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Date : Sat Aug 02 2025 08:05:08

Freestyle 894 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

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ACROSS                    cooked in them            the ax quite frequently 
                          66. Dropped the bottom    at Pencey"              
1. People often look for  of?                       31. Require an apology, 
action in it                                        maybe                   
8. Old people-powered     DOWN                      32. 42.8% winning       
rail vehicles                                       percentage,             
16. "Tevye and His        1. Where you can find     approximately?          
Daughters" author         your material             34. Innocent type       
18. "Loud and clear"      2. Who can be called on   35. "You're going too   
19. Activity in which     for a reference           slow!"                  
one poses with bottles?   3. Tears up, to say the   36. Stuffed a dumpling, 
20. "No need for outside  least                     say                     
professional help"        4. Prickly thing that's   37. See 5-Down          
principle                 a homophone of a soft     38. Button for a deli   
21. What you shouldn't    thing                     worker                  
buy after: Abbr.          5. Like relations that    39. It was once         
22. Story that just       need to 37-Down           distributed with the    
won't go away             6. What the Phillies'     brand name Delysid      
24. Heroine in Amazon     and Pirates' logos        40. It gets rolled in   
Prime's "Citadel"         resemble                  pairs                   
25. It'll get you         7. One of many used to    41. The US Department of
looking great             construct Stonehenge      Justice blocked AT&T    
28. Preservation aids     8. Brick and mortar       from buying it in 2011  
30. Shape formed by       carrier                   46. Something to use for
doves, but not by hawks?  9. Like some people who   the stage               
33. "Not so random,       can't legally marry       47. Redford's hiking    
huh?"                     10. Quebec-based          companion in "A Walk in 
39. "Details,             drinking water brand      the Woods", 2015        
schmetails"               11. Out of the natural    48. Rate                
42. What a victim of      shade?                    50. "Like...?"          
injustice might be        12. Major competitor of   51. They may investigate
looking to get, at the    BofA                      unusual banking         
very least                13. "Me too"              activity, briefly       
43. Pro _____ et patria   14. Store whose shoppers  52. Where the peace     
(common motto)            might end up with an in-  agreement ending the War
44. Car-go hold?          tents experience?         in Afghanistan was      
45. Pulls away            15. What a slight hand    signed                  
eventually?               movement indicates,       53. Needing a           
49. Many are named for    informally                comeuppance, say        
the lead                  17. Gift for producing    55. Org. that runs      
54. Shout before a break  illusions                 ready.gov               
56. Reduce the length of  23. Not bumbling over,    57. You can finally get 
57. "C'mon, that ain't    to say the least          your share in it,       
so bad!" comeback         26. One of many on the    briefly                 
60. Fabric that can       border: Abbr.             58. Good, to 16-Across  
sense body temperature,   27. Tropical              59. TV producers'       
movement, etc.            transplanted arabica      products, informally    
63. Make minor edits to,  variety                   61. Indicate as one's   
say                       29. Author whose          choice                  
64. Reflect deeply        character said, "I got    62. Aid for some demos  
65. Turkeys may be        the ax. They give guys  

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