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Kiss It Better · Saturday, 7 March 2026 · Ahhhh!
March 2026
Saturday,
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Flamboyant garden bloom, Mexico's national flower (6)
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Digits in the rightmost column, or loved ___ (4)
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Either's partner (2)
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Grecian vessel Keats wrote an ode to (3)
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What you can do again once the sting stops (4)
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Toothpaste brand with a red-and-white smile (7)
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Slide downhill on one of a pair (3)
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Greek letter that moonlights as micro (2)
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Blue-tin skincare brand from Hamburg (5)
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Drift on the breeze, as a smell from the kitchen (4)
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Cream in the first-aid tin, sister in spirit to 31 Across (6)
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Golfer's warning shout (4)
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You and I (2)
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Bond, for one (3)
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Direction a stubbed toe makes you jump (2)
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Sheeran, or a newspaper's opinion page, briefly (2)
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Brown bottle that turns bathwater cloudy and smells of clean (6)
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Spiky plant whose gel soothes sunburn (4)
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Eager, or sharp as a blade (4)
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Bulb that keeps vampires and dinner guests at a distance (6)
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Red patch on the skin, or a hasty decision (4)
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Moon's path, or the socket an eye sits in (5)
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Group of judges, or one flat side of a door (5)
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Bugs Bunny's greeting, or who you see if the cut needs stitches (3)
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Pleasant smell, of coffee or of a warm bakery (5)
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Carry something heavy with visible effort (3)
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Persia, on today's maps (4)
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What 22 Across and 31 Across are: the sting before the healing (10)
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Cry when 5 Down meets the graze (2)
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Like a voice that sounds pinched at the nose (5)
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Large deer, or a lodge member (3)
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Like a knee that met the pavement on a Saturday (7)
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Straw-hatted rubber pirate chasing the One Piece (5)
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Longoria, or Perón before the musical (3)
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Night before, or the first woman (3)
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Used to be (3)
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___ and fro (2)
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Be in debt (3)
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Regret, or a Paris street (3)
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Like bears at the top of the world, or opposite extremes (5)
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Counter for pastrami and pickles (4)
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Ladies' fingers in the vegetable aisle, slippery in a gumbo (4)
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Tilt, or short on fat (4)
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In the past, as in 'long ___' (3)
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Sphere a monarch holds, sceptre in the other hand (3)
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Bearing halfway between E and SE, briefly (3)
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League where Canadians settle things on ice, briefly (3)
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Player who does the chasing in playground tag (2)