Subj : Daily Crossword
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Tue Aug 26 2025 08:05:12

Freestyle 919 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5-------6---7---8---9---10------11--12--13-+
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1. "Color me     |14-+---+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---|
surprised!"      |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
6. Toy steered   |17-+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
from afar        |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
11. What         |19-+---+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---|
involves a test  |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
tube, for        |22-+---+---+23-+24-+---+25-+---+---+---+26-+---+---+---+---|
short?           |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
14. A size or    |27-+---+---+---+---+28-+---+---+---+---+29-+---+30-+31-+32-|
two too big      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
15. Reaction to  |---+---+---+33-+---+---+---+---+34-+35-+---+---+---+---+---|
getting soaked   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
17. One alone    |36-+37-+38-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
on the range     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
18. Refocus      |39-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
19. Larva        |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
predecessors     |40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+41-+---+---+---+---+42-+43-+44-|
20. Committed    |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
21. They have    |---+---+---+45-+---+46-+47-+---+---+---+48-+---+---+---+---|
it in passing    |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
22. Geographic   |49-+50-+51-+---+---+52-+---+---+---+---+---+---+53-+---+---|
region in which  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
Ben-Gurion       |54-+---+---+---+55-+---+---+---+56-+---+57-+58-+---+---+---|
University is    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
found            |59-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+60-+---+---+---+---|
25. Leader       |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
chronicled in    |61-+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---+---+---+63-+---+---+---+---|
the Pushkin      |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
poem "The        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
Bronze           
Horseman"                                           "approximately")        
27. Squeezed something    1. "...okay then, ignore  32. What you might feed 
out of, as a lemon        me"                       paper?                  
29. Slangy commercial     2. Popular sucker?        34. Holy places called  
suffix indicating a big   3. Be super enthused      such because they       
event                     4. The estate of Michael  resemble ships          
33. "We're stuck... any   Jackson was part of a     35. Father-in-law of    
bright ideas?!"           consortium that bought    Queen Sonja             
36. Legal term for        it in 2012                36. Airer of the        
religious references in   5. There should always    Raptors' first three NBA
official American         be one on a toddler       seasons                 
government items, such    6. "Tabletop"             37. Turkish, maybe:     
as "In God We Trust" on   entertainment, briefly    Abbr.                   
money                     7. Trend in which         38. What might involve a
39. "Alas, it was all     employers are requiring   few turns, briefly      
for naught"               higher and higher         42. Ready for the next  
40. He ordered the death  qualifications to fill    one                     
of the title character    open job positions        43. It's often bad to   
in Sophocles' "Antigone"  8. Be good enough         have it down            
41. Stop going up and     9. Part of a vacuum tube  44. What you're in no   
down                      10. Infamous patricide    rush to achieve, for    
45. Class for most med    committer of sci-fi       short?                  
school students           11. "Y'hear me?"          46. Athena sends one out
48. Didn't leave an       12. Make like heat        to Odysseus as a sign in
organizer hanging         13. Lead alternatives     the Iliad               
49. Troll's taunt to a    16. Parts of some escape  47. "To be or not to    
ranting Web forum poster  routes                    be...", e.g.            
52. It may work better    23. Like monitor          49. Chain that helps    
when it's cupped          displays that have no     with your makeup        
53. Sight to marvel at?   black border              50. One species of them 
54. Having a sizable      24. Setting for the 2022  had the scientific name 
span                      Noah Kahan hit song       "Dinornis               
57. Spaces between hotel  "Stick Season"            novaezealandiae"        
rooms, maybe              25. Thing with two        51. Old symbol theorized
59. Sleep with            colors, but many tones    to have represented a   
60. Frame builders,       26. Like punk concerts,   sandal strap            
informally                vis-a-vis smooth jazz     55. Social media tags,  
61. Something tapped out  concerts                  informally              
on a break                28. Cole of "Angie        56. One concerned with  
62. Changes bangs         Tribeca" and "Black-ish"  gag reflexes, briefly   
63. For reals             30. Raw roll option       57. Something to brush  
                          31. _____ o menos         up on?                  
DOWN                      (Spanish                  58. Not-bad connection  

--- Binbrook, ON: Sunny +10oC, UV Index: 0
 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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