Crossword Answers for Friday, 20 March 2026
All 30 answers to the daily crossword for Friday, 20 March 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Second in order of importance BETA
- 5
- A disparaging term for a British person POM
- 8
- A particular environment or walk of life ARENA
- 10
- A single person or thing ONE
- 11
- Unusual largeness in size or extent or number GREATNESS
- 13
- Furnish with a hat HATES
- 14
- Someone who is skilled at analyzing data ANALYST
- 17
- Extremely offensive name for a Black person SPADE
- 18
- Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases ANNOTATED
- 23
- A male subordinate MEN
- 24
- Selected as the best ELITE
- 25
- Express in words SAY
- 26
- Examine hastily SCAN
Down
- 1
- Mammary gland of bovids BAG
- 2
- To make a mistake or be incorrect ERR
- 3
- The starting place for each hole on a golf course TEE
- 4
- A collection of anecdotes about a person or place ANA
- 5
- A writer of poems POETS
- 6
- The beginning or early stages ONSET
- 7
- Soft semiliquid food MESS
- 9
- A person trained to compete in sports ATHLETE
- 12
- A negative NAY
- 14
- Transient cessation of respiration APNEA
- 15
- Female goat NANNY
- 16
- A rapid active commotion ADO
- 17
- A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target SAMS
- 19
- A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite ALS
- 20
- A local and habitual twitching especially in the face TIC
- 21
- The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet ETA
- 22
- A unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts DEN