RIVAL'S REMARK
Across
- Calibrate, perhaps
- Must
- Casablanca costuming
- Not at all familiar
- Rushdie title
- Exclamation of expectation
- Case workers
- Middle of comment
- Macbeth preposition
- Speaking of
- Change at Galileo Airport
- SFO info
- End of comment
- Enticement
- Slender swimmers
- Mounts, as gems
- Farm cart
- Monsieur Matisse
- Wonder-full feeling
- Midwestern metropolis
- With 26-Across, speaker of comment
- First spoken word in Genesis
- Revved up
- To whom the comment was spoken
- Acquiesce
- See 17-Across
- Favoring
- Dolce, on music
- Top-10 baby girl name for 2023
- Soft rock
- Legendary story byline
- 20-Across' The Dragons of __
- Start of a comment
- Scorching
- Tale's place
Down
- Sashimi fish
- Common regatta trophy
- By-way connection
- Cover with graffiti
- Rial spender
- Act moderately
- Sorority letter
- Milk sources
- Football season
- Popular power sources
- Elegance of action
- Feminine name ending
- Toutes __ heures (hourly)
- Just browns
- Speaking of
- Uprose
- A generous disposition
- Jacob's second son
- Artisanal center
- Manet medium
- Any of the 24-Down
- Patterned after
- Many a bridesmaid
- Finder's fee
- On-target
- Grade school supplies
- Salon employee
- Opened, say
- D-Day codename
- Shuttle, sometimes
- Rather wide
- Cats finale
- Certain roaster
- Restorative treatment
- Mark permanently
- Suite part
- Nonstandard negative
- Cry of success
- Seeing things
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Friday, March 14, 2025 is titled “RIVAL'S REMARK” and was constructed by S.N.. The puzzle features 74 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.
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