Subj : Yesterday's Crossword Solution
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Mon Jul 28 2025 08:05:16

Freestyle 888 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5-----------6---7---8---9-------10--11--12-+
                 | T | H | A | W | S |]#[|]#[| W | E | S | T |]#[| G | A | B |
1. Liquidates?   |13-+---+---+---+---+---+14-+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---|
6. Venusian      | V | E | D | I | C |]#[| H | O | T | C | O | L | O | R | S |
sunrise setting  |16-+---+---+---+---+---+17-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
10. Flap         | N | A | D | I | A |]#[| A | N | D | I | Q | U | O | T | E |
without a stop   |18-+---+---+---+19-+20-+---+---+21-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
13. Relating to  | E | R | S |]#[| N | C | R |]#[| S | O | U | N | D | E | D |
classical        |22-+---+---+---+---+23-+---+24-+---+25-+---+---+---+---+---|
Hinduism         | W | I | T |]#[|]#[| A | D | P |]#[| N | E | A | L |]#[|]#[|
14. Very         |26-+---+---+27-+---+28-+---+---+29-+---+---+30-+---+31-+32-|
vibrant shades   | S | T | O | W |]#[| S | A | R | I |]#[|]#[| R | E | O | S |
16. Big name at  |---+---+---+33-+34-+---+---+---+---+35-+36-+---+---+---+---|
the 1976 Summer  |]#[|]#[|]#[| H | O | S | P | I | T | A | L | B | A | L | L |
Olympics         |37-+38-+39-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
17. "This is     | V | O | R | A | C | I | O | U | S | R | E | A | D | E | R |
definitely what  |40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
I heard..."      | E | J | E | C | T | O | R | S | E | A | T | S |]#[|]#[|]#[|
18. "I swear, I  |41-+---+---+---+---+---+42-+---+---+---+---+43-+44-+45-+46-|
don't know how   | E | S | T | A |]#[|]#[| T | E | A | R |]#[| E | W | E | S |
it got there"    |---+---+47-+---+48-+49-+---+50-+---+---+---+---+51-+---+---|
spots, for       |]#[|]#[| A | M | I | D |]#[| S | S | A |]#[|]#[| H | A | T |
short            |52-+53-+---+---+---+---+54-+---+55-+---+56-+---+57-+---+---|
19. Big self-    | O | R | I | O | L | E | S |]#[| Y | T | D |]#[| A | T | E |
checkout         |58-+---+---+---+---+---+---+59-+---+---+60-+61-+---+---+---|
station maker    | H | E | L | L | O | M | O | T | O |]#[| O | N | T | O | P |
21. Went         |62-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+63-+---+---+---+---|
"hmmm", say      | S | T | E | E | L | M | A | R | K |]#[| M | A | N | U | P |
22. It's         |64-+---+---+---+65-+---+---+---+---+---+66-+---+---+---+---|
difficult to     | O | D | D |]#[| D | E | K | E |]#[|]#[| S | M | O | T | E |
respond to a     +-----------------------------------------------------------+
quick one        
23. Initials found on     a lacrosse game           that ends up getting you
many paychecks            64. "Can't figure it      nowhere, metaphorically 
25. Richard _____, US     out"                      29. "You'll have no     
congressman representing  65. Get to skate the      trouble if you just pay 
Massachusetts             wrong way, maybe          attention to me..."     
26. Put out of reach,     66. Felled like David     31. Recognition of a    
maybe                     did                       great feat of dribbling 
28. Attire for one with                             32. Digital _____       
a bindi, maybe            DOWN                      34. Setting for a       
30. Olds-made wheels of                             Russian "Revolution":   
old                       1. On which one rarely    Abbr.                   
33. Pass thrown by a      sees anchor legs?         35. Dormant volcanic    
quarterback that makes    2. "Shhh... did you       peak in northwestern    
the receiver vulnerable   catch that?"              Asia                    
to a brutal hit, in       3. Builds on              36. Not stand in the way
slang                     4. Sports or U preceder   of                      
37. Novel consumer, say   5. Work on the feet of    37. Crotch form         
40. They may toss out     6. Finished 60-Across     38. Bright glasses,     
flyers                    7. Pushback stats         briefly                 
41. "Donde" follower,     8. Onetime maker of the   39. Offered publicly    
often                     xA, xB, and xD            44. Clumsy response     
42. State in which you    9. Something found        denying an accusation   
can't be stopped          around the head of a      45. Take advantage of   
43. Some stock for        kitchen?                  another range?          
husbandry                 10. One may help to       46. Prairielike land    
47. In the context of     break open a case         48. "Yeah, that was     
50. Org. benefiting       11. Nome d'_____          funny", online          
53-Down people            (Italian "stage name")    49. "Married to the Mob"
51. Hider of dos          12. Wanted to appear      director, 1988          
52. Team whose fans       smart, maybe              52. Adverb often said   
shout their team's first  14. Nautical command to   sarcastically           
letter during the "Star   swerve the wheel left     53. Answering to no one,
Spangled Banner"          15. Space living space    say, briefly            
55. Initials found on     20. Iago stabs him, but   54. Get into some suds  
many paychecks            doesn't kill him (and,    56. They may have you in
57. Took stock in, say    as far as we know, he is  chains                  
58. Old mobile phone      not the inspiration for   59. Second "numero      
catchphrase               naming a calculator       primo"                  
60. See 6-Down            company)                  61. Subject of some Ali 
62. Feature of a famed    24. Common victims of     quips, informally       
Pittsburgh logo           rolling coal            
63. 10-on-9 situation in  27. Boring, hard work   

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