Subj : Daily Crossword
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Wed Jul 30 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 891 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3-----------4---5---6---7---8---9---10--11--12--13-+
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1. Initials      |14-+---+---+15-+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
shared by an     |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
auto product     |17-+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
and a '90s alt   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
rock band        |19-+---+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---|
4. Alliterative  |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
ride made in     |22-+---+---+---+23-+---+24-+---+---+---+---+25-+---+---+---|
Hiroshima        |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
14. "Really,     |26-+---+---+---+27-+28-+---+---+---+29-+---+30-+---+---+---|
really           |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
interesting!"    |31-+---+---+32-+---+---+---+---+33-+---+34-+---+---+---+---|
16. "You're      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
bothering me"    |35-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+36-+---+---+37-+38-+39-|
17. God who      |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
tried to shape-  |---+---+---+40-+---+---+41-+---+42-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
shift into a     |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
salmon and hide  |43-+44-+45-+---+---+46-+---+47-+---+---+---+---+48-+---+---|
in a waterfall   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
to escape the    |49-+---+---+---+---+---+50-+---+---+---+51-+52-+---+---+---|
wrath of fellow  |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
gods (it didn't  |53-+---+---+---+---+54-+---+---+---+---+---+55-+---+---+---|
work)            |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
18. Musical      |56-+---+---+57-+58-+---+---+---+59-+60-+---+61-+---+---+---|
category for     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
Billie Eilish    |62-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+63-+---+---+---|
and Lana Del     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
Rey, as some     |64-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+65-+---+---|
call it          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
19. Let go       +-----------------------------------------------------------+
20. Basically    
don't ever lose to        spoon, but not knife      international passenger 
21. Stock serving in      55. Real dunderhead, in   nos.                    
Southeast Asia?           slang                     25. _____ d'armes       
22. What some long shots  56. "You're a little      (fellow soldier, in     
are for                   young to be messing       French)                 
24. Skips are played in   around like that..."      28. Instrumental        
it                        61. Long fossil           command?                
25. Outsized styles,      discovery, perhaps        29. Flavorsome          
informally                62. Minute, say           32. Edge of Siberia     
26. What you might do to  63. One may make a        34. Aron's brother in   
someone blind             decision                  "East of Eden"          
27. Hats worn by some     64. Hold to               37. Like the flags of 22
military and marching     65. Online shares, as     European countries      
band members              they were once called     38. "You can take your  
30. It's the same thing                             time"                   
over and over             DOWN                      39. Site whose users    
31. "See ya... wouldn't                             often offer stark views?
wanna be ya!"             1. You don't travel with  41. Nondairy ice cream  
33. Fish whose name can   anyone on it              brand originally        
be played on a piano?     2. Cleared                marketed as a kosher    
35. What might get        3. Form of cheating used  treat for Orthodox      
occupied with a maze at   by an online casino host  Jewish customers        
home                      4. They chase those who   42. Insurance giant     
36. Designation for many  go off base, for short    whose New York Stock    
a mini golf hole          5. Made like              Exchange symbol is its  
40. Uninspiring response  6. Hybrid "half-assed"    name                    
to "Did you have fun?"    equine with a             43. Formulate           
42. One may help start a  portmanteau name          44. Itinerant ethnic    
bank                      7. "Comically" large      group of Bizet's        
43. "Jacques _____ et     sandwich                  operatic heroine Carmen 
ses chansons" (1954       8. "More                  45. Add to the picture  
debut album)              specifically...?"         47. Child star who said 
46. Not ignoring          9. What "un fleuve"       the movie line, "I made 
building standards        leads to                  my family disappear!"   
48. Not on the computer,  10. You'd be hard-        52. Elementary subj.    
briefly                   pressed to walk away      54. Sports group behind 
49. Hot things that       from one: Abbr.           the much-derided 2014   
drag?                     11. One at the top level  film "United Passions"  
50. "The one thing that   of service, briefly?      57. Transportation org. 
money can't buy", per     12. Not cool enough       after which the         
the Beatles' "She's       13. Set next to           "Saturday in the Park"  
Leaving Home"             15. "Don't spoil the      band was once named     
51. "Full House" aunt     surprise"                 58. One who doesn't give
53. _____ Classics        23. Started doing         59. Email chain         
(Warner Music Group       business, briefly         alternative             
division)                 24. Home to the world's   60. Print seeker, maybe:
54. It can end fork or    busiest airport by        Abbr.                   

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