Answer: PESTO
PESTO is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 125 times.
Referring Clues:
- Genoese creation
 - Pasta go-with
 - Basil-based sauce
 - Sauce made with pine nuts
 - Marinara alternative
 - Italian sauce
 - Trattoria topping
 - Pasta sauce with basil
 - Trattoria sauce
 - Sauce with basil
 - Linguine sauce
 - 49-Across topper, maybe
 - Pasta topper
 - Basil-based topping
 - Green pasta sauce
 - Green sauce
 - Sauce with pine nuts
 - Topping for fish or meat
 - It may cover shells
 - Pasta topping
 - Green basil sauce
 - Sauce in un ristorante
 - Topping made with pine nuts
 - Green Italian sauce
 - Rotini topper
 - Penne topper
 - ___ alla genovese (sauce)
 - Green topping
 - Pasta topping made with pine nuts
 - Linguine topper
 - Basil and pine nut sauce
 - Basil sauce
 - Basil + oil + garlic
 - Nutty Italian sauce
 - Pasta sauce choice
 - Basil-based spaghetti topper
 - Alfredo alternative
 - Sauce whose name is Italian for "pounded"
 - Basil-and-pine-nuts sauce
 - Sauce prepared in a mortar
 - Tortellini topping
 - Gnocchi sauce
 - Genoese cuisine sauce
 - Sauce made with basil
 - Fettuccine topping
 - Pasta sauce
 - Green stuff
 - Spaghetti sauce
 - Sauce from Genoa
 - Basil-flavored sauce
 - Pasta topper, perhaps
 - Green basil-based sauce
 - Gnocchi topper
 - Fettuccine topper
 - Trattoria topper
 - Certain spaghetti sauce
 - Basil and pine-nuts sauce
 - It may cover elbows
 - Sauce with a name that means pounded
 - Sauce with a name that means "pounded"
 - Linguini sauce
 - Linguine topping
 - Food item whose name means "pounded"
 - Alternative to marinara
 - ___ alla genovese
 - Pizza topping
 - Its ingredients might include olive oil, basil, and pignoli
 - Topping made in a mortar
 - Sauce with crushed garlic and basil
 - Green covering for shells
 - Think the world of
 - Green pasta topping
 - Garlic-basil sauce
 - Genoese delicacy
 - What you get when you blend the results of this puzzle's recipe instructions
 - Basil-based sauce (though you can also use peas or garlic scapes)
 - Sauce devised in Genoa
 - Basil-garlic sauce
 - Pasta sauce option
 - Gnocchi topping
 - Pasta option
 - Sauce with a name derived from the Italian for "pounded"
 - Tangy sauce
 - Linguini topper
 - Sauce for linguine
 - Sauce traditionally made in a mortar
 - Green sauce for pasta
 - Bow tie topper
 - Nutty green sauce
 - What fills some shells
 - Genoese contribution to Italian cuisine
 - Rigatoni sauce
 - Green topping at a trattoria
 - Basil and garlic sauce
 - Sauce with the same consonants as what it's used on
 - Sauce on some pizzas
 - Garlicky pasta sauce
 - Word from the Italian for "crush"
 - Sauce traditionally prepared in a mortar
 - Ingredient in green gnocchi
 - Green topping for gnocchi
 - Tagliatelle topper
 - Pine nut sauce
 - What coats some shells
 - Garlicky green sauce
 - Sauce for gnocchi
 - Red sauce alternative
 - Basil-based green sauce
 - Italian sauce with pine nuts
 - Sauce NYT Cooking described as "a mouthful of bright summer"
 - Topping that becomes the food it's eaten with when its vowels are changed to A's
 - Green sauce originated in Genoa
 - Sauce whose name derives from "pound" in Italian
 - Sauce for capellini
 - Sauce for bucatini
 - Sauce that often contains nuts
 - Oily sauce
 - Herbaceous sauce
 - Sauce made with basil and pine nuts
 - Green trattoria topping
 - Italian sauce whose name means pounded
 - Sauce that originated in Genoa
 - Sauce for a caprese sandwich
 - Basil based sauce
 - Topping dolloped on fresh Italian tomatoes, maybe
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - November 02, 2025
 - New York Times - September 05, 2025
 - LA Times - July 27, 2025
 - USA Today - May 16, 2025
 - LA Times - April 01, 2025
 - USA Today - March 21, 2025
 - LA Times - January 31, 2025
 - New York Times - November 22, 2024
 - LA Times - November 19, 2024
 - New York Times - October 14, 2024
 - LA Times - August 01, 2024
 - New York Times - May 05, 2024
 - New York Times - April 15, 2024
 - USA Today - March 14, 2024
 - New York Times - February 27, 2024
 - USA Today - February 09, 2024
 - LA Times - January 10, 2024
 - USA Today - September 14, 2023
 - LA Times - August 09, 2023
 - USA Today - July 19, 2023
 
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