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From : Northern Realms
Date : Mon Jun 23 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 854 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3-------4---5---6-------7---8---9---10--11--12--13-+
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1. High bar      |14-+---+---+15-+---+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
members: Abbr.   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
4. "...is        |17-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
frickin'         |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
awesome!",       |19-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
online           |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|
7. Rambo type    |21-+---+---+---+---+22-+23-+24-+---+---+---+---+25-+26-+27-|
14. "Hah... ya   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
like that?!"     |---+28-+---+---+29-+---+30-+---+31-+---+32-+33-+---+---+---|
16. Freak for    |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
"Star Wars",     |---+---+---+34-+---+35-+---+---+---+36-+---+---+---+---+---|
maybe            |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
17. TV shows     |37-+38-+39-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
like "Squid      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Game",           |40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
informally       |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
18. President    |41-+---+---+---+---+---+42-+---+---+---+43-+---+44-+45-+---|
Truman           |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |]#[|
infamously       |46-+---+---+---+---+---+---+47-+---+48-+---+49-+---+---+50-|
wrote that they  |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
"have a          |---+---+51-+52-+53-+54-+55-+---+---+56-+57-+---+---+---+---|
propaganda       |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
machine that is  |58-+59-+---+---+---+---+---+---+60-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
almost equal to  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Stalin's" (he    |61-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
quickly          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
apologized when  |63-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---+65-+---+---|
it went public)  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
19. They may     +-----------------------------------------------------------+
have several     
cameos                    projectiles               of the 2022 documentary 
20. Medieval Catholic     62. Important factor in   "The Disruptors", for   
council site in which     poker betting, often      short                   
Protestant principles     63. They may produce      29. Season controllers, 
were officially           drafts when opened        in ancient myth         
condemned                 64. Planning center?      31. Mother who bore the 
21. Author whence         65. Handle for an old-    child conceived with the
Handel's "Acis and        fashioned driver          Immaculate Conception   
Galatea"                                            32. A little 35-Down    
22. Robbery setting?:     DOWN                      33. Answer to doubt     
Abbr.                                               35. See 32-Down         
25. Its only intl.        1. Request an appearance  36. Dunder Mifflin's was
border is only 45 miles   of at                     #200: Abbr.             
long                      2. One not suited for a   37. Some booby traps,   
28. Sign of life in       ride                      briefly                 
Egypt?                    3. What to avoid with a   38. Aloha, on another   
30. Facebook platform,    hernia                    Pacific island          
for some                  4. Org. with once-        39. Musical that's      
32. Took out from         infamous trailers         "Habit-Forming", per its
underneath                5. Take it to the street  opening number          
34. "...but that's        6. Name that's not quite  44. Declares that one is
hardly the case anymore"  a direction               through                 
37. "Scratch that"        7. "Time to Pretend"      45. Problem for a farmer
40. Principal             band, 2008                48. Test, as a mike     
vocabulary?               8. Parking location,      50. County where the    
41. "Ich _____ sehr"      maybe                     Thames meets the North  
42. Binary modifier?      9. Minimizing descriptor  Sea                     
43. Like food a rabbi is  10. Like kidney donors,   52. A modern one might  
forbidden from eating     sometimes                 require a fingerprint to
46. Part of 30-Across:    11. Uninterrupted ranges  operate                 
Abbr.                     12. Factor in             53. What you might have 
47. In a position to go   coordination              on land: Abbr.          
49. Introducer of a       13. Occasions for biting  54. Like some looks that
basic topic?              nails, for short          need to be wiped off    
51. Sign on many a tree-  15. Full of very          faces                   
lined path                difficult circumstances   55. "Hamilton" numbers? 
56. Places to eat dinner  23. It's good no matter   57. They may have layers
in                        what                      of iceberg              
58. "Look at someone      24. Chocolate drinks      58. Doctor-patient      
else"                     whose brand Keurig now    privilege, e.g., for    
60. Marks higher than     somehow owns              short                   
any other                 26. 1/10 at the start     59. Motion facilitator  
61. Toy that fires round  27. Subject at the heart  60. Man's cousin        

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