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From : Northern Realms
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 08:05:08

Freestyle 844 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---------------9---10--11--12-+
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1. Edible        |13-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+14-+---+---+15-+---+---+---|
univalves        |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |
9. Request to    |16-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+17-+---+18-+---+---+---|
take the convo   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
off-thread       |19-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---|
13. One might    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
lead to an       |21-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+22-+---+---+23-+24-+25-|
original         |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |
solution         |---+---+---+26-+27-+28-+29-+30-+31-+---+32-+---+---+---+---|
15. Newbie, in   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |
sports slang     |33-+34-+35-+---+---+---+---+---+---+36-+---+37-+---+---+---|
16. Downers      |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |
don't bring it   |38-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+39-+---+---+---+---|
18. "Please,     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
please,          |40-+---+---+---+---+41-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
please..."       |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
19. "Stop        |42-+---+---+---+43-+---+44-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
teasing me...    |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|
I've never even  |45-+---+---+---+---+46-+---+---+---+---+---+---+47-+48-+49-|
thought about    |   |   |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |
doing that       |---+---+---+50-+---+---+51-+52-+53-+54-+55-+56-+---+---+---|
again!"          |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
21. Traffic-     |57-+58-+59-+---+---+60-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
calming road     |   |   |   |   |]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
stretch          |61-+---+---+---+---+---+62-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
22. Drinking     |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
party, in        |63-+---+---+---+---+---+---+64-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
British slang    |   |   |   |   |]#[|]#[|]#[|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
26. Key for      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
rapid            
advancement               goal celebrations         30. _____ del drama     
32. Introduction from     6. "Jardin de infancia"   (Overemoting type, in   
one putting on 40-Across  attendee                  Spanish)                
33. Bubbly beverage       7. Important place of     31. Don't let alone     
brand                     Christian worship         33. Old-fashioned mud   
37. Death Valley hazard   8. "The leaves they were  shields                 
38. Having ample room     withering and _____"      34. Source of many old  
40. See 32-Across         (Edgar Allan Poe,         laurel wreaths          
41. Taylor Swift's        "Ulalume")                35. Layer where hair    
duettist/co-writer on     9. Secret spot built      follicles are found     
the 2022 hit "Snow on     into many old English     36. Health-related      
the Beach"                homes due to religious    product prefix          
42. One helping to keep   persecution from Queen    39. Its name literally  
a screen house in order?  Elizabeth I               means "snowy", though   
44. Tour guide, often     10. Descend upon en       most of it is desert or 
45. They may need to      masse                     semi-desert: Abbr.      
look out for booms        11. One who took calls    43. 4/10, say           
47. Not one's, maybe      looking for "Oliver       46. "You go on without  
50. "How disappointing!"  Klozoff" and "Mike        me"                     
57. Irritating little     Rotch"                    47. Kind of acid used in
pest, for short           12. Checker of chambers,  table salt manufacturing
60. Very sharp sound,     briefly                   48. Young, fit,         
informally                14. Show on which         attractive guy, in LGBT 
61. Reaction to a         singer/ukulelist Grace    slang                   
touchdown                 VanderWaal rose to fame,  49. PDAs around Hyde    
62. Some guidance in      for short                 Park, say               
life                      17. Sound of a potential  51. What you can call me
63. Awfully big, in the   rescue                    52. "Blood-stained bane 
Big Apple                 20. Entry that I will     of mortals, thou stormer
64. Their competence is   never, ever clue as a     of walls", per the Iliad
questionable              Roman numeral thanks to   53. River from the      
                          Nintendo                  Baikal Mountains to the 
DOWN                      23. "Dame" counterpart,   Laptev Sea              
                          in French                 54. "Since" equivalent  
1. Classic rock hit       24. Line on some bills    on signs                
whose titular character   25. Short and carrying    55. The Southwestern    
is asked, "Where will it  much weight               US's _____ Ski Valley   
lead us from here?"       26. Hostage-taking        56. Layer sometimes     
2. Sources of some        program, of a sort        affected by meningitis  
prints found on           27. No bang on thing,     57. Crack with force    
construction sites        briefly                   58. Short note for short
3. Says in confidence?    28. Weird way to start a  people                  
4. Follow the _____       text conversation         59. Catch in a chase    
(game played by Zeus?)    29. Like spots that     
5. They may punctuate     aren't sparse           

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 * Origin: Northern Realms (618:400/23)

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