Daily Themed Crossword March 9, 2024 Answers
Every clue and answer from the March 9, 2024 grid, in puzzle order.
March 9, 2024 — All 67 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Baseball hat | Show answer | 3 | |
| #2 | Young fellow in Scotland | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Distress signal at sea | Show answer | 3 | |
| #4 | Open-mouthed feeling of wonder | Show answer | 3 | |
| #5 | ___ your indoor voice (Quietly please) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #6 | Surrounding glow | Show answer | 4 | |
| #7 | Bon ___ (witty zinger) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #8 | Annoying rash symptom | Show answer | 4 | |
| #9 | Do ___ others... | Show answer | 4 | |
| #10 | Children's outdoor area for fun and games...and the nostalgic theme connecting 30a 37a 45a and 44d | Show answer | 10 | |
| #11 | Vowels other than a and u | Show answer | 3 | |
| #12 | ___ Patrick's Day | Show answer | 5 | |
| #13 | ___ bear (mother bear) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #14 | Race down snow-covered slopes | Show answer | 3 | |
| #15 | Shriek of horror | Show answer | 3 | |
| #16 | ___ in the Graveyard kids' spooky game you might spot being played at 17a | Show answer | 5 | |
| #17 | Popeye's love Olive ___ who was created by E.C. Segar | Show answer | 3 | |
| #18 | Furious feeling | Show answer | 3 | |
| #19 | Spanish for more | Show answer | 3 | |
| #20 | Kg or Lbs for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #21 | Capture the ___ kids' game where teams sneak into each other's territory often played in 17a | Show answer | 4 | |
| #22 | Tend to the soup | Show answer | 4 | |
| #23 | Beam of light | Show answer | 3 | |
| #24 | A in French | Show answer | 3 | |
| #25 | Famous psychoanalyst ___ Erikson | Show answer | 4 | |
| #26 | Simon ___ kids' game with many imitators often played in 17a | Show answer | 4 | |
| #27 | 911 respondents: Abbr. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #28 | FaceTime's mobile platform | Show answer | 3 | |
| #29 | Hiker's hard ascent say | Show answer | 4 | |
| #30 | Fiddle-playing Roman emperor | Show answer | 4 | |
| #31 | Be moved to tears | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | ___ and improved! (label on a gadget) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | Alternative to sweetie pie | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | Barbie's boyfriend | Show answer | 3 | |
| #35 | Child's summer getaway perhaps | Show answer | 4 | |
| #36 | Missing from military duty say: Abbr. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #37 | Animal rights organization that protests fur coats: Abbr. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #38 | Mario's brother in video games | Show answer | 5 | |
| #39 | The Jetsons dog with a space-related name | Show answer | 5 | |
| #40 | Art ___ (early 20th-century architectural style) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #41 | Energy source for plants | Show answer | 3 | |
| #42 | Leftover morsel (anagram of rot) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #43 | ___ Paulo Brazilian city with the Museu do Ipiranga | Show answer | 3 | |
| #44 | Automaker with a four-ring logo | Show answer | 4 | |
| #45 | Siberian ___ (dog breed) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #46 | Affirmative votes (apt anagram of ayes) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #47 | Hammer's target | Show answer | 4 | |
| #48 | ___ Patrick Harris of The Matrix Resurrections | Show answer | 4 | |
| #49 | Mega- times mega- | Show answer | 4 | |
| #50 | Film studio with a lion logo: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #51 | Gotcha! exclamation | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | Velvety forest cover | Show answer | 4 | |
| #53 | Heavy drinker | Show answer | 3 | |
| #54 | Toga party barrel | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | Birthday-sharing sibling | Show answer | 4 | |
| #56 | Color often used on posters for environmental retreats | Show answer | 5 | |
| #57 | Just a heads-up to a texter: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #58 | Walrus or mammoth feature | Show answer | 4 | |
| #59 | Charmingly old-fashioned say | Show answer | 5 | |
| #60 | Crime involving fire | Show answer | 5 | |
| #61 | ___ the Can kids' game in which you go to jail if you're late to the can often played in 17a | Show answer | 4 | |
| #62 | Subway map dot for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #63 | What ___ the odds? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #64 | Coniferous tree that sounds like you | Show answer | 3 | |
| #65 | Expression of indifference | Show answer | 3 | |
| #66 | Refinable rock | Show answer | 3 | |
| #67 | Antonym's antonym for short | Show answer | 3 |
How the March 9, 2024 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for March 9, 2024, a Saturday. It contains 67 clues, which is a little above the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is PLAYGROUND at 10 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 5 clues are flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out. Those markers are reliable in this game and are the quickest way to fix a letter count before you commit to an entry.
Neighbouring dates are linked above, and the 2024 archive holds every daily puzzle from that year. There is also a mini crossword for March 9, 2024 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
March 9, 2024 — Questions
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3 Tips for the March 9, 2024 Crossword
The theme is a clue in itself
Daily Themed Crossword builds each board around one idea, and the themed entries are usually the longest answers on the grid. This board carries 67 clues with answers from 3 to 10 letters — work out what the long ones have in common and the rest of the grid opens up around them.
Short fills are where the crossings come from
Three- and four-letter answers are the cheapest squares on the board and they feed letters into every long entry they touch. When a themed answer will not come, fill the short ones around it first rather than staring at the clue.
There is a mini board for this date too
Daily Themed Crossword runs two boards a day. The mini crossword for March 9, 2024 is on its own page, and the two share a theme more often than not — solving one gives you a head start on the other.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this board
The 67 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the March 9, 2024 crossword on the day it ran, with the clue wording stored exactly as the game showed it and every answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
Last checked — Sep 9, 2026Daily Themed Crossword by the numbers
How to Solve a Daily Themed Crossword
How the daily and mini grids are built, and the order that solves them.
Read the theme before the clues
Daily Themed Crossword builds every puzzle around one idea, and the long entries almost always belong to it. Knowing the theme turns those from cold clues into a guessing game with a very short list.
Fill the short crossings first
Three and four letter answers use the most predictable vocabulary in the whole grid. Each one you place hands letters to the long clues for free, which is a better use of the first minute than staring at the hardest entry.
Abbreviations are signposted
A clue ending in "Abbr." or containing its own abbreviation is telling you the answer is short and clipped. The same goes for "Hyph." and "2 wds." — the clue format is half the answer.