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Feeling Lucky Page · Saturday, 7 February 2026 · Ahhhh!
February 2026
Saturday,
7 February 2026
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Across
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1 Down's rule of thumb: 80 percent of the results, 20 percent of the effort, 100 percent of the LinkedIn posts (9)
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Reddit session where a celebrity answers everything except the one question everybody asked (3)
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US agency that grades your car's mileage and your factory's smoke, briefly (3)
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Currency Italy traded for the euro and Turkey kept (4)
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Company whose name became a verb and whose parent is 38 Across (6)
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Apply force, as the gym membership hoped you would (5)
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What you do to a dosa, and what the bigger fish does to the smaller one (3)
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Old enough to be cool again, like vinyl and the Nokia 3310 (5)
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Space station Russia kept aloft with duct tape and optimism until 2001 (3)
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Scout group, or a band of monkeys planning a raid on your balcony (5)
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Inbox item that 'hopes this finds you well' and never does (5)
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Tom Hanks's only co-star on the island, and the brand printed on the ball (6)
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Tata's IT giant, the first line on half of Chennai's resumes, briefly (3)
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Windows or Android, briefly: the software that boots before the arguments start (2)
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Football jersey set; also the first-aid box you cannot find when someone is bleeding (3)
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Three-wheeler whose meter is purely decorative in Bangalore (4)
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What the cylinder runs out of the morning the guests arrive (3)
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Boxing finish that also ends a Street Fighter round (2)
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What a mathematician demands and a whisky label boasts (5)
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Bill who wanted a computer on every desk; also what the airport keeps changing on you (5)
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Parent of 10 Across, named from A to Z with a pun on investment returns (8)
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Word that builds a simile, or arsenic on the periodic table (2)
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Vilfredo who noticed a fifth of his pea pods held most of the peas, and got a rule named after him (6)
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The one who says 'we are a family' right before the layoffs, briefly (3)
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2004 event that turned a search company's in-house chef into a millionaire, briefly (3)
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Algorithm named for Larry, not for paper, that judged a website by the company it kept (8)
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What the phone buzzes with, and what the third coffee makes you (5)
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Appliance that fights the wet grinder for counter space; also a party where nobody knows anybody (5)
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What the archer, the cursor, and the 'you are here' sign all have (5)
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Note after sol, or the city after the 405 freeway (2)
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Homesick alien, or the 'and' on a French bakery sign (2)
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Gandhi's white cap, the one every politician suddenly owns in election season (4)
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What the medium is, according to McLuhan; also the thing WhatsApp says was deleted (7)
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Textspeak prefix for the opinion nobody asked for (3)
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What a lumberjack cuts and a server keeps (3)
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Small plate in Seville that becomes a large bill in Bandra (4)
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Command-line tool that fetches a URL; also what monsoon humidity does to hair (4)
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Red sign that every Indian driver treats as a suggestion (4)
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Swedish shop where the furniture arrives flat and the marriage gets tested (4)
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Coin flip that decides who bats first, or what you do to a salad (4)
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Sound the crowd makes at fireworks and at a six over long-on (3)
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Day this puzzle lands, briefly; also what the tail-ender did in the pavilion until tea (3)
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Note after mi, or the Cup that non-league sides dream about (2)