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SATURDAY STUMPER

Saturday, February 8, 2025 Constructed by Frank Longo 70 clues
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Across

  1. Necesidad de la vida 4 ℓ
  2. People playing in vehicles 10 ℓ
  3. Descriptor of two South American countries 6 ℓ
  4. What flashing or swelling is symptomatic of 5 ℓ
  5. Putting concern 5 ℓ
  6. Pivotal point, perhaps 3 ℓ
  7. Asian capital-list leader 3 ℓ
  8. Traditional origin of rebellion 10 ℓ
  9. Night light sight 4 ℓ
  10. Saluting 10 ℓ
  11. Symbols for reflectivity or resistivity 4 ℓ
  12. Bestrode precariously 10 ℓ
  13. See 22-Across 4 ℓ
  14. Going off a lot 10 ℓ
  15. Olympians swore oaths on it 4 ℓ
  16. Vehicle storage site 4 ℓ
  17. Music to a gossip's ears 10 ℓ
  18. Bio of a sort 4 ℓ
  19. Dumping 10 ℓ
  20. It can't wait 10 ℓ
  21. Home port of the brigantine Niagara 4 ℓ
  22. With 61-Across, it might make fans louder 3 ℓ
  23. Town that presents the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award 3 ℓ
  24. Guitar sequence 5 ℓ
  25. Over the moon in Mexico 5 ℓ
  26. Alternates registers very quickly 6 ℓ
  27. What impatient people don't have 6 ℓ
  28. Chief proponent 4 ℓ
  29. Where a toy hits the floor 3 ℓ
  30. Neither foggy nor windy 15 ℓ
  31. Some field-hockey fashion 6 ℓ
  32. What anything can be in front of 4 ℓ
  33. Summit lengthener 3 ℓ
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Down

  1. Major attitude adjustment 9 ℓ
  2. Places where numbers are dialed 5 ℓ
  3. Fresh supply 5 ℓ
  4. Eat up 5 ℓ
  5. Fireballs 6 ℓ
  6. Most common labor issue 3 ℓ
  7. Town on the Chisholm Trail 4 ℓ
  8. Senseless 4 ℓ
  9. The world, figuratively 4 ℓ
  10. Short-story award eponym 6 ℓ
  11. Ill-defined 5 ℓ
  12. What seals the deal? 4 ℓ
  13. 1999 biography subtitled "Magician or Mystic?" 9 ℓ
  14. Xena's sidekick 9 ℓ
  15. Former Apple snap importer 6 ℓ
  16. Bond of the '80s 6 ℓ
  17. Buffet, old-style 5 ℓ
  18. How squeakers are typically lost 5 ℓ
  19. Last choice, often 5 ℓ
  20. Unlikely host 5 ℓ
  21. __ per second (power measure) 4 ℓ
  22. Result of a fashion emergency 4 ℓ
  23. School-__ 4 ℓ
  24. My Darling Clementine lead 4 ℓ
  25. Loup de __ (old salt: Fr.) 3 ℓ
  26. Citizen of the "Arab capital of Israel" 8 ℓ
  27. Not pass enough, perhaps 8 ℓ
  28. Name on the cover of A Bad Parent's Garden of Verse 5 ℓ
  29. 43rd st. 3 ℓ
  30. He outranks a comte 3 ℓ
  31. Jung's "principle of relationship" 4 ℓ
  32. Online "Ultimate Guide to the South" 4 ℓ
  33. It's often felt on Halloween 9 ℓ
  34. Field where Arabic etymologies are common 9 ℓ
  35. Region bordering Greater London 9 ℓ
  36. Baton twirler 3 ℓ
  37. Fort Meade-based org. 3 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, February 8, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Frank Longo. 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 8 2025 Answers