Subj : Yesterday's Crossword Solution
To   : All
From : Northern Realms
Date : Tue Jul 08 2025 08:05:06

Freestyle 868 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4-------5---6---7-------8---9---10--11--12-----+
                 | R | S | V | P |]#[| B | B | W |]#[| A | W | O | L | S |]#[|
1. Aid in        |13-+---+---+---+---+14-+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---+---+16-|
planning a       | U | N | I | T |]#[| O | A | R |]#[| S | T | R | A | T | I |
party, in a way  |17-+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+19-+---+---+---+---+---|
5. "Pleasingly   | H | O | E | S |]#[| A | B | E |]#[| T | O | A | M | A | N |
plump" gal, for  |20-+---+---+---+---+21-+---+---+22-+---+---+23-+---+---+---|
short            | R | O | N |]#[|]#[| R | U | N | T | O |]#[| N | I | T | S |
8. They're gone  |24-+---+---+25-+26-+---+27-+---+---+---+28-+---+---+---+---|
from their       | O | K | N | O | W |]#[| S | S | H |]#[| E | G | R | E | T |
13-Across        |29-+---+---+---+---+30-+---+---+31-+32-+---+---+33-+---+---|
13. See          | H | I | A | L | E | A | H |]#[| A | S | A |]#[| A | G | O |
8-Across         |---+---+---+34-+---+---+---+35-+---+---+---+36-+---+---+---|
14. What a       |]#[|]#[|]#[| M | A | R | K | E | T | T | R | A | D | E | R |
bowman wields    |37-+38-+39-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
15.              | P | O | K | E | R | H | A | L | L | O | F | F | A | M | E |
Meteorological   |40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
features from    | G | L | A | C | I | A | L | F | L | O | U | R |]#[|]#[|]#[|
the Latin for    |41-+---+---+---+42-+---+---+---+43-+---+---+---+44-+45-+46-|
"layers"         | A | D | L |]#[| E | T | A |]#[| S | P | L | I | T | I | T |
17. Certain      |47-+---+---+48-+---+---+49-+50-+---+---+51-+---+---+---+---|
weed killers     | P | L | E | B | S |]#[| D | A | H |]#[| S | N | A | F | U |
18. Five image   |52-+---+---+---+---+53-+---+---+---+54-+---+---+55-+---+---|
19. Not just     | R | I | C | A |]#[| M | Y | G | O | D |]#[|]#[| B | O | N |
80% or 90%       |56-+---+---+---+57-+---+---+58-+---+---+---+59-+---+---+---|
20. Name that's  | O | N | H | I | R | E |]#[| A | W | E |]#[| C | O | N | N |
also a doo wop   |60-+---+---+---+---+---+---+61-+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---|
syllable         | S | E | I | Z | E | D |]#[| M | E | N |]#[| R | U | L | E |
21. Are in all   |---+63-+---+---+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---+65-+---+---+---|
23. Targets for  |]#[| S | P | E | C | S |]#[| E | M | T |]#[| T | T | Y | L |
the detail-      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
oriented, to     
say the least             60. Took hard?            modern-day Tabasco      
24. "Here's the deal..."  61. What 8 of the 12      26. Flags               
27. "Don't wanna hear     face cards represent      28. Drill sergeants     
it"                       62. Parental guidance     often give them         
28. Cattle _____ (tick-   63. Focusing aids         30. Buddhist who has    
eating bird)              64. One may be waiting    grasped the true nature 
29. Miami-area city in    for a crash               of existence            
which over 95% of the     65. Closer to chatting?   32. Get shorter, in a   
residents speak Spanish                             way                     
at home                   DOWN                      35. The Erlking of      
31. The American cousin                             European folklore, e.g. 
in "Our American Cousin"  1. "There's big trouble   36. Nosebleed-treating  
33. Opposite of           here," facetiously        brand                   
"henceforth"              2. "Confessions of a      37. They're sometimes   
34. One may be wishing    Guidette" author          chipping in             
for spikes                3. City that "waits for   38. They used to help   
37. Its members may have  you" in a fan-favorite    with picking people up  
made their living in      Billy Joel song           39. Snack item that     
Omaha                     4. Spread units: Abbr.    might have curled-up    
40. Fine-grained rock     5. Cause of Adonis'       edges                   
particles ground down by  demise, in Greek myth     44. Switch away from a  
a kind of erosion         6. Mysterious camera-     computer program        
41. Jewish legal org.     wielding woman at the     45. Wistful lament      
42. Point at which one    JFK assassination, named  46. Product of boring   
might come in, briefly    for what she was wearing  work                    
43. "Let's go halfway"    7. Gnatcatchers' kin      48. Fabric often used   
47. Inexperienced         8. "When we're talking    for craps and blackjack 
fighters?                 about..."                 tables                  
49. Longer of two tones   9. International grp.     50. What you need to    
51. Scene of much         whose treaty is the       bring to beat good teams
disorderly conduct?       Agreement on Agriculture  53. You should only take
52. Like "una             10. Malaysian "man of     them if they're already 
multimillonaria"          the forest"               yours                   
53. "The horror!"         11. Los Angeles suburb    54. Thing commonly      
55. A _____ compte        whose name means "the     pulled from a body      
(cheaply, in Cherbourg)   view"                     57. It can refer to     
56. Ready for work        12. Sparkler on the       "play" or a button near 
58. Reason for gasping    books                     "play"                  
59. Home of the univ.     16. Not online            59. Old RCA product     
known as the "Basketball  22. "So there!"         
Capital of the World"     25. Ancient native in   

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