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From : Northern Realms
Date : Thu Aug 21 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 914 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

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1. "OK, now      |13-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+14-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
tell me what     |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
REALLY           |15-+---+---+---+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
happened"        |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
7. Evidence of   |17-+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---+19-+---+---|
a difference in  |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
opinion          |20-+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---+---+22-+23-+---+---+---|
13. Wild equine  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
that's an        |24-+---+---+---+25-+---+---+---+26-+---+27-+---+---+---+---|
anagram of a     |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|
popular fruit    |28-+---+---+29-+---+---+---+---+---+30-+---+---+---+---+---|
14. "Hey, I did  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
NOT need to      |---+31-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+32-+33-+---|
hear that!"      |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|
15. You might    |---+---+---+34-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+35-|
get tips for     |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
good service in  |---+36-+37-+---+---+---+38-+---+---+---+---+---+39-+---+---|
it               |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
16. Really top-  |40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+41-+---+---+---+42-+---+---+---|
shelf stuff      |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
17. Picture-     |43-+---+---+---+---+44-+45-+---+---+---+46-+---+---+---+---|
hosting website  |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
once very        |47-+---+---+48-+49-+---+---+---+---+50-+---+---+---+---+---|
popular for      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
Reddit posts     |51-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+52-+---+---+---+---+---|
18. One might    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
offer a bold     |53-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+54-+---+---+---+---+---|
choice           |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
19. Account      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
used to prevent  
doxxing, maybe            animals native to South   25. Chapter one almost  
20. What to do with eggs  America                   always starts on them   
or rings                  51. "You can get that     26. Not forced, as a    
21. Who "became           in"                       process                 
operational... on the     52. Serengeti shade tree  29. They're tossed and  
12th of January 1992",    53. Doesn't stop          turned in beds          
in film                   54. Rock song title       30. "Der Panther" poet, 
22. Beds for some         character who "spoke in   1903                    
courses                   class today"              32. Formally informed   
24. End of "corazon"                                33. What may be found   
25. One you just don't    DOWN                      around a door           
know                                                35. Saw introduction    
27. Across the country,   1. One moving very fast   36. Wasn't even with    
say                       2. Sea creatures with a   37. Part of a broken    
28. Protein-making        tongue-twisting name      43-Across, maybe        
component                 3. Time to chill with     40. Author who wrote,   
31. "Surprise,            the pals, casually        "His mother was ugly and
surprise..."              4. Lamb, in a Latin Mass  his father was ugly, but
34. "Actually, you're     5. Whom the fortune       Shrek was uglier than   
wrong"                    eventually favors?        the two of them put     
36. Home to the oldest    6. Deterrence center      together"               
skiing museum in the      7. Small belt             42. Like stocks whose   
world                     8. Animal mentioned in    prices are determined   
38. Lean without much     Massachusetts' official   purely by supply and    
grace                     state song                demand                  
39. Negative-sounding     9. Brings into the world  44. One may fill up with
drama?                    10. Island of Homeric     gas                     
40. Slice full of holes   literature                45. You might make one  
41. Hand over in          11. One obviously         to win a job: Abbr.     
Aberdeen                  tickled                   46. Figure in the       
42. Where a guitarist     12. Receivers of sliders  running?                
puts a finger, to a       14. Didn't fall           48. Tiger Woods broke   
physicist                 16. Common choice for     his record for most     
43. See 37-Down           falconers                 career weeks ranked     
44. "Sporty" 1990s pop    18. Totally obsessed      world top-10            
singer                    type                      49. One might have to   
46. Place to go before    21. Sullenberger's film   give stock answers      
you go, often             portrayer                 50. Hard Rock Hotel &   
47. Event that's often    22. How something         Casino Atlantic City,   
hard for a design         offensive can smell       once, with "The"        
engineer to anticipate    23. "...assuming there's
50. Largest wild land     at least one"           

--- Binbrook, ON: Partly cloudy +17oC, UV Index: 0
 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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