Subj : Yesterday's Crossword Solution
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Wed Aug 13 2025 08:05:42

Freestyle 904 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5---6---7-----------8---9---10--11--12--13-+
                 | A | L | A | B | A | M | A |]#[|]#[| A | D | A | P | T | S |
1. The "you" in  |14-+---+---+---+---+---+---+15-+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---|
the classic      | C | O | T | E | N | A | N | T |]#[| M | E | R | L | O | T |
song lyric "I'm  |17-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---|
coming home to   | U | V | T | A | T | T | O | O |]#[| M | E | T | E | O | R |
you"             |19-+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+21-+---+---+---+22-+---+---|
8. Moves to      | M | E | A | N | S |]#[| T | S | T | O | P |]#[| T | R | I |
plan B           |23-+---+---+---+---+---+24-+---+---+---+---+25-+---+---+---|
14. One living   | E | T | C |]#[|]#[|]#[| H | A | H |]#[|]#[| S | H | I | P |
upstairs from    |26-+---+---+27-+28-+---+29-+---+---+30-+---+31-+---+---+---|
you, say         | N | O | K | I | A |]#[| E | Y | E | S |]#[| H | O | S | E |
16. Beverage     |---+---+---+32-+---+33-+---+---+---+---+34-+---+---+---+---|
from the French  |]#[|]#[|]#[| S | M | A | R | T | R | E | M | A | R | K | S |
for "little      |---+35-+36-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
blackbird", due  |]#[| H | O | W | I | S | T | H | A | T | O | K | A | Y |]#[|
to its color     |37-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
17. Design that  | R | I | D | E | S | T | H | E | P | I | N | E |]#[|]#[|]#[|
may become       |38-+---+---+---+---+39-+---+---+---+---+40-+---+41-+42-+43-|
visible when     | A | R | I | A |]#[| O | I | L | Y |]#[| T | R | U | S | S |
dancing at a     |44-+---+---+---+---+---+45-+---+---+---+---+---+46-+---+---|
nightclub        | V | E | E | R |]#[|]#[| N | E | G |]#[|]#[|]#[| T | I | L |
18. What a       |47-+---+---+---+48-+49-+---+---+---+---+50-+51-+---+---+---|
neutral fan      | E | D | T |]#[| E | L | G | A | R |]#[| A | L | A | M | O |
might            |52-+---+---+53-+---+---+---+54-+---+55-+---+---+---+---+---|
facetiously say  | U | G | A | N | D | A |]#[| S | O | A | N | Y | H | O | W |
they'll root     |56-+---+---+---+---+---+---+57-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
for when two     | P | U | M | P | I | N |]#[| T | U | R | N | L | A | N | E |
undesirable      |58-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+59-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
teams play in a  | S | N | O | R | T | S |]#[|]#[| P | R | E | E | N | E | D |
big game         +-----------------------------------------------------------+
19. Instrument   
to achieve a purpose      June                      25. One might help you  
20. Hockey player's       50. Airport company to    get more seasoning      
braking method            remember?                 27. "Believe me..."     
22. _____-axle (truck     52. Nation through which  28. "Camarades"         
type)                     the equator passes        30. It's seeking signs  
23. "I don't want to go   54. "Well, as we were     from the universe,      
on"                       saying..."                briefly                 
24. "That's child's       56. Add under pressure    33. Memo preposition    
play!"                    57. Many rights may come  34. _____ de Venus (part
25. Certain cruiser       from it                   of "l'anatomie          
26. Finnish corporate     58. Says "Yeah, sure,"    feminine")              
giant that started as a   maybe                     35. Figure in the       
paper mill in the 1860s   59. Worked the bugs out,  offing?                 
29. Ones to watch?        say                       36. Famed Catullus      
31. What you might find                             couplet expressing      
nude at a clothes store?  DOWN                      conflicting feelings    
32. Cracks                                          about his lover, meaning
35. "The things some      1. Sharp sense            "I hate and I love"     
people let happen these   2. "Yeah, sure!"          37. Wild parties, in    
days..."                  3. Ad hominem comment,    British slang           
37. Sits out from a       e.g.                      41. Neighbor of Zion    
game, in sports lingo     4. Burger option          42. Big first name at   
38. Option for showing    5. Players from the       the Beijing and Tokyo   
off pipes?                upper deck?               Summer Olympics         
39. Not affording much    6. Something set beneath  43. Reacted to radar, in
traction                  rings                     a way                   
40. Bridge engineer's     7. "To add..."            48. Wikipedia page link 
design                    8. Bad thing for          49. Some IT setups      
44. Go off without        political candidates to   50. She was infamously  
warning                   give their opponents      nicknamed "her royal    
45. Rate one star on      9. Far to the floor       rudeness"               
Yelp, say, in slang       10. Activity for some     51. _____ Mays, 11-time 
46. "That's some new      21-Downs                  Grammy-winning jazz     
knowledge for me,"        11. Slew                  piano virtuoso          
online                    12. "Nah, not worth it"   53. On which David      
47. What ends with a      13. Features of some      Sedaris traditionally   
"fall back" in New York,  Easter eggs               reads his essay         
for short                 15. "...and that's even   "Santaland Diaries"     
48. Composer whose "Land  selling it short!"        annually                
of Hope and Glory" march  21. Unit for finding      55. Plunderer's cry     
is often performed under  shared experiences,     
another name in May and   often                   

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