SATURDAY STUMPER
Across
- Stranded swabbers
- Fission mission ambition
- Sorority letter
- What Alberta produces most of in Canada
- Word from the Latin for "scrape"
- Epilogue writer of Malcolm's autobiography
- Faced left
- What the Thames Estuary borders
- Lock up
- __ for a Day (Eastern admissions office program)
- Motorless, wheelless transportation
- Personal favor
- Sunmobile was the first one (1955)
- Played together
- Robin Hood emulator of Brit Lit
- Gallo brand name
- Bugged
- Baja Fresh, for instance
- First-ballot leader at the 1860 Republican Convention
- Finding Dory title character
- Shed of a sort
- Two-Oscar actor in the 2010s
- Round for a course
- Metaphor for personal progress
- Call for
- Caesars birthplace
- They don't go straight
- Brit's ladder
- Be a babbler
- Sorority letter
- Drop collectors
- Teddy Roosevelt established 150 of them
- Feature of each of the nine Star Wars films
Down
- Cryptocurrency code container
- Rousseau's "big coward"
- Influential VIPs
- Deny no longer
- Keep, right or left
- Origin of many 2x4s
- Prodigious accounts
- Origin of many 2x4s
- Speak rhetorically
- They retired Willie Mays' #24
- Less than half a day
- Zony or zorse
- Lara after Angelina
- Curve cutter
- Labor with vigor
- There's no bones about it
- __ shirt
- Anthill stratum
- Is abuzz
- Fluency
- Receives or takes out
- Cleared out
- Start of Joan of Arc's century
- Seatless transportation
- He "stood between parents and children on rainy days," said his Dartmouth doctorate citation
- Basic tonality
- Title character nickname in a 2023 blockbuster
- Country with an American namesake
- By which you'll look at things differently
- Taken alone
- Spontaneous
- "Every __ shall be lifted up": Isaiah
- Fragment de cartographie
- Small square-finned swimmer
- Boa, for instance
- Big name in brewing
- Big name in brewing
About this puzzle
The Newsday Crossword for Saturday, March 29, 2025 is titled “SATURDAY STUMPER” and was constructed by Anna Stiga. 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.