Here are the answers to USA Today Crossword puzzles Friday February 26, 2021.
‘All the Stars’ singer – SZA
‘I’m standing right here!’ – AHEM
‘It Ain’t Over ___ It’s Over’ – TIL
‘Native American ___: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science’ (Kim TallBear book) – DNA
‘Nobody Love’ singer – TORIKELLY
‘The ___ does not exist’ – LIMIT
‘What ___ doing here?!’ – AMI
12/31, e.g – EVE
Accessory for a Brownie – SASH
Annie Murphy’s ‘Schitt’s Creek’ role – ALEXIS
Any number minus itself – ZERO
Author Anais – NIN
Ball of paper or gum – WAD
Banish – EXILE
Body of a ship – HULL
Boxer Wolfe who appeared in ‘Wonder Woman’ – ANN
Breakfast roll with schmear – BAGEL
Cancel – NIX
Cheese sometimes served with saag – PANEER
Citrusy soda flavor – LEMONLIME
Color changer – DYE
Colorful play area – BALLPIT
Cracked open – AJAR
Delicate fabric – LACE
Didn’t freak out – KEPTCOOL
Dove’s sound – COO
Early DVR brand – TIVO
Eartha Kitt’s ‘Batman’ role – CATWOMAN
Eat a meal – DINE
Explosive letters – TNT
Fast-paced two-player card game – SPIT
Fathered – SIRED
Filmmaker Jordan – PEELE
Fireplace residue – ASH
Fix illegally – RIG
Floral garland – LEI
Friends, in Spanish – AMIGAS
Gave the stink eye – GLARED
Give for protection – ENTRUST
Golf peg – TEE
Historical periods – ERAS
Hockey attempts – SHOTS
Important component of activism – SELFCARE
In favor of individual agency – HUMANIST
Jellyfish habitat – SEA
Learn more about – READUPON
Malevolent – EVIL
Marinated Filipino dish – ADOBO
Meek – TIMID
Messaged with thumbs, perhaps – TEXTED
Molecules are made of them – ATOMS
Mysterious fairy tale setting – ENCHANTEDFOREST
Newly invigorated – REBORN
Nimble – AGILE
Non-rolled sushi dish – NIGIRI
Outs’ opposites – INS
Palindromic bit of ink – TAT
Pesky pests – GNATS
Pic – PHOTO
Pie ___ mode – ALA
Pointy frozen mass – ICICLE
PR workers, for short – REPS
Relay portion – LEG
Road repair goo – TAR
Routing preposition – VIA
Sobbed – WEPT
Softest mineral on the Mohs scale – TALC
Sounds of hesitation – UMS
Staircase part – STEP
State of being alone – SOLITUDE
Striped predator – TIGER
Supreme being – GOD
The second ‘L’ of lol – LOUD
Thermal protection for a diver – WETSUIT
Verb on a campaign sign – ELECT
Wins over – DISARMS
Word after ‘cinnamon’ or ‘Tootsie’ – ROLL
___ vu – DEJA
