Subj : Daily Crossword
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Mon Aug 04 2025 08:05:16

Freestyle 896 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5---6---7-----------8---9---10--11--12--13-+
                 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
1. :-0           |14-+---+---+---+---+---+---+15-+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---|
8. Big places    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
for rockers      |17-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---|
14. Either of    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
two cards        |19-+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+21-+---+22-+---+---+---+---|
nicknamed "Red   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
Balloons" in     |---+---+---+23-+---+---+---+---+---+24-+---+25-+---+---+---|
poker,           |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
informally       |26-+27-+28-+---+---+---+---+29-+---+---+30-+---+31-+---+---|
16. Facial       |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
cleanser         |32-+---+---+---+33-+34-+35-+---+---+---+---+36-+---+---+---|
ingredients      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|
17. Absolute     |37-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+38-+39-|
best             |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
18. Hall         |---+---+40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
dedicatees,      |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
often            |41-+42-+---+---+43-+---+---+---+---+---+---+44-+---+---+---|
19. Bad thing    |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
to speed         |45-+---+---+46-+---+47-+---+---+48-+49-+50-+---+---+---+---|
through          |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
20. US company   |51-+---+---+---+52-+---+53-+---+---+---+---+---+54-+55-+56-|
whose first two  |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
letters stands   |57-+---+---+---+---+58-+---+59-+---+---+---+60-+---+---+---|
for the metal    |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
it produces      |61-+---+---+---+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
22. Plant with   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
good security    |63-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
23. Plant parts  |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
attached to      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
filaments        
25. Part of many old      63. Big "Mac" style?      30. Argentina's _____ de
German duchy names,       64. One fired on a        los Estados             
referring to the people   feeling?                  33. Go poorly for       
who once lived there                                investors               
26. Comedic movie         DOWN                      34. Like one's child,   
character who asked,                                maybe?                  
"What hump?"              1. Way back               35. Genre interrelated  
29. Place where           2. Group that may         with glam rock          
thickness is important    include deserters, for    36. Name often seen in  
31. Some of them are      short                     graduation orchestra    
curbed: Abbr.             3. Pass fails, briefly    pits                    
32. Like some ailments    4. Some jet engines and   38. Modern update, at   
you can't get a           ranges                    the start               
prescription for          5. Turkish sultan who     39. A hidden one is     
37. "10 Things I Hate     founded a major empire    always worth finding    
About You", vis-a-vis     6. Matzoh may be made     41. Its name in         
"The Taming of the        from it                   Afrikaans is            
Shrew"                    7. Cheap sauce            "skaapkameel", meaning  
40. Less-than-            8. Region including       "sheep camel"           
enthusiastic concurrence  Namibia, Rwanda,          42. Frame protecting the
41. I can't take it!      Tanzania, and Ghana,      front of a car, in      
43. Gives a boost, with   among others: Abbr.       Aussie lingo            
"up"                      9. Health "leader"        46. One may be in a big 
44. Bit part?             10. Plants often called   boy bed                 
45. Somewhere you don't   "lilies" that aren't      48. Kiddies, to gramps  
know                      true lilies               and granny              
47. Like a sorority       11. Thick-skulled         49. Out line            
party, compared to a      12. Objection to a        50. Complete a point-of-
wine-and-cheese           cutter                    sale transaction, in a  
reception                 13. Things not meant for  way                     
51. Adopted a stance?     fellow characters         52. Hollow out in the   
53. They're definitely    15. Good there's some     sticks                  
not prosaic               bad to                    54. Quick-scroll key    
54. Its members           21. "Please say that's    55. Some masculine-     
definitely don't need     right about me...?"       appearing lesbians      
bumpers                   23. Asked to walk, maybe  56. It shows you're part
57. Places to sleep,      24. Plants used in        of the deal             
often                     making both shillelaghs   58. Ensure (that)       
59. Showing no sign of    and alcoholic drinks      60. Subj. of the 2014   
slowing down              26. Bloc holding,         nonfiction Glenn        
61. Lighter target        informally                Greenwood book "No Place
62. Swimmer's training    27. _____-blocking        to Hide"                
wear                      28. 1960s charter       

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