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From : Northern Realms
Date : Sun Aug 03 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 895 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5-------6---7---8---9-----------10--11--12-+
                 |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
1. Predecessor   |13-+---+---+---+---+---+14-+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---|
of FaceTime      |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
6. Some get it   |16-+---+---+---+---+---+17-+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---|
from whispering  |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
10. Tight        |---+19-+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---+---|
wrapper          |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
13. Descendants  |---+22-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
of his ship's    |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
mutineers make   |23-+---+---+---+24-+---+---+---+25-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
up most of       |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
Pitcairn         |26-+---+---+27-+---+---+---+28-+---+---+---+29-+30-+31-+32-|
Island's         |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
population       |33-+---+---+---+---+34-+35-+---+---+---+---+36-+---+---+---|
14. Anti-piracy  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
org. that        |37-+---+---+---+---+38-+---+---+---+---+---+39-+---+---+---|
dropped the      |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
last letter      |---+---+---+40-+41-+---+---+---+42-+43-+44-+---+45-+---+---|
from its name    |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
in 2019          |46-+47-+48-+---+---+---+---+49-+---+---+---+50-+---+---+---|
15. "That's my   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|
feeling too",    |51-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
perhaps          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|
16. With         |52-+---+---+---+---+53-+---+---+---+---+54-+---+---+---+55-|
61-Across, some  |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
helicopter       |56-+---+---+---+---+57-+---+---+---+---+58-+---+---+---+---|
producers        |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
17. Order at     |59-+---+---+---+---+60-+---+---+---+---+61-+---+---+---+---|
Oktoberfest,     |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
maybe            +-----------------------------------------------------------+
18. Special      
spans                     their contents            12. A flyer may sit on  
19. "You can't let only   52. Charitable blowout,   it                      
your neighbor see what    maybe                     15. People in the mail, 
you had", in poker        53. Color akin to         say                     
22. Ironic thing to say   chartreuse                20. Thing you don't want
before a struggle         54. Swiftly, maybe?       to "catch a crab" with  
23. Good quality for a    56. Not in a while        21. Needing to get more 
motivational speaker      57. It moves as a unit    regular, maybe          
24. Di buon'_____         58. Any of a book's       23. Subjects of some    
(Italian for "early in    odds?                     insurance policies      
the day")                 59. A Skywalker           27. Nip in the bed?     
25. Great things to       60. They usually take     28. It expanded into St.
"peel off" on the felt    checks                    Louis in 2023           
26. Whence the Tigris     61. See 16-Across         30. "No smartass        
and Euphrates, some say                             remarks... promise"     
28. Whose most famous     DOWN                      31. Real name of the    
catchphrase was written                             public Chicago sculpture
by Sylvester Stallone     1. Holder of the most     nicknamed "The Bean"    
29. "So badass!"          overall patents issued    32. Founder of          
33. Many teethers,        by the United States      "transcendental         
essentially               Patent and Trademark      idealism"               
34. Sonoran Desert        Office                    34. Z successor,        
reptiles                  2. Fought about           informally              
36. Vampish secretary in  3. Work whose words are   35. "Such a nice        
"The Producers"           rapped                    gesture"                
37. Get caught up         4. Like tots' eyes in a   41. Kona Coast catch    
38. Subjects of many      classic holiday song      42. More after more     
conspiracy theories,      5. Direct inspiration     43. Challenge for a     
briefly                   for Paul McCartney's      folder?                 
39. Boring first name?    writing of "Helter        44. Not 100%            
40. Icelandic guide       Skelter"                  46. Anesthesiologist    
accompanying the two      6. Bigwig in Egyptian     with an eponymous health
explorers in Jules        myth                      score                   
Verne's "Journey to the   7. Got on the inside of,  47. What there may be a 
Center of the Earth"      say                       penalty for breaking    
42. Something you don't   8. Kin of "guyliner"      48. Dental cavity       
want your psychiatrist    9. Things done without    filling option          
to say to you             much forethought          49. A game show         
45. Linker of two         10. Movie character       contestant might be     
opposing viewpoints       who's asked, "Why don't   holding one             
46. "Not what you were    you do something useful   50. Charitable type     
used to anymore..."       and dig your mother a     55. They're turning down
51. Mindless approval of  grave?"                 
forms without reading     11. Choice for a brush  

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