Crossword Answers for Sunday, 8 March 2026

All 46 answers to the daily crossword for Sunday, 8 March 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.

Across

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A man who serves as a sailor TAR
4
The act of using USE
7
A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
10
A single person or thing ONE
11
An illegal daily lottery NUMBERS
13
Take a siesta NAP
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Expect and wish DESIRES
15
Put in a horizontal position LAID
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A local and habitual twitching especially in the face TIC
18
Remove from memory or existence ERASE
20
Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants OIL
22
A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences TECHS
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A justification for something existing or happening CAUSE
25
Take in solid food ATE
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The beginning or early stages ONSET
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One who is playfully mischievous IMP
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Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive RAIN
30
Someone who is dreaming DREAMER
32
The compass point midway between northeast and east ENE
35
The act of paying for the use of something RENTALS
36
Turbulent water with swells of considerable size SEA
37
Up to the present time YET
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The seed of the cereal grass RYE
39
A unit of play in tennis or squash SET

Down

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A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds TON
2
A collection of anecdotes about a person or place ANA
3
A person who follows next in order REPLACEMENT
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Women's underwear UNDIES
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Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against SUED
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A quad with a square body EMS
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An earnest and sincere feeling SERIOUSNESS
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Sharply exact or accurate or delimited PRECISE
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A pompous fool ASS
12
A small fragment BIT
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The residue that remains when something is burned ASH
18
The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet ETA
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Someone who has retired from active working RETIREE
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Leave unchanged LET
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Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste COARSE
24
Black tropical American cuckoo ANI
28
Hit lightly PAT
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Have confidence or faith in RELY
30
Not producing milk DRY
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Make imperfect MAR
33
Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman NEE
34
Take in solid food EAT