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Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 08:05:14

Freestyle 982 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

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serve right      ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³   ³ÞÛݳÞÛݳÞÛݳ
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18. Type of      ³   ³   ³   ³   ³ÞÛݳÞÛݳÞÛݳ   ³   ³   ³   ³ÞÛݳ   ³   ³   ³
show that often  ÀÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÙ
shows some       
bums?                     56. Copper container,     Roger the alien on      
19. "Good seeing you"     perhaps                   "American Dad!"         
21. "I am _____ thy       57. Geographic name that  18. "Ease up a bit"     
first-born" (words        came from the Kazakh for  20. First minutes       
deviously spoken by       "island"                  24. Scottish clan to    
Jacob)                    58. Skin care or hair     which the folk hero Rob 
22. Places where racks    care product              Roy belonged            
can go on racks           59. Apt name for a        26. Dutch half of a     
23. "Lilies" that aren't  sibling of Levi?          divided Caribbean island
really lilies             60. Some journalists'     27. Its goal is a hole  
25. Red Bulls and such    gear                      28. Trouble no end      
27. Material for a        61. "R‚f‚rendum" side     32. Dry Cali red        
projector                 62. Word used in          33. "You don't have to  
29. Old symbol on a       exaggerating a wait       fill us in"             
French coat of arms                                 35. Small opening to    
30. One might hear a      DOWN                      allow drainage, as in a 
cowbell in one                                      retaining wall          
31. "Not as dumb of an    1. One may get a hero's   36. Band that           
idea as you thought,      welcome at a pep rally,   incorporates lots of    
huh?"                     briefly                   talk                    
34. "My dream ended up    2. Folk style often       37. Lead-in to a        
as just that... a dream"  heard around Plaza        hypocrisy accusation    
38. "What if I            Garibaldi                 39. Sports brand whose  
don't...?!"               3. To be managed by       name is properly        
39. Word between          4. What might awaken a    stressed on its first   
"compa¤eras"              French farmer             syllable, not its second
42. "Why... did you have  5. Still intact, somehow  40. "I've got so much   
to tell me that?!"        6. Ones often in charge   honey, the bees envy me"
43. High-gravity status   of computer               hit song                
44. A stubborn person     infrastructure, briefly   41. Crude rail carrier  
might hold onto           7. "Pow!!!"               45. Celebratory pieces  
something until this      8. Color that's one       46. Bit of              
47. Give shelter to, in   letter off from a 1970s   acknowledgment in       
a way                     sitcom                    Kingston                
48. What one might come   9. It's trying for you    50. Acronymic insult    
in from the cold          10. "Let's do this!"      used by some political  
49. Shout with an eye     11. Site of a 1905        gatekeepers             
patch                     mutiny immortalized in a  52. One in a complicated
51. Rub on a stone        classic Eisenstein film   time, it's often said   
53. Salsa producer,       14. Player of Uncle       55. Letter writer's     
maybe                     Arthur on "Bewitched",    brief closing           
54. Mutual diplomatic     whom Seth MacFarlane    
respect                   evoked in his voice of  

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