Subj : Daily Crossword
To   : All
From : Northern Realms
Date : Mon Sep 08 2025 08:05:16

Freestyle 931 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4-------5---6---7---8-----------9---10--11--12-+
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1. They're used  |13-+---+---+---+---+14-+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---+---|
to skirt         |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
spending         |16-+---+---+---+---+17-+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---|
limits, briefly  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
5. Canada's      |19-+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---+---+---|
Distant Early    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|
Warning Line     |---+---+22-+---+---+---+---+---+23-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
served to warn   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
of an            |24-+25-+---+---+---+---+---+26-+---+---+---+---+27-+28-+29-|
approaching      |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
one, briefly     |30-+---+---+---+31-+32-+33-+---+---+---+---+34-+---+---+---|
9. Feeling with  |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
big-grin energy  |35-+---+---+36-+---+37-+---+---+---+---+---+38-+---+---+---|
13. Place for    |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
country          |39-+---+---+---+---+40-+---+---+---+---+41-+---+42-+---+---|
exhibitions      |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
14. One mainly   |43-+---+---+---+44-+---+---+---+---+---+45-+46-+---+---+---|
working inside   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
15. "Dinner!"    |---+---+---+47-+---+---+---+---+48-+49-+---+---+---+---+---|
16. Snifter      |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|
shape            |---+50-+51-+---+---+---+---+52-+---+---+---+---+---+53-+54-|
17. Event that   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
has lots of      |55-+---+---+---+---+---+56-+---+---+---+---+57-+---+---+---|
dates            |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
18. Take care    |58-+---+---+---+---+---+59-+---+---+---+---+60-+---+---+---|
of one's duties  |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
on the computer  |61-+---+---+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---+---+63-+---+---+---|
19. They can no  |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
longer save you  +-----------------------------------------------------------+
22. 50/50        
option                    with a portmanteau name   20. De _____ du tout    
23. Like a verb that      56. Space around          (French for             
doesn't take a direct     57. Fix on the sea        "insignificant")        
object: Abbr.             58. One might own a       21. Cause of goosebumps,
24. Making reasonable     throwback Mark McGwire    say                     
people go "???"           jersey                    24. Woody Allen's       
26. Music genre with an   59. Ayer, hoy, y manana,  "Manhattan" role        
"atmospheric" sound       e.g.                      25. Causing goosebumps, 
30. Confider of close     60. What you get when     say                     
secrets, maybe            you take everything away  26. Utility bill        
31. South American        61. Onetime leader of     increasers              
rodent whose fur Elaine   the Milwaukee Labor       27. "No, no... I wanna  
tried to pass off as      Zionist Party             hear how this ends"     
sable fur in a            62. "Yeah, that's what I  28. LCD TV alternatives 
"Seinfeld" episode        think"                    29. They need help not  
34. Straight support      63. Like a hand after an  to light                
provider                  explosion, maybe          32. Sudden drastic      
35. Abbr. around some                               increase                
complex areas             DOWN                      33. Arboreal hoppers    
37. Particular                                      36. For which you might 
individual                1. "Innocent" figure,     dice tomatoes into a    
38. No friendly peep      thirteen times            bowl                    
39. Capital whose nation  2. What you can't get up  41. Pops... this clue   
removed "Western" from    from?                     has one                 
its name in 1997          3. Spectacularly awful    44. Ingredient for a    
40. An Olympic rugby      4. Like the paternal      36-Down                 
team is one               side of Steve Jobs'       46. Those who are now   
42. Word sometimes        ancestry                  classless?              
confused with a word for  5. Press to act           48. They should start   
goodbye                   6. Juice carriers         more than anyone        
43. One-eyed brothers     7. NASCAR dads, say       49. Project manager's   
who made Zeus's           8. One with a lot to say  division                
thunderbolt               about oneself             50. Down with a stunner 
45. "Whooo, girl!"        9. Get really dressed up  51. Go from 8% to 4%,   
47. Word that becomes     10. Source of some        say, informally         
its synonym when its      fruit?                    52. Not at all          
first two letters are     11. Cleaner shrimp might  "caliente"              
replaced with an "f"      clean them                53. Indicator of a      
48. Something crisp...    12. It's surrounded by a  driver error, maybe     
or in crisp               dangerous wall            54. Middle of a "wheel  
50. It may end with a     15. Separators of the     straight"               
suspended sentence        heart's ventricles and    55. One with a pom-pom  
55. Exercise regimen      atria                     on top                  

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 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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