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From : Northern Realms
Date : Sat Jul 26 2025 08:05:10

Freestyle 887 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3-------4---5---6---7---8---9---10--11--12--13--14-+
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1. Monitored     |15-+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
things at work?  |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
4. Complete      |17-+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
idiot, from      |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Yiddish          |19-+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---+---+---|
15. It may be    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|
in the middle    |22-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+23-+---+---+---+24-|
of "une          |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
cuisine"         |25-+---+---+---+---+---+26-+27-+28-+29-+---+30-+---+---+---|
16. Feeling      |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
nice             |31-+---+---+---+32-+33-+---+---+---+---+34-+---+35-+---+---|
17. Kind of      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
criminal         |---+---+---+36-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+37-+---+---+---|
screen,          |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
informally       |38-+39-+40-+---+41-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+42-+43-+44-|
18. Showers      |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
from above       |45-+---+---+46-+---+47-+---+---+---+---+---+48-+---+---+---|
19. Old pirate   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
raiding ships    |49-+---+---+---+50-+---+---+---+---+51-+52-+---+---+---+---|
at war with      |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
France           |---+53-+---+---+---+54-+---+---+55-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
21. Something    |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
to unsubscribe   |56-+---+---+---+---+---+57-+58-+---+---+---+---+59-+---+---|
from             |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
22. Alternate    |60-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+61-+---+---|
moniker          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
23. Evaluations  |62-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+63-+---+---|
of case          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
studies,         +-----------------------------------------------------------+
briefly          
25. How hard a pitcher    62. Point on a timeline,  32. Malibu stuff        
throws, in baseball       essentially               33. TV boy aptly        
lingo                     63. Earth orbiter since   mentioned in the Nirvana
26. "Things were better   1998: Abbr.               song "Floyd the Barber" 
in my day" type                                     34. Fish that's a male  
30. TV character whose    DOWN                      nickname when pronounced
two brothers' names each                            differently             
rhyme with his            1. Natural vertical       37. Cary's costar in    
31. Stud that moves if    shaft                     "Mr. Blandings Builds   
you squint                2. Actor who cofounded    His Dream House", 1948  
35. Offerer of biting     the Casamigos tequila     38. Historical figure   
commentary, briefly       company                   whom modern scientists  
36. Power with many       3. What a girl or a guy   have determined most    
stars                     traditionally does        likely actually had     
38. They're not good      4. Start to clean, in a   Guillain-Barre syndrome,
when they hit posts:      way                       for short               
Abbr.                     5. Spot to grab bags      39. Inappropriate for   
41. Bombing candidate     6. Who picks up where     kids, in a way          
45. There's no decision   someone leaves things     40. It's called a spear 
in one                    off?                      when it grows no arms   
47. Good place to search  7. Occupy                 42. "OK, so this is good
for a patchwork           8. Two-turn form          to know..."             
48. Either of two         9. Like some body         43. People stand against
combined to make the      doubles                   them                    
Bluetooth symbol          10. Quaintly funny        44. Jerry, Elaine, and  
49. Threw stuff all over  11. Rather unpolished     Kramer on "Seinfeld",   
the place, say            12. Erstwhile ruler also  e.g.                    
51. Chris who hosted "To  known as King Abdulaziz   46. Visited             
Catch a Predator"         13. Stopped the bleeding  50. Special place?      
53. Ancient               14. He's come in a box    51. Combatted           
Mediterranean language    since 1961                52. Total jerk, in slang
55. Honorable title       20. Unlikely soup         54. Trendy thing to cut 
translating to "great     kitchen volunteers        55. First name of the   
spirit"                   24. One to operate on,    mustachioed model in    
56. Subject of much       for short                 Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q."  
important advice          26. Didn't let go, with   56. Razor alternative   
59. One on a perch        "on"                      57. "I'm your coworker, 
60. Part of a "sterile    27. Source of an oil      not your urologist"     
area"                     used in skin lotions      58. Bad ear material?   
61. "...but maybe it's    28. Cute little number  
coming"                   29. First for service   

--- Binbrook, ON: Partly cloudy +18oC, UV Index: 1
 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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