Subj : Yesterday's Crossword Solution
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Sat Jul 12 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 872 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

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ACROSS                    not like something?       heart like one should?  
                          52. Poker tournaments     22. Hundredth parts of  
1. Former longtime US     with no entry fee         dashes, maybe, as some  
representative Fred       57. Couldn't stop         would write             
whose niece is a          winning, in gambling      24. On-demand obviates  
supermodel                lingo                     it                      
6. Like much of the       58. What magicians may    25. Story teller        
audience of the           do with their audiences'  26. Decoration          
Washington Blade          attention                 28. Reminiscent of the  
newspaper                 59. "Call or text         Artful Dodger or Fagin  
9. Inhale, so to speak    sometime"                 29. Far from mellifluous
16. Acidic part of a      60. Pile                  30. One who doesn't go  
roll                      61. One may help you      for vanilla, informally 
18. Some concert          read a 30-Across          32. They're often black 
recordings                                          all over                
19. They're not for you   DOWN                      33. Like Interstate 90, 
20. You and I, e.g.                                 but not Interstate 5    
21. Giant villain that    1. Arranger of some       34. Went along of one's 
appears, strangely, in    stand-up tours, for       own Accord?             
"The Lego Batman Movie",  short                     35. Its leaves are used 
informally                2. Tent denizen?          to flavor beef rendang  
22. Fortune subjects'     3. Several dashes, for    37. "Miracle" setting of
holdings, often           short                     1980                    
23. Verbal nod, but with  4. [light bulb emoji]     38. Mic drop from a math
a monocle and top hat     5. "The Godfather" film   prof                    
24. Abbr. between a name  score composer            40. Composer Handel's   
and an alias              6. Judy Garland's dress   given name at birth     
27. Take another chance   in "The Wizard of Oz"     41. Bird wing parts     
on, in a way              and others                45. Fun time            
30. See 61-Across         7. Putting one on is      46. It doesn't occur in 
31. One providing level   deceiving                 a vacuum, ideally       
assessments               8. It's both "the         47. Band with the 4x    
36. What a dull-headed    answer" and "surrender",  platinum album "Love    
mind has, in slang        in John Lennon's "Mind    Deluxe"                 
39. A tower might offer   Games"                    49. Big name in the     
it                        9. Part of a sidewalk     "Sleepless in Seattle"  
40. Flexed things, in     10. The 1893 Columbian    credits                 
slang                     Exposition featured a     51. Red grocery chain   
42. Some say it's meant   reproduction of it        initialism              
to keep you down, with    11. Brand you might       52. "Nothing is going ok
"the"                     choose for after a        right now", for short   
43. _____ Leeds, alias    touchdown                 53. View from Corcovado 
of Marvel supervillain    12. Stage for a dozer     54. Living room tech    
the Hobgoblin             13. Be a prominent part   letters                 
44. Helicopter takeoff    of                        55. Living room tech    
point?                    14. Like faces while      letters                 
45. Something with a bit  telling ghost stories,    56. House after a       
of everything             maybe                     child's birthday party, 
48. Carolina _____        15. Alternative to a      often                   
(certain state symbol)    nudge                   
50. How much you might    17. Didn't follow one's 

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