Subj : Daily Crossword
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Sun Aug 17 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 910 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5-------6---7---8---9---10------11--12--13-+
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1. Painful       |14-+---+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---+---+---+16-+---+---|
thing in the     |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
back             |17-+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+19-+---+---+---|
6. Able to help  |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
11. Pre-birth    |20-+---+---+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---+22-+---+---+---|
administration,  |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
colloquially     |---+---+---+23-+---+24-+---+25-+---+---+26-+---+---+---+---|
14. Rash         |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
quality, often   |27-+28-+29-+---+30-+---+31-+---+---+---+32-+---+---+---+---|
15. Reacted to   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
an insult, in a  |33-+---+---+34-+---+---+---+---+35-+36-+---+---+---+---+---|
way              |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
16. Segment of   |37-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+38-+39-+40-|
a hypnogram      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
17. Prepared     |---+---+---+41-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
for drawing,     |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
say              |42-+43-+44-+---+---+---+---+45-+---+---+---+---+46-+---+---|
18. Cherry       |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
picker's target  |47-+---+---+---+---+48-+49-+---+---+50-+---+51-+---+---+---|
20. Question of  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
risk assessment  |52-+---+---+---+---+53-+---+---+---+---+54-+---+55-+56-+57-|
21. Clinics may  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
send people to   |58-+---+---+---+59-+---+---+---+60-+---+61-+---+---+---+---|
them, briefly    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
22. Kin of a     |62-+---+---+---+63-+---+---+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---+---|
bay              |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
23. Kind of      |65-+---+---+---+66-+---+---+---+---+---+67-+---+---+---+---|
jack found on    |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
many TVs         +-----------------------------------------------------------+
25. Like some    
steps                     compact disc was          watch Don Draper and    
27. It's often used       demonstrated at its       Walter White            
through a window          founding event            28. Its main tenet      
30. They cause trouble    66. Word with secret or   translates to "do       
32. Responding to waves,  police                    nothing"                
maybe                     67. Hit unfairly          29. Cause of a rain     
33. Some sex symbols                                shadow: Abbr.           
37. Social media          DOWN                      31. Traditional name for
phenomenon in which a                               a Baltic native         
comment can be            1. Fish that can detect   34. [shrug] "Two out of 
misinterpreted because    ultrasound                five"                   
its audience cannot be    2. Classroom helper,      35. Be a sucker for,    
controlled                informally                with "on"               
41. "There should be no   3. Result of some loud    36. Major ending, often 
debate here"              crunching, for some       38. Its members are     
42. Home to a Great       4. One driven on a drive  concerned about lies    
Mosque since the year     5. Southern Alberta city  39. Raising an eyebrow, 
630, whose construction   named for an Indigenous   in slang                
is said to have been      healer's headdress        40. "I want that outta  
directed by Muhammad      6. "Rough"                here!"                  
45. They're set up        7. One testifying at a    42. Set framework       
around domes              murder trial, maybe       43. "Yes, that's it"    
46. "I have to _____"     8. "Freedom" in Swahili,  44. Ended up with       
47. Aid in smoothing a    from which a "Star Trek"  48. Wary response to a  
trunk                     character's name is       claim                   
50. Like some salary      derived                   49. Suspension of       
figures, for short        9. Large-scale vibrator?  everyday function, in a 
52. Something done in     10. Atlantic Standard     way                     
devotion to God           equivalent: Abbr.         51. The word "genie"    
53. One may be used for   11. 100 spoilers          comes from the Arabic   
dating                    12. Shrimp                word for it             
54. Monitors of           13. First name in the     55. Use as support      
monitors, sometimes       Guinness World Record     56. Per Robert Frost,   
58. "Oh... has it been    for Greatest Robbery of   it's "the place where,  
around?"                  a Government              when you have to go     
61. "Do you need me to    19. Namesake of a         there, they have to take
move?"                    special box in Moscow's   you in"                 
62. "I have to _____"     Bolshoi Theatre           57. Where to put a      
63. Quick to anger        24. Fire "helper"         meeting, informally     
64. [whistles casually    26. Space providing       59. What plans depend on
and avoids eye contact]   stability for liners      60. Shape with vertical 
65. The newly-invented    27. Where one could once  symmetry                

--- Binbrook, ON: Partly cloudy +22oC, UV Index: 1
 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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