____ | CARLO |
| More painful | SORER |
| Moved upward | AROSE |
| Mr. Franklin | BEN |
| Mud brick | ADOBE |
| Netting | MESH |
| News bit | ITEM |
| Norse god | THOR |
| Oodles | LOTS |
| Outward behavior | DEMEANOR |
| Overhead railways | ELS |
| Person place or thing | NOUN |
| Pink | ROSY |
| Private teacher | TUTOR |
| Public | OVERT |
| Recluse | LONER |
| Recyclable item (2 wds.) | WASTEPAPER |
| Refined | GENTEEL |
| Regret | RUE |
| Reno's locale | NEVADA |
| Respect | HONOR |
| RI time zone | EST |
| Robin's home | NEST |
| Rock's ____ Clapton | ERIC |
| Round Table knight | LANCELOT |
| Seoul native | KOREAN |
| Set in from the margin | INDENT |
| Shredded | TORE |
| Singer ____ Seeger | PETE |
| Skillets | PANS |
| Snake's poison | VENOM |
| Struggle for breath | GASP |
| Sunburn soother | ALOE |
| Teetered | REELED |
| Towel inscription | HERS |
| Tuber | POTATO |
| Unable to read | ILLITERATE |
| Valise | CASE |
| Vegetarians' taboos | MEATS |
| Verbal | ORAL |
| Wanderer | NOMAD |
| Writing tablet | SLATE |
| Zodiac sign | LIBRA |
Star Tribune Crossword Puzzle February 29 2020 Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| Abound | TEEM |
| About | CONCERNING |
| Above | ATOP |
| Amusing story | ANECDOTE |
| Appends | ADDS |
| Beauty parlor | SALON |
| Bellow | ROAR |
| Brink | VERGE |
| Camping need | TENT |
| Canvas covers | TARPS |
| Caught | NETTED |
| Chest | TORSO |
| Compass reading (abbr.) | SSE |
| Creek | STREAM |
| Cutter | SLOOP |
| Decomposes | ROTS |
| Detroit product | AUTO |
| Ditty | TUNE |
| Dwell | LIVE |
| Eased up | ABATED |
| Fairy tale monster | OGRE |
| Fill glasses | POUR |
| Fool | IDIOT |
| Gambling cubes | DICE |
| Gasoline in England | PETROL |
| GI's hangout | USO |
| Greek Cupid | EROS |
| Gun lobby (abbr.) | NRA |
| Hair coloring | HENNA |
| Heat water | BOIL |
| Hero shop | DELI |
| Ike's inits. | DDE |
| Inactive | INERT |
| Invitation abbr. | RSVP |
| Involved with | INTO |
| Judicial order | DECREE |
| Jungle animals | APES |
| Lacking color | PALE |
| Legume | PEA |
| Locale | SITE |
| Long-legged bird | CRANE |
| Look closely | PEER |
| Luge | SLED |
| Mongrel | MUTT |
| More angry | SORER |
| Narrate | RELATE |
| No way! | NEVER |
| Opponent | ENEMY |
| Participant count | ATTENDANCE |
| Paving material | TAR |
| Pedro's one | UNO |
| Penny ____ | ANTE |
| Per person | APIECE |
| Pilaf ingredient | RICE |
| Position | STANCE |
| Prejudice | BIAS |
| Proverbs | ADAGES |
| Recipe units (abbr.) | TSPS |
| Rubbish | TRASH |
| Scent | ODOR |
| Serious injury | TRAUMA |
| Sheep's comment | BAA |
| Shred cheese | GRATE |
| Shucks! | DARN |
| Skill | ART |
| Soothes | EASES |
| Stop it! | DONT |
| Strong coffee | ESPRESSO |
| Summit | ACME |
| Temperament | NATURE |
| Toast spread | OLEO |
| Unexpected victory | UPSET |
| Unoccupied | IDLE |
| Votes in | ELECTS |
| Wake up | ROUSE |
| Was furious | RAGED |
| Was mistaken | ERRED |
| Whirlpool | EDDY |
The Sun Two Speed Mar 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| Ailment | MALADY |
| Apathy in bedroom: that's terrible | BOREDOM |
| Bedouin, e.g | NOMAD |
| Burn causing wow in school | SCORCH |
| Cadet Jan possibly very close | ADJACENT |
| Clever person hit on head | BRAIN |
| Clubs held by United __ but not now? | ONCE |
| Complaint of youth in spring month | MALADY |
| Confront | FACE |
| Davies trained as counsel | ADVISE |
| Discarded as useless | SCRAPPED |
| Elevation | ALTITUDE |
| Ennui | BOREDOM |
| Fast Spanish fleet runs out __ RN surrounds | RAMADAN |
| Female with fantastic features | FACE |
| Figure: appreciate it | DIGIT |
| Finger or toe | DIGIT |
| Generally believed | REPUTED |
| Had fight __ thrown out | SCRAPPED |
| Haze | MIST |
| Heard, not seen, in fog | MIST |
| Host ate bananas in uncomfortable position | hot seat |
| In the past | ONCE |
| Incandescent | red hot |
| Intellectual capacity | BRAIN |
| Journal thrown onto the fire? | LOG |
| King among plebs causing mêlée | SCRUM |
| Lean-to | SHED |
| Length of time around it varies | DURATION |
| Lightweight timber | BALSA |
| Moral tale | FABLE |
| Mouth part | LIP |
| Muslim holy month | RAMADAN |
| Neighbouring | ADJACENT |
| Not a wild wanderer | NOMAD |
| Offer suggestions | ADVISE |
| One million beats perhaps creating sudden urge | IMPULSE |
| Outermost | EXTREME |
| Radical Mike in old tree | EXTREME |
| Record | LOG |
| Rugby restart | SCRUM |
| Said to be placed in tall grass | REPUTED |
| Sear or singe | SCORCH |
| Shack in Slough | SHED |
| Slow court worker after rule broken | RELUCTANT |
| Socialist fiery and very popular | red hot |
| Some cannibals abroad in wood | BALSA |
| Some Lilliputian impudence | LIP |
| Story and great French article | FABLE |
| Stressful situation (informal) | hot seat |
| Surprise candidate | dark horse |
| Time span | DURATION |
| Unlikely winner's night-mare? | dark horse |
| Unwilling | RELUCTANT |
| Whim | IMPULSE |
| Your Highness? | ALTITUDE |
Premier Sunday King Feature Syndicate Mar 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Affirmative, captain!' | AYESIR |
| Buenos __' | DIAS |
| 'Faust' author | GOETHE |
| 'Nana' actress Anna | STEN |
| 'Pity!' | ALAS |
| 'Stretch' car | LIMO |
| 'The Thin Man' novelist Hammett | DASHIELL |
| 'Uh-uh' | NAH |
| 'Yikes!' | EGADS |
| __ Is Born' | ASTAR |
| __ recall ...' | ASI |
| 1985-91 'Saturday Night Live' cast member | DENNISMILLER |
| Actress Tatum | ONEAL |
| Ann of 'All That Jazz' | REINKING |
| Architect Saarinen | EERO |
| Arm-twist | COERCE |
| Ashen look | WANNESS |
| Avant-garde | EDGY |
| Beethoven symphony in E flat | EROICA |
| Biological bristle | SETA |
| Blowup stuff | TNT |
| Body of eau | MER |
| Brand of fleece-lined boots | UGG |
| Brian in the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame | ORSER |
| Broadcasting range | COVERAGEAREA |
| Car sticker abbr | MSRP |
| Casual top without a circular collar | VNECKTSHIRT |
| Child bearer | WOMAN |
| City across the Missouri River from Bismarck | MANDAN |
| Cold applications to sprains | ICEPACKS |
| Cologne's river | RHINE |
| Conga-dancing formation | LINE |
| Contrite people | PENITENTS |
| Croaking creature | FROG |
| Crossover SUV similar to the Chevy Equinox | GMCTERRAIN |
| Currency unit of Cambodia | RIEL |
| Deadlocked | ATASTALEMATE |
| Diagram showing data as nested rectangles | TREEMAP |
| Disease treatment using tiny-scale technology | NANOMEDICINE |
| Drop off | NOD |
| Drop off | NAP |
| Eats | INGESTS |
| Eggy quaff | NOG |
| Entered stealthily | CREPTINTO |
| Epic tale | SAGA |
| Evaluation with a money-back guarantee | NORISKTRIAL |
| Even way to finish | INATIE |
| Expert | ADROIT |
| Expert | ACE |
| Famed | OFRENOWN |
| Foot the bill | TREAT |
| Former first lady Carter | ROSALYNN |
| Fried egg preference | SUNNYSIDEUP |
| Give a ring | CALL |
| Gospel singer __ Patty | SANDI |
| Great anger | IRE |
| Green, yellow, orange or red vegetables | SWEETPEPPERS |
| Heady brew | ALE |
| Hertz rival | AVIS |
| Hit for the Kinks | LOLA |
| Incidentally | ASANASIDE |
| Intro drawing class | ARTI |
| Irises' places | EYES |
| Jungle vine | LIANA |
| Karloff of old films | BORIS |
| Keeps out of debt | STAYSAFLOAT |
| Left on a voyage | WENTTOSEA |
| Lena of 'Alias' | OLIN |
| Like hand-eye coordination | SENSORIMOTOR |
| Like the period between 1918 and 1939 | INTERWAR |
| Master musicians | VIRTUOSI |
| Md. neighbor | PENNA |
| Medium for Rembrandt | OILPAINT |
| Narrow shelf | LEDGE |
| Neighbor of a Saudi | OMANI |
| News tidbit | ITEM |
| Not sufficient | SCANT |
| Notches on surfaces | INDENTATIONS |
| One-named model who wrote 'True Beauty' | EMME |
| Org. for university cadets | ARMYROTC |
| Painter Mark | ROTHKO |
| Pare down | TRIM |
| Peddle from a stall | VEND |
| People online | USERS |
| Pithy | TERSE |
| Place | SET |
| Pontificate | ORATE |
| Pressure units | PASCALS |
| Procedures to detect a hazardous household gas | RADONTESTS |
| Put in a pile | STACK |
| Rare lunar phenomena | BLUEMOONS |
| Red wine | MERLOT |
| Restaurant seen in 'Manhattan' | ELAINES |
| Roberto of baseball | CLEMENTE |
| See 45-Down | TON |
| Shiny balloon polyester | MYLAR |
| Shop lure | SALE |
| Slowly, in scores | LENTO |
| Some bridge hands | EASTS |
| Song from 'Kiss Me, Kate' | SOINLOVE |
| Step on it | SPEED |
| Still too hot to eat, maybe | UNCOOLED |
| Streaming media format | REALAUDIO |
| Suffix with press | URE |
| Supplicate | PRAY |
| Tabulae __ (blank slates) | RASAE |
| Teasing a bit | NEEDLING |
| Tennis, chess or bridge | GAMEOFSKILL |
| Thyroid gland swellings | GOITERS |
| Timbuktu's nation | MALI |
| Time of noteworthy goings-on | EVENTFULDAY |
| Top 40 DJ Casey | KASEM |
| Transplants, in a way | REPOTS |
| Tropical devil ray | MANTA |
| Tuna snarer | SEINENET |
| TV host Ripa | KELLY |
| Twirl in the opposite direction | REVERSESPIN |
| U.S. border lake | ERIE |
| United States territory | AMERICANSOIL |
| Verbalizes | SAYS |
| Waitress on 'Alice' | FLO |
| Walk back and forth | PACE |
| Warhol of pop art | ANDY |
| With 78-Down, 2,000 pounds | ONE |
| Writer Kesey | KEN |
| __ May (Jed Clampett's daughter) | ELLY |
The Telegraph QUICK Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| Asleep (anag.) | PLEASE |
| Chaperone | ESCORT |
| Corn spike | EAR |
| Crack clues | SOLVE |
| Desert haven | OASIS |
| Drinking cup | GOBLET |
| Dwellings | HOMES |
| Fasten | TIE |
| Follow | TRACK |
| Freight | CARGO |
| French port | LEHAVRE |
| Frighten | SCARE |
| Hindu leader | MAHATMA |
| Ignore | SHUN |
| Immortal | ETERNAL |
| Italian city; Orleans (anag.) | SALERNO |
| Large dinosaur | BRONTOSAURUS |
| Male relation | UNCLE |
| Marquee | TENT |
| Multiplied by | TIMES |
| Occurrence | EVENT |
| Royal residence | PALACE |
| Stanza | VERSE |
| Tether | LEASH |
| Tympanic membrane | EARDRUM |
| Unambiguous | CLEAR |
| Weak point | ACHILLESHEEL |
| Young cats | KITTENS |
The Times Specialist Sunday March 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 203 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| "And ____ canker lives in sweetest bud. / All men make faults"(Shakespeare, Sonnet 35) | LOATHSOME |
| "We are in Afghanistan because this is ____ necessary war" (David Miliband, writing in 2009) | every bit a |
| "____ is a contradiction in terms" (Groucho Marx) | military intelligence |
| 1966 Elvis Presley single, released with Spinout on the other side | All That I Am |
| 2019 film, a live-action version of a 1941 Walt Disney film | DUMBO |
| A light form of lava often used as an abrasive | PUMICE |
| A unit of atmospheric pressure | BAR |
| Acted like Baron Munchausen | spun a yarn |
| Actor famous for playing Count Dracula | Christopher Lee |
| An alternative to "annoy" often seen in the past tense | DISGRUNTLE |
| An Appalachian yokel | HILLBILLY |
| An area of open grassland, also a measure of yarn | LEA |
| Bill ____'s Croydon North West by-election win in 1981 was the first parliamentary victory for the SDP-Liberal Alliance | PITT |
| Boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to win his first world heavyweight title | George Foreman |
| Bread from the northeast, often served with a savoury filling | stottie cake |
| British manufacturing company which abandoned its electric car project last October | DYSON |
| Coined during the First World War, a name for the condition commonly abbreviated as PTSD | shell shock |
| Collection of 39 essays by G K Chesterton, published in 1910 | Alarms and Discursions |
| Del Shannon's first single, a 1961 No 1 hit in the USA and UK | RUNAWAY |
| Estuary in the US states of Maryland and Virginia | Chesapeake Bay |
| Fasteners with hexagonal sockets | Allen screws |
| Final single released by the Beatles | The Long and Winding Road |
| Foul-smelling weasel relative, Mustela putorius | POLECAT |
| In the USA, "heinies" | BACKSIDES |
| In theology, relating to matters of death, judgement etc | ESCHATOLOGICAL |
| Irrational fear of open or public places | AGORAPHOBIA |
| Italian city reached at the end of the longest one-day race in professional cycling | san remo |
| Large marine creature sometimes called blackfish | pilot whale |
| Magazine such as Good Housekeeping or National Geographic | MONTHLY |
| Marine reptile, common during the Jurassic period | PLESIOSAUR |
| Mary ____ won Olympic pentathlon gold in 1972 | PETERS |
| Name for several rivers in southwest England, including two tributaries of the Taw and three of the Axe | YEO |
| Part of the eye surrounded by the iris | PUPIL |
| Person used to advantage by another | cat's-paw |
| Pseudonym of former Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Wharton | peter simple |
| Remove most of the moisture from something, especially clothing | damp-dry |
| Shipping forecast sea area including the Bristol Channel | LUNDY |
| Skill possessed by safe drivers and pedestrians | road sense |
| South African group who performed on the 1986 Paul Simon album Graceland | Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
| Tanker used to carry or supply fuel, water etc | BOWSER |
| The fruit of a rose | HIP |
| The longest-serving presenter of Tomorrow's World | Judith Hann |
| The second-largest moon of Saturn | RHEA |
| To disinter | EXHUME |
| To intend | plan on |
| Type of hat apparently named after a play by Victorien Sardou | FEDORA |
| Vegetable commonly used to fill burritos | pinto bean |
| ____ and Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting | Matt Damon |
The Times Concise Sunday March 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| The Times - Concise - Sunday Times Concise No 1667 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 3.26 light years | PARSEC |
| Accounts check | AUDIT |
| Desert inn | CARAVANSERAI |
| Digging | INTO |
| DNA data framework | genetic code |
| Doubtful lore | old wives' tale |
| Ear protection? | HUSK |
| Election activity | VOTING |
| Grammar pedant? | NAZI |
| Italian almond biscuits | AMARETTI |
| Jazz genre | BEBOP |
| Lighter fuel | BUTANE |
| Low guess | UNDERESTIMATE |
| Major blood vessel in the neck | jugular vein |
| Nonpareil | UNIQUE |
| Notify | INFORM |
| Offspring | YOUNG |
| Outpace or renovate | OVERHAUL |
| Pinnacle | APEX |
| Rash | ill-considered |
| S-shaped moulding | OGEE |
| Tech support caller? | USER |
| Whereness | UBIETY |
| White heron | EGRET |
The Guardian Speedy Mar 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| (Hunting) trip | SAFARI |
| American sweets | CANDY |
| Childish | PUERILE |
| Drawback | SHORTCOMING |
| Early form of computer | ABACUS |
| Eerie | MACABRE |
| Enlarge | BROADEN |
| Ennui | BOREDOM |
| Fortress | CITADEL |
| Funereal tune | DIRGE |
| Humiliate | DEMEAN |
| In the midst of | AMONG |
| Inviolable | SACRED |
| Magnificent | SUPERB |
| Modify | ADAPT |
| Noncomformist | HERETIC |
| Powerful businessman | TYCOON |
| Provide | CATER |
| Revel, be boisterous | ROISTER |
| Scandinavian | NORSE |
| Shoreline scavenger | BEACHCOMBER |
| Swallow up | ENGULF |
| Take an exam again | RESIT |
| Temporary prohibition | EMBARGO |
| Trinket | BAUBLE |
| Worries | FRETS |
USA Today Sunday Mar 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| '(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again' band | LTD |
| 'Doe, ___ . . .' ('Do-Re-Mi' lyric) | ADEER |
| 'Friday Night Lights' fullback Riggins | TIM |
| 'How cool!' | FAB, NEAT |
| 'Shame on you!' | TSK |
| 'War and ___' | PEACE |
| 'What a surprise to run into you here!' | OHHEY |
| 'You're right' | TRUE |
| '___ hardly wait!' | ICAN |
| 86,943 square miles, for Minnesota | AREA |
| Airport on the CTA's Blue Line | OHARE |
| Anagram of 'attic' | TACIT |
| Around, in date ranges | CIRCA |
| Baseball great Radcliffe | TED |
| Boasts loudly about | CROWSOVER |
| Break in hostilities | CEASEFIRE |
| Butter ___ (ice cream flavor) | PECAN |
| Call off | ABORT |
| Carbonated drink | SODA |
| Cartoonist Lubchansky | MATT |
| Contact lens location | EYE |
| Country with a large Hmong population | LAOS |
| Criticizes severely | RAILSAT |
| Diagram showing constellations | STARMAP |
| Do some sketching | DRAW |
| Fantasy creature | ELF |
| Fe, on the periodic table | IRON |
| From Zurich, say | SWISS |
| Frosts | ICES |
| German car with a four-ring logo | AUDI |
| Get ___ of | RID |
| Gets it wrong | ERRS |
| Gets low | DUCKSDOWN |
| Glasgow resident | SCOT |
| Gradually lost color | FADED |
| Hardwood used in furniture | TEAK |
| Headquartered | BASED |
| High room | ATTIC |
| Hindmost | REAR |
| Indigenous New Zealanders | MAORI |
| Jeff's partner in the comics | MUTT |
| Joke writer's specialty | WIT |
| Letter that precedes kappa | IOTA |
| Long poems about heroes | EPICS |
| Loses one's nerve | CHICKENSOUT |
| Luau garland | LEI |
| Mesozoic, e.g | ERA |
| Misery | WOE |
| Nightmares for tax dodgers | IRSAUDITS |
| Noisy bugs | CICADAS |
| Part of a checkout aisle count | ITEM |
| People's 2018 Sexiest Man Alive | IDRISELBA |
| Place for a fanny pack | WAIST |
| Place to apply blush | CHEEK |
| Post-op places, often | ICUS |
| Pothole site | ROAD |
| Prego competitor | RAGU |
| Queue to view | WATCHLIST |
| Range | SCOPE |
| Reindeer in 'Frozen' | SVEN |
| Religious offshoot | SECT |
| Rod and ___ | REEL |
| Royal proclamation | EDICT |
| Skirt past the knee | MIDI |
| Social class | CASTE |
| Spray in the produce section | MIST |
| Suit accessory | TIE |
| Sundance entry | FILM |
| Talk show host Williams | WENDY |
| Tattoo artist's supplies | INKS |
| They might be checked at the door | EGOS |
| Thinnest U.S. coin | DIME |
| Thrash around | FLAIL |
| Tons of | MANY |
| Vision | DREAM |
| Vulgar | LEWD |
| ___ up (absorb) | SOP |
New York Times Sunday March 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Fa-a-ancy!' | OOLALA |
| 'Hear ye! Hear ye!' announcers | CRIERS |
| 'I knew it was you!' | AHA |
| 'Life of Pi' author Martel | YANN |
| 'That's show ___!' | BIZ |
| 'The United States is not, and never will be, at war with ___': Obama | ISLAM |
| 'With any luck!' | HOPETOGOD |
| '___ changed' | IVE |
| '___ complicated' | ITS |
| *big kiss* | MWAH |
| 1910s flying star | WWIACE |
| Ability that's hard to explain | ESP |
| Adam's ___ | RIB |
| Air traffic watchdog, for short | FAA |
| Alpine lodging | SKICHALET |
| Annoyance for Santa | SOOT |
| Area with a half-dome | APSE |
| Big name in skin care | AVEENO |
| Bird Down Under | EMU |
| Book reviewers, for short | CPAS |
| Burdened | BESET |
| Cabernet county | NAPA |
| Carnival or circus, so to speak | BARRELOFFUN |
| Charlotte of 'The Facts of Life' | RAE |
| Chemist's study | ATOM |
| Chief legal officers: Abbr | AGS |
| China flaw | NICK |
| Chocolaty Post cereal | OREOOS |
| Christmas gift bearers | MAGI |
| Classic Mell Lazarus comic strip | MOMMA |
| Computer addresses, for short | IPS |
| Congeal | CLOT |
| Counterpart of the Roman Aurora | EOS |
| Cross shape | TAU |
| Curse remover | BLEEPCENSOR |
| DEFINITEL | YEAHWHYNOT |
| Delight in | ENJOY |
| Derive (from) | STEM |
| Diana Ross musical, with 'The' | WIZ |
| Digitally IDs by location | GEOTAGS |
| Drinking sounds | GLUGS |
| ENTURIES | LONGTIMENOSEE |
| ENVIRONMENAL | GREENTEAEXTRACT |
| Familiar inits. in math | QED |
| Features of some dresses and shoes | STRAPS |
| Film character introduced in 1977, who died in a 2015 sequel | HANSOLO |
| Fireside chat prez | FDR |
| First Nations people | INUIT |
| Fraternity and sorority members | GREEKS |
| French compliment | TRESBON |
| GAZACHO | SPLITPEASOUP |
| Get perfect | NAIL |
| Grendel, e.g | BEAST |
| Handsewn toy | RAGDOLL |
| Happening again? | RETRO |
| Have no success with | FAILAT |
| Help line? | SOS |
| Histrionic sort | EMOTER |
| Home of the Sun Devils, familiarly | ASU |
| House of Burgundy? | MAISON |
| Informal 'Ugh!' | NOLIKEY |
| INSTBANT | BEINTHEMOMENT |
| James Garfield's middle name | ABRAM |
| Jargon | ARGOT |
| John, to Lennon | LOO |
| Keyboard key | ALT |
| Land between Albania and Serbia | KOSOVO |
| Language from which 'reindeer' comes | NORSE |
| Lapis lazuli shade | AZURE |
| Leafy shelter | BOWER |
| Like some hair and embarrassed friends | TEASED |
| Like some web pages and memories | REFRESHED |
| Literary protagonist named after a king of Israel | AHAB |
| Little thing to pick | NIT |
| Magical healer | SHAMAN |
| Maintain | KEEP |
| Millennials | GENYERS |
| Muffin choice | BRAN |
| Mystical ball | ORB |
| Mythical archer | EROS |
| Nickname of the Miami Heat's all-time leader in points, games, assists and steals | DWADE |
| No go-getter | LAZYBUM |
| Noted Chinese-American fashion designer | ANNASUI |
| Obstacle-free courses | EASYAS |
| Old Spanish bread | PESETA |
| Org. for which Pelé once played | NASL |
| Org. to which Jordan once belonged | NBA |
| Original airer of 'The Office' | BBC |
| Overseas landmark located in Elizabeth Tower | BIGBEN |
| Part of binoculars | LENS |
| Payment to a freelancer for unpublished work | KILLFEE |
| Peachy-keen | NEAT |
| Play's final act? | BOW |
| Poet who wrote 'For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love' | DONNE |
| Put back to level one, say | RESET |
| Quick time out | NAP |
| Reply of faux innocence | WHOME |
| Rock standard? | CARAT |
| Romeo and Juliet, e.g | ROLES |
| Rowing machine, in fitness lingo | ERG |
| RUMYSELF | AREYOUWITHME |
| Sierra ___ | LEONE |
| SMEILL | GIVETHESTINKEYE |
| Soaring performer | SOPRANO |
| Some p.m. times | AFTS |
| Something many an A-list celebrity has | EGO |
| Something that's not easy to blow | SMOKERING |
| Speak with swagger | BOAST |
| Spiral | HELIX |
| Stifled | HELDIN |
| Store sign info | HOURS |
| Stretch of history | EON |
| Subj. of Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution | USSENATE |
| Subtracting | LESS |
| Suffix with Jumbo | TRON |
| Sweetums | HONEY |
| Take to the soapbox | ORATE |
| Target of an athlete's M.R.I | ACL |
| TECHNIQUEO | OHBYTHEWAY |
| Tiny amount | PINCH |
| U.S. ally in the Gulf War | OMAN |
| Uncompromising | ALLORNONE |
| Veil over a Muslim woman's face | NIQAB |
| Violinist Leopold | AUER |
| Waterside lodging with a portmanteau name | BOATEL |
| Will Ferrell and Tina Fey | SNLALUMNI |
| Woman in Progressive ads | FLO |
| Words of wonder | OHS |
| Young antagonist in Super Mario games | BOWSERJR |
| Young salamanders | EFTS |
| Yuletide | NOEL |
| ___ counter | DELI |
| ___ fixe | IDEE |
| ___ Major | URSA |
| ___ nova | BOSSA |
| ___ sauce (sushi bar condiment) | EEL |
| ___ smear | PAP |
| ___-doke | OKEY |
L.A. Times Daily Saturday Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Contact' author Sagan | CARL |
| 'I'll do it' | OKAY |
| 'Ran' director Kurosawa | AKIRA |
| 1953 Ladd classic | SHANE |
| Amazon, notably | ETAILER |
| Antagonism | RANCOR |
| Artist's pseudonym formed from the French pronunciation of his initials | ERTE |
| Atlantic food fish | SCROD |
| Baseball warm-up word | SHAG |
| Biological mapping subjects | GENOMES |
| Bit of progress | DENT |
| Blockage | OCCLUSION |
| Bouncer's job | CARDING |
| Brazilian music genre word meaning 'trend' | BOSSA |
| Brought into being | SIRED |
| Buttercup family member | ANEMONE |
| Cabbage site | PATCH |
| Casual wear | TEES |
| Certain youngster's nickname | SON |
| Comes to terms | MAKESADEAL |
| Dummy Mortimer | SNERD |
| Early Wikipedia competitor | ENCARTA |
| Ebb | WANE |
| Elder of an '80s-'90s country duo | NAOMIJUDD |
| Follower | ACOLYTE |
| Formal 'Who's there?' response | ITISI |
| Formed by solidified magma | IGNEOUS |
| Giovanni's god | DIO |
| Home improvement team | REMODELERS |
| Icon locale | DESKTOP |
| Is __: imminently will | SOONTO |
| Kitchen fixture | OVEN |
| Least civilized | WILDEST |
| LeBron, since Jul. 2018 | LALAKER |
| Letter-bottom abbr | ENCL |
| Like a good-sized farm | TENACRE |
| Like a pendulum's movement | SIDETOSIDE |
| Like court witnesses | SWORNIN |
| Like Hollywood films before censorship guidelines were introduced | PRECODE |
| Metaphorical casino loss | SHIRT |
| Mountain slope debris | SCREE |
| Nailing, in a way | ACING |
| One in a 1K, say | ENTRANT |
| One of two sts. admitted to the Union 11/2/1889 | NDAK |
| Pak of the LPGA | SERI |
| Parachutist using low-altitude starting points | BASEJUMPER |
| Perceived Cold War weapons disparity | MISSILEGAP |
| Plant support | TRELLIS |
| Power eponym | WATT |
| Propelled, as a raft | POLED |
| Property recipient, in law | ALIENEE |
| Quite a while | AGES |
| Remit, nowadays | PAYONLINE |
| Roman sun god | SOL |
| Rowena's lover | IVANHOE |
| Santa follower | ANA |
| Saw | SETEYESON |
| Secured | ICED |
| Singer for whom Bernie wrote lyrics | ELTON |
| Try it | HAVEAGO |
| Turndowns | NOES |
| Weather __ | VANE |
| Welder's output | ARCS |
| Wish were here | MISS |
| Words preceding an important reminder | PLEASENOTE |
| __-mo | SLO |
The Telegraph TOUGHIE Feb 28 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| & 15 Down March I deferred for 24 hours due to action of 7? | STDAVIDS |
| & 20 Across Group flipping shot out of their box | TWELVE |
| 4 x 4 might bring you this dirty old man? | ONEGROSS |
| Bath's objection overturned | TUB |
| Book sizes up snake wound | PSALMS |
| Easy for one in the library to stifle a 4 | MIDDAY |
| Fast mover 11 acquired his 6 Down | SCUDDER |
| Having gone over hill, ring for a reminder? | POSTIT |
| Instrument left in meadows likely to produce a shudder? | SPINETINGLING |
| Knowing Conservative, it's e.g. 'Land of Hope and Glory' which is uplifting | GNOSTIC |
| Mistakenly let in cracking rising double act did sketch | OUTLINED |
| No concessions from this virgin! | MAIDEN |
| No pursuing Chinese literary hero | HANNAY |
| Now out of silver, not nuts | ALLTHERE |
| On escalator under Birmingham Station, see date's determination? | NEWSTYLE |
| Once you start to yawn, ebbing body temperature contains it | THYSELF |
| One takes a turn for the better | ROULETTEWHEEL |
| Painful, is it, turning second of screws? | SADISTIC |
| Poet's work on the radio was outstanding | ODE |
| Rag and rope | GUY |
| Refrain from looking through Astronomer Royal's lab jottings? | RESEARCHNOTES |
| See 25 Across | DAY |
| See 4 Down | ANGRYMEN |
| Selection of wine: the Riesling's inferior | NETHER |
| Travelling crew-member thus could be authorised for reassembly | ROADIE |
| What's paid for meal, perhaps parts a trifle well done! | ATTABOY |
| What's sold in Long Room bar? Imitation Christmas jumpers! | LORDSALEAPING |
| Where you'll find menu in message he carries? | HOMEPAGE |
The Telegraph CRYPTIC Feb 28 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Waiter and cook' advert's about right | STEWARD |
| Answer included in new collection of corniest answers | REACTIONS |
| Article's enclosed for protective cover | APRON |
| Bitter about the north? You may be this! | SOUTHERN |
| Chant, ingesting acid and turning on | STARTING |
| Compile 'ten' roughly like this clu | INCOMPLETE |
| Country tune backing American gets into at first | AUSTRIA |
| Euphoric bore | TRANSPORTED |
| Forward on loan? | ADVANCED |
| Getting on in prison having got caught out | AGED |
| Gobbling venison up, guy that's heartless and ...? | GREEDY |
| Golf setter played when putting in America, most impressive | GREATEST |
| Ignore bush that's aggravated local residents | NEIGHBOURS |
| International tempo raised to support cold part of planet | ICECAP |
| Mad character in following chapter originally goes rabbiting | CHATTERING |
| Many desert, led by you in the past | THOUSANDS |
| Metal hip with variable carbon coating | ZINC |
| Oldster entering northbound metro in Essen | SENIOR |
| Polished section of gate-leg antique | ELEGANT |
| Power lies in sexiness or refined looks | EXPRESSIONS |
| Principal problem is to crush rise of alien resistance | HEADTEACHER |
| Remarkable Parisian on piano, soaring | SURPRISING |
| Small building suffers, having no entry places for pets | HUTCHES |
| Token clue | SIGN |
| Tracks made by pile-up with top fully down | HUNTS |
| Upper-class idlers, retiring, occasionally exercised | USED |
| We usually leave them pounds heavier and pounds lighter | Restaurants |
| Wrong goal overturned -- that's sport | TENNIS |
The Telegraph QUICK Feb 28 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 13 doctors? | VETS |
| Aside | APART |
| At any time | EVER |
| Baked; angry | HEATED |
| Cost | EXPENSE |
| Country property | ESTATE |
| Crayoned in | SHADED |
| Enduring | LASTING |
| Exploit | USE |
| Exploits | ADVENTURES |
| Finer; turps, e.g. | THINNER |
| Gawking | STARING |
| Having renown | NOTED |
| Imagine; integer | FIGURE |
| Lassie | GIRL |
| Lassie (anag.) | AISLES |
| Louvre and V&A? | MUSEUMS |
| Made easier | SIMPLIFIED |
| Microsoft's Bill? | GATES |
| More juvenile | YOUNGER |
| Opposed to | AGAINST |
| Planet | EARTH |
| Potty or barmy | SILLY |
| Prone; fibbing | LYING |
| Single item | UNIT |
| Squeeze painfully | PINCH |
| Sweetener | SUGAR |
| Take for granted | ASSUME |
| Tiger, for instance | CAT |
| Walked in step | MARCHED |
| Whom or which | THAT |
| Zone | AREA |
The Sun Two Speed Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 50=10? Pay attention! | LISTEN |
| Absolutely | INDEED |
| Air movement in Stansted dynamic | EDDY |
| Amusing account | ANECDOTE |
| Appointment | DATE |
| Beluga, shortly cooked, causing waistline problem? | BULGE |
| Big blow for English MP in quiz | TEMPEST |
| Bird call | TWEET |
| Called in November to stop torment | RANG |
| Caped Crusader | BATMAN |
| Card game using a pegboard | CRIBBAGE |
| Cheat and secure point in board game | CRIBBAGE |
| Childish supporter wearing fashionable piece | INFANTILE |
| Chum (informal) | PAL |
| Civic dignitary | ALDERMAN |
| Club servant becomes superhero | BATMAN |
| Conjecture | GUESS |
| Cyclone | TEMPEST |
| Denied perhaps? Certainly! | INDEED |
| Dumb as leading character in Psycho? | SILENT |
| Ego, dire, corrected in northerner | GEORDIE |
| Electronic post | |
| Fool following river bird | FALCON |
| Friend from Spalding | PAL |
| Garment pouch | |
| Good: Sue's revised estimate | GUESS |
| Hearken | LISTEN |
| Hit hard for boxing prize | BELT |
| Inferred | DEDUCED |
| Intimate piano as Loren dances | PERSONAL |
| Is able to | CAN |
| Island chap, brown, holding hat | MANHATTAN |
| Long-winged raptor | FALCON |
| Lover's meeting in tree | DATE |
| Message online and call from branch | TWEET |
| Messages sent round in Parliament | |
| New York region | MANHATTAN |
| Pealed | RANG |
| Private | PERSONAL |
| Rounded protrusion | BULGE |
| Senior citizen alarmed shaky knight | ALDERMAN |
| Some Dominicans in prison | CAN |
| Soundless | SILENT |
| Steal money bag | |
| Suppose I'm a spirit devotee ultimately | IMAGINE |
| Tynesider (informal) | GEORDIE |
| Very silly | INFANTILE |
| Visualise | IMAGINE |
| Waist band | BELT |
| Whirling current | EDDY |
| Worked out as French duke in action | DEDUCED |
| Worried about party after NEC story | ANECDOTE |
The Guardian Quick Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| Aristocratic descent | BLUEBLOOD |
| Board ship | EMBARK |
| Christmas | NOEL |
| Commanded | BIDDEN |
| Dissimilar | UNLIKE |
| Explosion | BANG |
| Full stiff petticoat worn under a skirt | CRINOLINE |
| Genuine and legitimate (informal) | KOSHER |
| Highly detailed | ELABORATE |
| Inactive __ quit scene (anag) | QUIESCENT |
| Keep down costs | ECONOMISE |
| Legal | LAWFUL |
| Lose one's cool | PANIC |
| Ornamental tuft of threads | TASSEL |
| Precipitous | STEEP |
| Prison accommodation | CELL |
| Reasonable judgement | LOGIC |
| Repast | MEAL |
| Rowing team | CREW |
| Shaped as with an axe | HEWN |
| Shortage | LACK |
| Small restaurant | BISTRO |
| Sound of the bagpipes | SKIRL |
| Stand-offish | REMOTE |
| Take a silly risk | TEMPTFATE |
| Trembled | SHUDDERED |
| Walloped | CLOBBERED |
| Where the altar is found in a church | APSE |
The Guardian Weekend Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| Algerian city and province, known for its 4th century basilica | TEBESSA |
| Animal droppings - or a kind of jazz? | SCAT |
| Baroness Sayeeda __, campaigner against Islamophobia | WARSI |
| Baroque fountain in Rome | TREVI |
| British chemicals company sold to AkzoNobel in 2008 | ICI |
| Country bordered by Vietnam and Myanmar | LAOS |
| Currer __, pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë | BELL |
| Feminist magazine founded in 1972 which ceased publishing in 1993 | SPARERIB |
| Form of communication superseded by the fax machine | TELEX |
| London listings magazine founded in 1981 which ceased publication in 1993 | CITYLIMITS |
| Magazine founded 1841 which finally closed in 2002 | PUNCH |
| Magazine launched in 1988 which ceased publication after being sued by ITN in 2000 | LIVINGMARXISM |
| Magazine of social inquiry, founded in 1962 | NEWSOCIETY |
| Minority ethnic group in Rwanda | TUTSI |
| Mr __, character played by Rowan Atkinson | BEAN |
| Paolo __, winner of the Golden Boot in the 1982 FIFA World Cup | ROSSI |
| The capital of Latvia | RIGA |
| The eldest daughter of Hardy's John and Joan Durbeyfield? | TESS |
| The leading magazine for teenage girls in the late 1980s | JUSTSEVENTEEN |
| The __, BBC magazine which ceased publication in 1991 | LISTENER |
| When Robert Browning wished to be in England? | INAPRIL |
| __ Valley, organic dairy business based in Somerset | YEO |
Universal Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| "Need to hear more?" | SHALLIGOON |
| "Now it's clear" | ISEE |
| "Topaz" author Leon | URIS |
| Airline founded in the same year as the nation of Israel | ELAL |
| Argentine grassland | PAMPA |
| Attention-getting | BIGANDBOLD |
| Bloom's beginning | BUD |
| Bob and bun | DOS |
| Boorish sort | CHURL |
| Bugling animal | ELK |
| Catch wind of | HEAR |
| Clarinetist Artie | SHAW |
| Common laundromat loss | SOCK |
| CPR pros | EMTS |
| Cut, as expenses | PARE |
| Die, geometrically | CUBE |
| Drops beneath the horizon | SETS |
| Event with a finish line | RACE |
| Eye wolfishly | OGLE |
| Gyro bread | PITA |
| Have regrets about | RUE |
| Highway marker number | MILE |
| Honor with insults | ROAST |
| Hook's sidekick | SMEE |
| Ill will | SPITE |
| In bundles, as cotton | BALED |
| Job detail, briefly | SPEC |
| Lawyers' org | ABA |
| Left wide-eyed | AWED |
| Lena of "Chocolat" | OLIN |
| Letters before an alias | AKA |
| Like die-hard fans | AVID |
| List shortener, for short | ETAL |
| Longish skirt | MIDI |
| Meat in an Egg McMuffin | CANADIANBACON |
| Meat served at a "joint" | BARBECUEDRIBS |
| Meat sold in cans | DEVILEDHAM |
| Monetary unit of Turkey | LIRA |
| Move, in Realtor lingo | RELO |
| Natural balm | ALOE |
| Often-pierced spots | LOBES |
| Only its Touch model is currently sold | IPOD |
| Out-of-focus photo, e.g | BLUR |
| Page with essays | OPED |
| Pageant wear, at times | BIKINI |
| Painter's application | COAT |
| Pharmaceuticals giant ___ Lilly | ELI |
| Pizzeria chain | SBARRO |
| Plumped-up fowl | CAPON |
| Potluck get-togethers | SUPPERS |
| Public stature | REPUTE |
| Rio Grande city | LAREDO |
| Ruler ousted in 1979 | SHAH |
| Satisfied the munchies | ATE |
| See 34-Across | OUT |
| Shepherd's pie legumes | PEAS |
| Signs of rotting | ODORS |
| Slow-cooked sandwich meat | PULLEDPORK |
| Smelter waste | DROSS |
| Square-dance moves | DOSIDOS |
| Suffix with "star" or "czar" | DOM |
| T.S. who wrote about cats | ELIOT |
| Therapeutic bath spot | SPA |
| Toss in | ADD |
| Totally blah | DRAB |
| Tries the patience of | IRKS |
| Trouble-free state | EASE |
| Valeted vehicle | CAR |
| Vein yields | ORES |
| Vintage 8-Down inits | REO |
| Visitor to an old prof | ALUM |
| Vitalizes, with "up" | PEPS |
| Volcanic residue | ASHES |
| Weasel's stinky cousin | POLECAT |
| With 39-Across, eat lots of 16-, 26-, 45- and 59-Across? | PIG |
| Without a stitch on | BARE |
| Word after "disco" or "steroid" | ERA |
| ___ Sea (shrunken body of water) | ARAL |
Wall Street Journal Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| "Chicago Hope" Emmy winner | LAHTI |
| "Science Guy" Bill | NYE |
| "Shoot!" | DARNIT |
| "The Favourite" Oscar winner Colman | OLIVIA |
| "___ & Oh's" (Elle King hit) | EXS |
| Act the couch potato | VEGOUT |
| Admittedly | TOBESURE |
| Annex, briefly | ADDN |
| Apiece | EACH |
| Argue about | QUARRELOVER |
| Atlas alternative | GOOGLEEARTH |
| Belt at a tea ceremony | OBI |
| British-made SUV | RANGEROVER |
| Browser button | RELOAD |
| Bury | INTER |
| Bygone Rolling Stone competitor | CREEM |
| Canon competitor | LEICA |
| Ceviche ingredient | LIME |
| Chicago suburb | CICERO |
| Choice word | EENIE |
| City served by Kansai International Airport | OSAKA |
| Co-star of Moore and Knight | ASNER |
| Collision sound | BAM |
| Communicated with one's thumbs | TEXTED |
| Comparatively cockamamie | INANER |
| Conclusion for Descartes | IAM |
| Creator of Boo and Atticus | HARPER |
| Cuts out | QUITS |
| Desired outcome | AIM |
| Dickens boy | TINYTIM |
| Doings | EVENTS |
| Entice | TEMPT |
| Everyone | ALL |
| Exult in victory | GLOAT |
| Fictional accounts | LIES |
| First woman nominated for a directing Oscar | LINAWERTMULLER |
| Flower holder | STALK |
| Food for sea urchins | KELP |
| Formal permission | LEAVE |
| Good golf game | EVENPAR |
| Good, in Granada | BIEN |
| Grave | SOLEMN |
| Hall's bandmate | OATES |
| Harmful helper | ENABLER |
| Icicle's spot | EAVE |
| Indulgent | LAX |
| Java container? | ASIA |
| Jazz club offerings | SETS |
| John James Audubon, for one | WILDLIFEARTIST |
| Kitchen staple | SALT |
| Laudatory words | PRAISE |
| Letter-shaped fasteners | TNUTS |
| Level | ECHELON |
| Like many a Disney film | RATEDG |
| Lilliputian | WEE |
| Listening devices | EARS |
| Long of "NCIS: Los Angeles" | NIA |
| Longoria of "Desperate Housewives" | EVA |
| Magic medicine | ELIXIR |
| Main ingredient of 82-Across's products | OATS |
| Major meal | FEAST |
| Makes a bundle | BALES |
| Makes smooth | SANDS |
| Manipulative bunch | USERS |
| Marketing tool | POLL |
| Matter for a miller | GRIST |
| Miembros de la familia | TIAS |
| Mineo of movies | SAL |
| Moo ___ pork | SHU |
| Mountain line | RIDGE |
| Move like a moth | FLIT |
| Old riddle question | WHATAMI |
| One in a rush? | GOLDMINER |
| Optimal | BEST |
| Orange, e.g | CITRUSTREE |
| Participants in some flying formations | GEESE |
| Pedigree figures | SIRES |
| Plugging away | ATIT |
| Poi root | TARO |
| Polished off | EATEN |
| Prepare for print | EDIT |
| Razor brand | ATRA |
| Record store section | CLASSICALMUSIC |
| Refrain from | AVOID |
| Regular deterioration | WEAR |
| Repressed feelings, and a hint to the circled letters | HIDDENEMOTIONS |
| Retreat | LAIR |
| Rich deposits | LODES |
| Round figures | OVALS |
| Saint Patrick's Day celebrant, often | IRISHAMERICAN |
| Saw things | TEETH |
| Scanner target | UPCCODE |
| Scoreboard letters | RHE |
| Sell off | DIVEST |
| Sense of excitement | SPARK |
| Separation | DISUNION |
| She has a wool coat | EWE |
| Singers James and Jones | ETTAS |
| Site of many strikes | ALLEY |
| Skin care brand | AVEENO |
| Skirt edge | HEM |
| Smashed | LIT |
| So-so grades | CEES |
| Some aliens | EMIGRES |
| Some are lazy | SUSANS |
| Spot checker? | VET |
| Spot to jot | PAD |
| Squeezes (out) | EKES |
| Stainless | CHASTE |
| Sticks | GLUES |
| Takes off | GOES |
| Targets for masseuses | ACHES |
| Tax form ID | SSN |
| Tel ___ | AVIV |
| Terrific | GREAT |
| They're seen in showers | METEORS |
| Tight player, in poker | NIT |
| Titania and Oberon circle it | URANUS |
| Tom Clancy hero | RYAN |
| Took to the sky | SOARED |
| Trail | LAG |
| Trans-Siberian Railway city | OMSK |
| Tribal tales | LORE |
| Trifling amount | SOU |
| Twisty shape | ESS |
| Unfavorably | ILL |
| Unhurried | EASY |
| Unsophisticated humor | CORN |
| Unstable particle | PION |
| Venues | LOCI |
| Vino region | ASTI |
| Washing machine cycle | RINSE |
| William Tell's canton | URI |
| Withdraw, judicially | RECUSE |
| Woodstock quartet, for short | CSNY |
| WWW addresses | URLS |
| Yak's home | TIBET |
| Young'uns | TOTS |
| Yule beverages | NOGS |
| ___ Loops (Toucan Sam's brand) | FROOT |
New York Times Saturday February 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Critique of Pure Reason' philosopher | KANT |
| 'Wowzers!' | GEE |
| '___ Death' (2006-10 Fox sitcom) | TIL |
| A boom might come out of it | MAST |
| Accompaniment at an Indian restaurant | RAGA |
| Approximate proportion of the world's population that lives on an island | ONENINTH |
| Attend by oneself | GOSTAG |
| Barbecue variety featuring vinegar-based sauces | CAROLINA |
| Barber | STYLE |
| Base for many a chef's rose garnish | RADISH |
| Bass-heavy hybrid music genre | FUNKRAP |
| Big name in Irish whiskey | JAMESON |
| Big name in Old West justice | EARP |
| Bond backed by the govt | TNOTE |
| Bugs used to be seen on it | CEL |
| Bygone parts of newspapers with local gossip | SOCIETYPAGES |
| Casual turndown | NAH |
| Chef in a grocery store | BOYARDEE |
| Core part, informally | ABS |
| Cranial : skull :: brachial : ___ | ARM |
| Down state? | WOE |
| Early arrival | PREEMIE |
| Easter activities | EGGROLLS |
| Feeling akin to the German 'Weltschmerz' | ENNUI |
| Follower of Marx? | ISM |
| Former home of the Seattle SuperSonics | KEYARENA |
| Frank type | BEEFHOTDOG |
| Game | PREY |
| Grammy-nominated singer who made her on-screen film debut in 'Moonlight' | JANELLEMONAE |
| Information on a game box | AGERANGE |
| It may rise in anger | TONE |
| It's on the St. Lawrence: Abbr | ONT |
| Job requirement, often | COLLEGEDEGREE |
| Leave agape | STUN |
| List of frozen assets? | DESSERTMENU |
| Lively wit | ESPRIT |
| Long | YEN |
| Long, thick and unkempt | SHAGGY |
| Main issues? | GASLEAKS |
| Major-league All-Star turned TV analyst, informally | AROD |
| Market built around short-term engagements | GIGECONOMY |
| Member of the Addams Family | ITT |
| Miracle-___ | GRO |
| Nursery contents | BABES |
| One raising an issue | PARENT |
| Part of a pack, in slang | CIG |
| Paul of the old 'Hollywood Squares' | LYNDE |
| Pulled a fast one on | GOT |
| Rebus symbol for a pronoun | EYE |
| Reduce in intensity | BATE |
| Self-titled 1961 debut album | ARETHA |
| Siberian stretches | STEPPES |
| Site in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco, for short | USMINT |
| Skort circuit? | LPGATOUR |
| Small annoyance | IMP |
| Some 'Grey's Anatomy' settings, for short | ICUS |
| Something Cap'n Crunch has | ELISION |
| Spheres | AREAS |
| Spots | ADS |
| Symbol for the golden ratio | PHI |
| Tech assistant | SIRI |
| They have chairs at the circus | TAMERS |
| Title pig of children's literature | OLIVIA |
| Title whose name comes from the Greek for 'alone' | MONK |
| Titular comic strip character from the A.D. 800s | HAGAR |
| Tree huggers Down Under | KOALAS |
| Tributary of the Hudson | CROTONRIVER |
| Trounce | WORST |
| Two before 34-Down | TAU |
| ___ tax | SIN |
The Times Concise February 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 8214 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| (He/she/it) existed | WAS |
| Aggressive dog | CUR |
| Air force unit | SQUADRON |
| Apologetic exclamation | OOPS |
| Cereal seed | GRAIN |
| Designed to attack planes | anti-aircraft |
| East Anglian county | SUFFOLK |
| Garment edge | HEM |
| Give official recognition to | ACCREDIT |
| Lacking stability | UNSETTLED |
| Like a British wartime leader | CHURCHILLIAN |
| Local area network (abbreviation) | LAN |
| Pre-conquest Andean | INCA |
| Refuses to move | STICKS |
| Second World War battle island | Iwo Jima |
| Show (a film) again | RERUN |
| Source of intoxication | ALCOHOL |
| Strike with the fist | PUNCH |
| Superficial | OUTWARD |
| Surpass (an achievement) | TRANSCEND |
| Unbeliever; sceptic | AGNOSTIC |
| Using cables; tense, edgy | WIRED |
| Wax light | CANDLE |
| Wet and miry situations | MUDBATHS |
| The Times - Concise - Sunday Times Concise No 1667 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 3.26 light years | PARSEC |
| Accounts check | AUDIT |
| Desert inn | CARAVANSERAI |
| Digging | INTO |
| DNA data framework | genetic code |
| Doubtful lore | old wives' tale |
| Ear protection? | HUSK |
| Election activity | VOTING |
| Grammar pedant? | NAZI |
| Italian almond biscuits | AMARETTI |
| Jazz genre | BEBOP |
| Lighter fuel | BUTANE |
| Low guess | UNDERESTIMATE |
| Major blood vessel in the neck | jugular vein |
| Nonpareil | UNIQUE |
| Notify | INFORM |
| Offspring | YOUNG |
| Outpace or renovate | OVERHAUL |
| Pinnacle | APEX |
| Rash | ill-considered |
| S-shaped moulding | OGEE |
| Tech support caller? | USER |
| Whereness | UBIETY |
| White heron | EGRET |
Irish Times (Simplex) Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| Amount at which a thing is sold | PRICE |
| Be present at | ATTEND |
| Charge with a crime | INDICT |
| Comfort, rest | EASE |
| Consuming food | EATING |
| Desolate, fallow | BARREN |
| Directed an orchestra | CONDUCTED |
| Forms a layer over | COVERS |
| Get together socially or for business | MEET |
| Hello to Shakespeare's Moor | OTHELLO |
| Hydrogen and carbon monoxide, say | GASES |
| Inactive, motionless | STATIC |
| It's past eight, time for strange pasta | SPAGHETTI |
| Mend | REPAIR |
| Moved to music | DANCED |
| Not mixed or adulterated | PURE |
| On it, goods may be returned if not satisfactory | APPROVAL |
| Own, have | POSSESS |
| Palpitation, oscillation | VIBRATION |
| Periodic ebbs and flows | TIDES |
| Position or situation | LOCATION |
| Reminder of a past event | MEMENTO |
| Remuneration | INCOME |
| Safeguarded from danger | PROTECTED |
| Series of military operations | CAMPAIGN |
| Stringed instrument | GUITAR |
| Suitable or appropriate | PROPER |
| Sway back and forth on the edge | TEETER |
| The Aloha State | HAWAII |
| The inferior end of a neck of mutton | SCRAG |
| Transient cessation of breathing | APNOEA |
| Use it to move from lower-case to upper-case letters | SHIFTKEY |
| Victor | WINNER |
| Way or track | PATH |
| Wearying, exhausting | TIRING |
| When one celestial body obscures another | ECLIPSE |
Irish Times (Crosaire) Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| A French family from 6th Arrondissement can be ruthless | UNKIND |
| A little bit of what's served up in Palermo takeaway | ATOM |
| Allowed to cool, in a culinary sense, in desert heat? | RESTED |
| American loses the head with fine powder and draught served up in Central Europe | AUSTRIA |
| Amidst the amoeba living on Indonesian island | BALI |
| Article about fiction produced by foreigner | ALIEN |
| Ask for an opinion from head barman backing what horse will do on the racecourse | GALLOP |
| Checking out exam | LEAVING |
| Closest to eastern dish | NEAREST |
| Consumed medication, for instance, to get all right | TOOK |
| Disturb hornets by a bridge? | SHORTEN |
| Do nothing with smelt from mild steel | IDLE |
| Dressing for trifle from field trip | DIP |
| End product is no longer stylish for company and yours truly | OUTCOME |
| Endorse first Latin novel about the start of the Interregnum | INITIAL |
| Formal admissions of swearing in school | INAUGURATIONS |
| Half the food in America produced by crafty types, the subject of conspiracy theorists | UFOS |
| It's easy to take in Nero, the leader consumed by Fire | SNACK |
| It's in poor taste for Vogue to take it without permission | INAPPROPRIATE |
| Lament from half of One Direction on record | WEEP |
| Leaves lover from El Salvador | SALAD |
| Little wonder one has a childish gift after new delivery | INFANTPRODIGY |
| Model on the radio welcoming line in The Palace | CASTLE |
| Nan leaves in advance of guidance | ADVICE |
| One from the Panto has large country house that's very trendy | VILLAIN |
| Outfits with great listeners | GEARS |
| Override a decision in part that's not working | DEAD |
| Popular type from a forecourt showing off a Citroen from lock-up | INCARCERATION |
| Port drink knocked back with tea - hazard a guess what it is? | PREDICT |
| Produces, scrubs, crops as expected | DUE |
| Put a stop to presidents ignoring priests | END |
| Rested awkwardly in ditch | DESERT |
| Rising war of words in Kent confusing system | NETWORK |
| Sat in on exchange one diplomatically joining the institution that is United? | NATIONS |
| Some plans of action for those looking for seats in The House | SOFA |
| Strip poker removes kits - how is that ladylike? | PROPER |
| Suitcase for characters up for taking a break | BAG |
| Turns up retweet about drugs bill for smack | BATTER |
Eugene Sheffer King Feature Syndicate Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Evil Woman' gp | ELO |
| 'Gosh!' | GEE |
| Pleasantville' star William H. __ | MACY |
| 'Pygmalion' writer | SHAW |
| 'Way cool!' | RAD |
| Annapolis sch | USNA |
| At work | ONDUTY |
| Austen novel | EMMA |
| Author Bellow | SAUL |
| Author Quindlen | ANNA |
| Big-screen format | IMAX |
| Borodin's 'Prince __' | IGOR |
| Bud holder | VASE |
| Building beam | GIRDER |
| Cookbook author Rombauer | IRMA |
| Cowboy's sweetie | GAL |
| Dairy case buy | YOGURT |
| Docs' org | AMA |
| Downwind | ALEE |
| Dr. of hip-hop | DRE |
| Ecol. watchdog | EPA |
| Favorite | PET |
| Fillmore, for one | WHIG |
| Garden tool | HOE |
| Gear tooth | COG |
| Gilbert, creator of CBS's 'The Talk' | SARA |
| Golden Fleece ship | ARGO |
| Headache aid | ICEBAG |
| Hide in the bushes | LURK |
| Honky- __ | TONK |
| Hot | SEXY |
| Inferior | SUBPAR |
| Insult, slangily | DIS |
| Japanese noodle | UDON |
| Jousting weapon | LANCE |
| Ky. neighbor | IND |
| Magic potion | ELIXIR |
| Major artery | AORTA |
| Men-only | STAG |
| Michelangelo masterpiece | PIETA |
| Mineral suffix | ITE |
| Nozzle site | HOSE |
| Pakistan's language | URDU |
| Paris summer | ETE |
| PC linking system | LAN |
| Pep | VIM |
| Pleads | BEGS |
| Pouch | SAC |
| Reply (Abbr.) | ANS |
| Sense | FEEL |
| Special talent | STRONGSUIT |
| Spouse | WIFE |
| Steinway product | PIANO |
| Suitable | APT |
| Ticket half | STUB |
| Tiny bit | IOTA |
| Toucan feature | BEAK |
| Unconvincing alibi | WEAKEXCUSE |
| Unkempt | RAGTAG |
| Vocal quality | TONE |
| Wanting | INNEED |
| __ Bator | ULAN |
| __ luck (accidental success) | DUMB |
| __ Paulo | SAO |
Thomas Joseph King Feature Syndicate Feb 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Are you glad I'm back?' | MISSME |
| 'Mephisto Waltz' composer | LISZT |
| Baseball's Fielder | CECIL |
| Bender | SPREE |
| Bitter component of tea | TANNIN |
| Boo-boo | OUCHIE |
| Casual tops | TEES |
| Catching need | MITT |
| Cherishes | LOVES |
| Chimney parts | FLUES |
| Choir voice | ALTO |
| Closing number | FINALE |
| Danson of 'The Good Place' | TED |
| Different | ELSE |
| Diminished | EBBED |
| Earthy colour | OCHRE |
| Eat in style | DINE |
| Egyptian landmark | SPHINX |
| Enterprise crewman | SULU |
| Flung | TOSSED |
| Foot parts | INCHES |
| Goes for | COSTS |
| Guitar accessory | PICK |
| Hardly wordy | TERSE |
| Hides from view | OCCULTS |
| Indian coin | RUPEE |
| Individually | APIECE |
| Little dears | ANGELS |
| Pittsburgh pro | STEELER |
| Practical joker's gadget | JOYBUZZER |
| Raise | ELEVATE |
| Reach across | SPAN |
| Relay need | BATON |
| Scandal subject | SEX |
| Search out | SEEK |
| Second letter | BETA |
| Shot make-up | WHISKEY |
| Sinuous fish | EELS |
| Soft shoe, for short | MOC |
| Team | SQUAD |
| Throngs | CROWDS |
| Tony winner Worth | IRENE |
| Top-rated | BEST |
| Wails | KEENS |
| Warming in the microwave | ZAPPING |
| Yellow flower | JONQUIL |
| __ cuisine | HAUTE |
| __ loss | ATA |