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From : Northern Realms
Date : Sun Sep 28 2025 08:05:08

Freestyle 951 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4-------5---6---7-------8---9---10--11--12--13-+
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1. Jacks, say    |14-+---+---+---+---+15-+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---+---+---|
5. St. whose     |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
flagship         |17-+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---+19-+---+---+---+---+---|
university's     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
renowned         |20-+---+---+---+21-+---+---+---+22-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
basketball       |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
program was      |23-+---+---+24-+---+---+25-+---+---+---+26-+---+---+---+---|
founded by       |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|
basketball       |27-+---+---+---+---+---+---+28-+---+29-+---+---+30-+31-+32-|
inventor James   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
Naismith         |---+---+---+33-+---+34-+35-+---+---+---+36-+37-+---+---+---|
8. Makes up, as  |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
10-Down          |38-+39-+40-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
14. Popular      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
website to find  |41-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
home             |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
improvement      |42-+---+---+---+---+43-+---+---+---+---+44-+---+45-+46-+47-|
pros             |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
15. Ending       |---+---+48-+49-+50-+---+51-+---+52-+---+53-+---+---+---+---|
preferred for    |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
residents of     |54-+55-+---+---+---+56-+---+---+---+57-+---+---+58-+---+---|
Wisconsin and    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |
Wyoming          |59-+---+---+---+---+---+---+60-+---+---+---+61-+---+---+---|
16. Prompt to    |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
fill in the      |62-+---+---+---+---+---+---+63-+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---|
blank?           |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
17. Seriously    |65-+---+---+---+---+---+---+66-+---+---+---+67-+---+---+---|
sacrifice one's  |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
morals, say      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
19. "Save        
yourself the trouble"     59. One wrapped around    humans are very rarely  
20. Its Wikipedia         your finger               fatal                   
article is entertaining   60. Unnecessary sentence  22. Knocks down,        
for both ornithologists   ending                    casually                
and immature teenagers    62. Making safe           24. It's far from the   
to read                   judgements, perhaps       majors, informally      
21. "If I may say         63. Had a point on        29. Pooch with a mopped 
something about that      64. Unusual reply to      coat                    
charge..."                "What did you win in      31. It's not one "if you
23. "It pains me to       Vegas?"                   believe it", per George 
deliver this..."          65. Responses that you    Costanza                
25. It's harder to do in  scroll through quickly,   32. Size of many jams:  
the dark                  maybe                     Abbr.                   
26. End for many an       66. What a peach may      34. Like a schoolmarm   
occupation                stand for                 35. Things made to      
27. "The Girl from        67. Where bowlers might   elicit sympathy         
Ipanema", e.g.            hang                      36. They can be stared  
28. One of many going                               37. Tell the truth      
through wires?            DOWN                      38. Emphatic two        
30. Not up for doing                                39. Dragnet activator,  
much, say                 1. French liqueur         briefly                 
33. "Damn straight        similar to ouzo           40. Maps and such       
that's what I am!"        2. Modern militant group  45. Little mass         
38. One assisting on an   3. Capturer's shout       46. Common atmospheric  
appeal, maybe             4. See 48-Across          phenomenon in Alaskan   
41. Flasher in a studio   5. Pot cooker             winters                 
42. Many an officer       6. They take a lot of     47. Taking events       
holds one, briefly        effort to smash           49. Place that Alanis   
43. Ailment for which     7. Ball-watching ball     Morissette thanks in her
the FDA first approved    8. Resusci _____ (CPR     hit song "Thank U"      
vaccines in 2023,         training doll whose name  50. A fan may feel it   
briefly                   inspired a lyric in       after a brutal defeat   
44. Order to go           "Smooth Criminal")        52. What some behavior  
48. "Bom _____"           9. Complete dummies,      can be ascribed to      
(Greeting in 4-Down)      facetiously               54. Inform, with "in"   
51. Something used in a   10. See 8-Across          55. They take away from 
search for seizures,      11. Say the name of       plays                   
briefly                   12. Potentially           56. Things cracked from 
53. Midnight on January   dangerous cloud           the inside or the       
1, 1970, for Unix time    13. Popular "sophisti-    outside                 
54. Adopts a new          pop" band of the          57. Sweetens the pot    
strategy on the fly       1980s-90s                 with                    
58. Any of three          18. Despite common        61. Art that often uses 
"divided" parts           belief, its attacks on    brushes                 

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