Crossword Answers for Sunday, 1 March 2026

All 44 answers to the daily crossword for Sunday, 1 March 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.

Across

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Dress (food) with a relish SAUCE
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Create by digging DUG
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An actor's portrayal of someone in a play PERSONA
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A single person or thing ONE
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Brief description accompanying an illustration LEGENDS
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Tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive LIE
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Large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller EMU
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Add salt to SALTS
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A pompous fool ASS
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Watch and direct OVERSEE
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Cause to spin SPINS
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A violent wind TEMPEST
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Take in solid food ATE
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Pertaining to or characteristic of birds AVIAN
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Annoy persistently BUG
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Leave unchanged LET
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Cut or eliminate EDITING
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A mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined ORE
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Come apart DIVIDES
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A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies NYS
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Write by means of a keyboard with types TYPED

Down

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Appear to exist SEEMS
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Large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant ARGUS
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The act of using USE
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Deprive of by deceit CON
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A final state END
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Informal terms for a (young) woman DOLLS
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Become one UNITE
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Flesh of a goose GEESE
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A defendant's answer by a factual matter PLEA
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To agree or express agreement ASSENT
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A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters ARS
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Become open OPENED
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The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one VIS
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A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
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A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey TALON
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Each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified EVERY
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A slight but appreciable amount MITES
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Put up with something or somebody unpleasant ABIDE
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Adjust the pitches of TUNED
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Coat with beaten egg EGGS
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The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code DIT
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Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits IVY
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Cause to tilt TIP