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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, February 7, 2026 Constructed by Matthew Sewell 70 clues
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Across

  1. Hollywood power player? 6 ℓ
  2. Big aspirations 5 ℓ
  3. Oaf's handlers 5 ℓ
  4. Maori celebratory dance 4 ℓ
  5. "Feliz ano __!" (Rio 1/1 wish) 4 ℓ
  6. Big cheeses 10 ℓ
  7. Part of a major plot 4 ℓ
  8. Westfalenpark's region 4 ℓ
  9. It replaced all its STOP signs with PRIORITE A DROITE 5 ℓ
  10. Vindication exclamation 3 ℓ
  11. Overpraise 8 ℓ
  12. Wedgwood or Spode 6 ℓ
  13. Bishop of Jerusalem c. 100 8 ℓ
  14. Square accounts for 6 ℓ
  15. Acoustical nightmares 5 ℓ
  16. Lacking 6 ℓ
  17. Bike maintenance tools 6 ℓ
  18. Work through, as baggage 8 ℓ
  19. Porch problem 6 ℓ
  20. Chip choice 8 ℓ
  21. Flapper, frequently 4 ℓ
  22. Rhinoscope user 3 ℓ
  23. Deer-resistant perennial 5 ℓ
  24. palmerfoundation.org nickname 10 ℓ
  25. Vegan dessert staple 4 ℓ
  26. Obsessions 4 ℓ
  27. FedEx package scanning tech 4 ℓ
  28. Stress 5 ℓ
  29. Serial port successor 3 ℓ
  30. "Pamper" antonym 4 ℓ
  31. Certain shape for the road 4 ℓ
  32. Portraitist preface 15 ℓ
  33. Etiquette de __ (French conventioneer accessory) 3 ℓ
  34. Strikes out 4 ℓ
  35. It's highly resistant to 17-Across 4 ℓ
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Down

  1. End of the Unknown Soldier inscription 3 ℓ
  2. Cog. __ 3 ℓ
  3. Tracking target 4 ℓ
  4. Cheerful-sounding sobriquet 5 ℓ
  5. Logical starting points 6 ℓ
  6. They're not particular 15 ℓ
  7. First run 3 ℓ
  8. De-escalate? 5 ℓ
  9. 1890s inventor out to "out-Eiffel Eiffel" 6 ℓ
  10. Supporter of Notre Dame's reconstruction 14 ℓ
  11. It inspired the spray gun 8 ℓ
  12. Their looks are deceiving 5 ℓ
  13. Sew up a situation 5 ℓ
  14. Seussical frequent singer 6 ℓ
  15. Word from the Greek for "ship" 6 ℓ
  16. Mega store 5 ℓ
  17. Workplace woe, with 51-Down 5 ℓ
  18. Cat with at least three common aliases 4 ℓ
  19. What craft are called 3 ℓ
  20. See 44-Down 3 ℓ
  21. Quad, to another quad 3 ℓ
  22. Impenitent pronouncement 14 ℓ
  23. Bathymetric mapping tool 5 ℓ
  24. Contestant 5 ℓ
  25. Where Galileo discovered moons of Jupiter 5 ℓ
  26. Neighbor 4 ℓ
  27. Defeat decisively, in sports headlines 5 ℓ
  28. Unsurpassed 4 ℓ
  29. Steam-producing vessels 4 ℓ
  30. Floor show specialist 5 ℓ
  31. They're often in brass' past 4 ℓ
  32. 34-Down options 4 ℓ
  33. Protection provision 8 ℓ
  34. They're on Michigan's Spectacular Peninsulas plates 5 ℓ
  35. "It snewed in his hous of __ and drinke": Chaucer 4 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, February 7, 2026 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Matthew Sewell. The puzzle features 70 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

Click any clue above to view its dedicated answer page, which includes letter-by-letter analysis, the puzzle context, and a history of every other Newsday puzzle the same clue or answer has appeared in. To see the complete grid filled in with every answer, use the “Reveal grid” button at the top of the grid.

The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.

Newsday SATURDAY STUMPER Crossword February 7 2026 Answers