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Too Close to the Sun · Saturday, 28 February 2026 · Ahhhh!
February 2026
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Across
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Outdoor brand named for a mountain's coldest, most forbidding side (5,4)
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Mark left by a healed wound, or Simba's scheming uncle (4)
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Late-summer babies, astrologically speaking (6)
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Poke into action (4)
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Decks out, as a tree in December (6)
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Sign the ancients read in a flight of birds (4)
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Stitch (3)
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Budget airline, or what a ghost is made of (6)
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Eleven on a pitch (4)
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Model aeroplane in a box, before assembly (3)
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Olde-shoppe article (2)
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Pa's partner (2)
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Sun god who drove his chariot across the Greek sky each day (6)
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Nymph who could only repeat what she heard, or what she left in the canyon (4)
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The solver, to the setter (3)
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Fish eggs (4)
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Wax-winged boy who ignored his father's flight plan (6)
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Hopping mad (5)
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Currency of Turkey, and of Italy before the euro (4)
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Spanish region of flamenco, the Alhambra and Seville oranges (9)
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Snake that ended Cleopatra's story (3)
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Ruth's mother-in-law in the Bible, or supermodel Campbell (5)
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Command, or what a waiter takes (5)
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New Deal power agency, briefly (3)
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Kept out of sight (3)
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Winter's morning glaze, or the poet of the road not taken (5)
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See eye to eye (5)
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Twitty of country music, or the mathematician behind the Game of Life (6)
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Curvy letter (3)
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Harvest, or trim a photo (4)
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Winged goddess of victory whose name is on many a sneaker (4)
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Cradle of writing between the Tigris and the Euphrates (7)
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Reddit shorthand for a fact you just picked up (3)
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Gorgon whose gaze turned heroes to stone (6)
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Note before do (2)
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Oak in embryo (5)
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Leafy perennial for a shady border (5)
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Country whose capital, Damascus, is among the oldest cities on Earth (5)
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Lead the way, or the top of the body (4)
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Belonging to us (3)
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The Greatest, in the ring (3)
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Chicago's elevated train, familiarly (2)