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From : Northern Realms
Date : Mon Aug 25 2025 08:05:10

Freestyle 918 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4-------5---6---7---8-------9---10--11--12--13-+
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1. Not an        |14-+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---+---|
exception        |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
5. Movement      |17-+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+19-+---+---+---+---+---|
around a         |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
volcano,         |20-+---+---+---+21-+---+---+22-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
perhaps          |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|
9. Point at      |23-+---+---+---+---+24-+25-+---+---+26-+---+---+---+27-+28-|
which one can    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
be bribed        |29-+---+---+---+30-+---+---+31-+32-+---+---+---+33-+---+---|
14. Where the    |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
old man lives,   |---+---+---+34-+---+---+---+---+---+---+35-+36-+---+---+---|
in the Jax hit   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
"Victoria's      |37-+38-+39-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
Secret"          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
15. Knowing,     |40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
unlike most      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
others           |41-+---+---+---+---+42-+---+---+---+---+---+---+43-+44-+45-|
16. On the       |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
fringes          |46-+---+---+47-+48-+---+---+---+49-+---+---+50-+---+---+---|
17. Some game    |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
show             |---+---+51-+---+---+---+52-+53-+---+---+54-+---+---+---+---|
contestants      |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
match them       |55-+56-+---+---+---+---+---+---+57-+58-+---+59-+---+---+---|
18. Device in a  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
pinball machine  |60-+---+---+---+---+---+61-+---+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---|
20. Make turn    |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
red              |63-+---+---+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---+---+65-+---+---+---|
22. It might     |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
turn red         +-----------------------------------------------------------+
23. "Curious"    
26. Overwatch or Super                              32. "Such a friggin'    
Smash Bros.,              DOWN                      blast!"                 
professionally                                      34. Abbreviated name in 
29. Important fig. for    1. Late-1970s musical     many old signatures     
some Uber drivers         genre that was a          35. Through whom a deity
30. Propeller holder,     rejection (and a play on  communicates            
maybe                     words) of a then-popular  36. "It does exactly    
33. Acknowledgement of    musical style             what it says on the     
higher rank, maybe        2. "That definitely       _____" (classic British 
34. Baked steak side, to  sounds right"             slogan)                 
a Brit                    3. Slowing, on music      37. Get not to maul     
37. "We've almost made    sheets                    anyone, say             
it to the end of the      4. Naturally carpeted,    38. Kind of cavity in   
week"                     in a way                  which you may find a    
40. Kind of logic that    5. Something to be        cavity                  
makes heavy use of        driven home with, maybe   39. Faucet whose        
simple syllogisms         6. Sports jersey, in      temperature is          
41. Ceiling               slang                     controlled by one valve,
42. 2008 John Cusack      7. Go absolutely nowhere  rather than separate hot
movie satirizing the      8. Like those pushing     and cold valves         
military-industrial       back                      43. Distilled product   
complex                   9. They may be written    used to seal some       
43. Some school markers,  to court                  shingle roofs           
briefly                   10. Bring to the top of   44. No different        
46. When to deliver the   a pole                    whatever the choice     
news, maybe               11. "Shame"               45. One working with a  
49. Something that's      12. All-hands meeting     certain craft           
full of tea?              caller, maybe             47. Italian brand that's
51. A flipped card may    13. Wish something        also the first five     
prompt one                undone, say               letters of a Roman      
54. Bad way for an alarm  19. Big ticket item?      Emperor                 
to sound                  21. Southernmost state    48. Some of them get    
55. Just watches          capital of Australia      struck out              
59. What a hot dish       24. Removed the top of,   50. One of many used to 
might burn                as a pineapple            make silk               
60. Respond to a change   25. Midwestern people     52. Old equivalent to a 
in strategy               whose name becomes        deep sigh               
61. What was once big on  another Midwestern        53. Company that sounds 
"Soul Train"?             people when its first     like what 57-Downs do   
62. Cab, say              letter is changed to L    55. Confidence game     
63. Many diaper changers  27. Singer and wife of    loser                   
64. Very avid             Bob Marley                56. Home to part of     
Potterhead, e.g.          28. City associated with  Hells Canyon Wilderness:
65. He had lots of        Paris                     Abbr.                   
answers to be questioned  31. Like an updated       57. See 53-Down         
on TV                     version                   58. Way away, long ago  

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