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From : Northern Realms
Date : Fri Aug 15 2025 08:05:10

Freestyle 908 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9-----------10--11--12--13-+
                 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
1. Trashes       |14-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+15-+---+16-+---+---+---|
10. "Do you      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
really think     |17-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---|
I'm gonna go     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
through 'War     |19-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+21-+---+---+---+---|
and Peace' just  |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
to get my        |22-+---+---+---+---+23-+24-+25-+---+26-+---+---+27-+28-+29-|
answer?!"        |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
14. "Drop        |30-+---+---+31-+32-+---+33-+---+34-+---+35-+---+---+---+---|
everything       |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
else!"           |---+---+---+36-+---+37-+---+---+---+38-+---+---+---+---+---|
16. Motor named  |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
for the shape    |39-+40-+41-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
of its           |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
combustion       |42-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
chamber          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
17. "Can't stay  |43-+---+---+---+---+---+44-+---+---+---+45-+---+46-+47-+48-|
long... really   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
busy"            |49-+---+---+---+---+50-+---+51-+---+52-+---+---+53-+---+---|
18. "They're     |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
gonna need some  |---+---+---+54-+---+---+55-+---+---+56-+57-+58-+---+---+---|
good PR to get   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
outta that one"  |59-+60-+61-+---+---+62-+---+63-+64-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
19. Anchors for  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
scalers          |65-+---+---+---+---+66-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
20. They may be  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
measured down    |67-+---+---+---+---+---+68-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
to the second    |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
22. See 38-Down  +-----------------------------------------------------------+
23.              
Foreshadowing word,       67. Event that takes a    Narendra _____ Stadium, 
maybe                     lot of doing to pull      home to the 2023 Cricket
26. Daughter of Muhammad  off?                      World Cup final         
and Khadija whose         68. Cooks with two kinds  29. Certain society,    
birthday is celebrated    of heat, in a way         briefly                 
as Mother's Day in Iran                             31. Good way for teams  
30. Record label whose    DOWN                      to run                  
name was partially                                  32. Incapable of        
derived from a Middle     1. Not right-side-up      deception               
Eastern city              2. Streaming, say         34. Important food for  
33. Pitch nothing         3. Washington's busiest   reindeer                
35. Very attractive       airport, informally       37. Cry when Messi      
store sales, briefly      4. Not "dulce", as        scores                  
36. Modern grocery store  Spanish wine              38. Narrator of         
section                   5. Early test site?       22-Across' life in a    
39. "Just like I hoped    6. Familial nickname      classic musical         
wouldn't happen..."       7. Senators, on           39. One-sided?          
42. "Fancy seeing you!"   scoreboards               40. "I stepped in it"   
43. Unworthy of           8. It comes in "Spin",    41. Stuff that attracts 
employment?               "Flip", and "Stacko"      predators               
44. Certain bank deposit  versions                  46. Thought to be       
45. One may expound upon  9. Wear that's a country  47. Player of Ferrell's 
an opinion                minus its middle letter   and Heder's skating     
49. Lead-in to a polite   10. Seminal punk band     rival in "Blades of     
(...or maybe not so       whose 1973 album "Raw     Glory"                  
polite) restaurant        Power" was produced by    48. "America's Got      
request                   David Bowie               Talent" goals           
51. Cause of some         11. Company that founded  50. Dog shelter?        
collapses                 the fundraising campaign  52. Feature of most     
53. Preposition with      National Denim Day        carrots                 
several English           12. They're always        55. Look or sound       
homophones                private on social media,  57. "Marching _____     
54. Herbie Hancock        briefly                   Georgia" (Civil War-era 
quintet whose name came   13. "Good Girl Gone Bad"  song)                   
from a liquor bottle      album artist, to fans     58. Activity around a   
56. Daedalus was          15. Klingon promoted to   chair lift, maybe       
banished from it for      captain in the last       59. The FDA-approved    
throwing Talos off a      season of "Picard"        golden rice, e.g.       
cliff, in myth            21. Walker's avoidance,   60. One advancing a     
59. "I am awesome!"       maybe                     craft                   
62. They work best when   24. Win over with love    61. A head might be at  
given signals             25. Babe                  the top of one          
65. Manual log splitter   27. Classic literary      63. Unlikely setting for
66. Measure of how many   stock character with a    a gritty crime drama    
photos you don't toss     malformation              64. IV starter, maybe   
from your roll of film    28. India's eponymous   

--- Binbrook, ON: Mist +17oC, UV Index: 1
 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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